I hope one day that history looks back on ronald reagan as one of the 20th century’s most vile and disgusting serial killers
may i ask why
Remember when like 6 Americans had ebola and it was an international emergency, and Obama flew out to meet survivors? Here is a list of things the United States government did in response: -Increasing the number of Ebola testing labs throughout the U.S. that can quickly and safely screen a potential Ebola specimen
-Educating more than 150,000 health care workers on how to identify, isolate, diagnose, and care for patients under investigation for Ebola
-Developing countermeasures — including the first Ebola vaccine to progress to Phase 2 testing — to prevent and treat Ebola
-Converting at least 10 of the Ebola Treatment Centers into long-term Regional Ebola and Pandemic Treatment Centers for long-term readiness for years to come
-Helping state and local public health systems accelerate and improve their operational readiness and preparedness for Ebola or other infectious diseases
Source: https://whitehouse.gov/ebola-response
When the Reagan administration was faced with tens of thousands of gay men dying, they did nothing. They made jokes. They laughed. They caused an epidemic that killed 40 million people, because they hated gay men and thought we deserved to die.
There is so much more to it. There is a myth perpetuated by Reaganites that he was an historically significant President, in some positive sense. If you are old enough to have voted in 1980, you probably know differently. If you were born after 1980 you have been raised on this myth. He sold Americans a fable about a Hollywood movie-like exceptional past and destiny, and led ordinary people around with portrayals of that mirage while his reactionary robber-baron friends set about dismantling 50 years of progressive advancements for working men and women, on their way to returning themselves to the position of unfettered economic domination they held between the Civil War and the Great Depression. He was a union buster. He gave us Scalia – need I say more? He tried to give us Robert Bork (does anyone under 30 even know who he is?). He lied about Iran/Contra. He avoided dealing with AIDS. He sealed the political sham-show between right wing capitalist kings and the evangelical thought-control snake-oil salesmen. Americans don’t want to hear that they are ordinary citizens of the world, and they don’t want to hear that the aren’t anointed by some deity to lead the world to salvation. They lapped it up, and they continue to do so.
I have to wonder how the response of a more competent presidency to the AIDS crisis might have changed even the global impact of the disease. Where might we be today? How many millions of people would be alive and not suffering? Yes, Reagan was historically significant—for fucking things up in a globally devastating way.
When you hear how he slashed Income taxes, he did on the Wealthy, but he increased the lowest taxrate from 10% to 15%.
His campaign was funded by Christian radicals, whose entire goal was to dismantle Roe vs. Wade and see American women relegated once more to back alleys and dirty knives. He opened the door to religion in politics in a way the postwar McCarthyists never dreamed possible. Now, 36 years after his election, maybe a third of American medical schools offer proper access to even first-trimester abortion training (in an era where that should mean a pill or vaginal suppository), and there are currently fewer doctors trained to perform late stage abortions for the entire US than there were pre-RvW (when such operations were only performed as a heroic measure).
And no one has even touched on his legacy of racial hatred, deliberate destruction of black communities and establishing of COONTELPRO to destroy the lives of black panthers and black activists, his actual murder of black activists and more. He was actually a demon.
If you want to know how many lives could have been saved if the Reagan government had just fucking BUDGETED for AIDS research instead of telling AIDS researchers that they had to beg, borrow or steal any money for AIDS from other programs–then read And The Band Played On:
Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edition
by Randy Shilts. And be prepared to have your heart broken at the unadulterated and wildly irresponsible waste.of time and human lives.
After Ronald Reagan was elected in 1981, U.S. funding of the mujahideen increased significantly and CIA Paramilitary Officers played a big role in training, arming and sometimes even leading mujahideen forces.
The CIA trained the mujahideen in many of the tactics Al Qaeda is known for today, such as car bombs, assassinations and other acts that would be considered terrorism today.
// honestly though. do not trust people who do not rp with female muses. do not trust people who throw constant shade at female muses. do not trust people who degrade female muses. do not trust people who put female characters on a lower level just so that they can bring up a male character.
do not trust people who are shitty about female muses.
