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[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 85 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I dunno. I kinda consider 9/11 to be the shifting point. That’s when racism came roaring back and also the introduction of the Patriot Act. The 2008 crash was just the solidification of the shit show to come.

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The LA race riots and Clintons going on about "super-predators" would like a word with you about racism going away in the 90's

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Didn’t say that it wasn’t there. Just that it got a lot worse after 9/11 and the following years.

[–] SippyCup@feddit.nl 20 points 1 month ago

9/11 was a pretext for doing what they wanted to do anyway. Kind of like how the Olympics in LA was the pretext they needed to militarize the police there.

Finding a pretext isn't hard, but sometimes events outside of your control just kinda hand one to you.

[–] dzsimbo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago

I've heard that the high tide was end of WW II. Sloping exponentially downwards, with the occasional oil boom or bust.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The 2008 crash was also the result of Greenspan and Bush’s 0% interest rate bullshit that prevented savings and ruined the housing market while starting wars to avoid smaller correctional recessions. 9/11 was the excuse, so I kinda caused all this, in a way.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] save_the_humans@leminal.space 2 points 1 month ago

So it was an inside job!

[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Guys, guys. We all know the true inflection point. Harambe.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm starting to think having my dick out this whole time hasn't been working.

[–] Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 month ago

Its working for me....

[–] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 6 points 1 month ago

Just imagine how much worse things would have been if we hadn’t

Dicks out everyone.