Hate when people talk shit about Anna from Frozen for wanting to marry Hans right away, like, listen, this girl has lost her parents and been basically ignored by her only sibling, what can you expect her to do when being shown some type of love and attention after she’s basically been lonely for like 3 years.
I know right. I can totally understand why she did it. She must have felt like she had no other chose.
She also thought she only had a day to find “the one”. She says it herself: “I know it all ends tomorrow, so it has to be today”. She probably felt like she had to move fast before all this - the party, potential friends/a partner - were taken away again.
It should also be mentioned that Hans is the one who brought up marriage first, not Anna. Anna doesn’t mention wanting to get married so soon - just that she meets this “beautiful stranger” and they “laugh and talk all evening”. And said marriage proposal comes right after a scene where she feels like she’s found a connection with Hans after being shut out by the only family she has left. I can’t say I agree with her decision, but I can understand why she did it.
What I hate the most is people victim blaming Anna and not seeing that Hans was a manipulative man who “played” Anna for his own gain
Actually, Anna was lonely for a lot longer than just 3 years - the King and Queen would have been far too busy to spend much time with her.
In fact, because children of the upper classes were usually raised by a nanny or governess, and only saw their parents for about an hour before bedtime, Anna would have barely even known her parents.
Elsa was placed in isolation immediately after the incident, so their parents probably got her her own nanny/governess/teacher (sworn to silence about her power), leaving Anna alone during the day. Elsa and Anna also were split up and given separate bedrooms, leaving Anna alone at night.
The King and Queen also probably spent most of “parent - child bonding hour” with Elsa, as Elsa was the heir, and their main concern/priority. Anna, as the “spare” child (royals generally have an heir and a spare), would have been less of a priority for them, especially because she was “normal”, and younger - less likely to inherit the throne.
This would have meant Anna would have had fewer lessons than Elsa - especially concerning how to recognize a political/social enemy, or anyone trying to manipulate or use her. Fewer lessons also means more free time, and once she was older, Anna was likely told to entertain herself. Alone.
During the head-ice incident scene, Anna looks to be about 4 years old. I’ll be generous, and say she’s 5.
So, from the age of 4 or 5, the only REAL company that Anna had was her nanny/governess. But even the nanny/governess would have just been another authority figure, despite still being a servant, and Anna wasn’t with her nanny all the time.
Anna is 18 when Elsa’s coronation happens. For 13/14 years, she was essentially alone. She had no playmates or peers, only superiors and servants, and a sister who vanished when they were tiny. She would have never learned how to interact with people who are her equal, nor how to actually recognize someone trying to manipulate her.
Hans was the first person outside the castle who paid any real attention to Anna. OF COURSE she would cling to his “friendship/love”. OF COURSE she would brush aside any concerns she or Elsa had about him.
She was desperate for affection and company. Anna was probably the most vulnerable person in the room when she met Hans.
Hans saw that, and used her. That’s on Hans, not Anna. He deliberately chose her as his victim.
for writing pretty much what I wanted to say. I’m just.going to add, people always forget that the parents LOCKED EVERYONE OUT OF THE PALACE AND THE GIRLS IN THE PALACE after the head ice incident. Yes they have servants, but it’s the same servants they had when Anna was four years old. Which means that the only other person in the palace anywhere close to Anna’s age is her sister who ignores her. Anna grows up with no friends and no company and has to make do with dreams and make believe and stories.
The coronation party was the ONE DAY peiple from outside the palace would be let in, before elsa locked them all out again. It was the ONE DAY Anna had to actually meet people her own age and her being an imaginative romantic saw it is her one chance at love.
Precisely!
I missed my bus to work this morning because I was typing this instead of getting dressed lol.
“A chance to change my lonely world” is pretty much Anna’s life summed up right from the beginning in FTFTIF! and in the broadway version it’s “a chance to LEAVE my lonely world” and they place the emphasis on her finding true love, the one thing she’s always been denied by the people who should actively accept and cherish her— her family.
