• Tiral@lemmy.world
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      19 hours ago

      I think MAGA is more about returning the US back to the 50s and 60s. When people were more modest and had some level of common sense. Although that also includes more religious tards. But even if you were socially kinda shamed for weird shit, you weren’t beat and jailed. They’d find other things to jail you for that you didn’t so instead.

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        The root of MAGA’s nostalgia for the 1950s is the effective US corporate tax rate being 40-50% rather than the 2010s’s 10-15%. Those higher taxes paid for healthcare, anti-trust enforcement which increased wages across the board, general public services. Instead, money that corporations would have spent on taxes goes into bribes for regulatory capture, helping depress wages and facilitate monopolistic mergers and acquisitions. Quick overview of historic tax rates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_tax_in_the_United_States

      • 0xDREADBEEF@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        9 hours ago

        You think MAGA would be against publicly caning ethnic minorities or LGBTQ people or socialists or democrats or women? Remember, MAGA thinks Renee Good is an antifa terrorist.

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        Huh? It was literally illegal to be gay in the 50s and 60s. Police raided gay bars. Black folks were segregated and arrested for violations. Women also didn’t have social mobility. There’s a reason that the media that came out in the 50s depicting the societal restriction on women was popular, especially The Stepford Wives.

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        You had an acceptable view of things, right up until the second to last sentence. People were absolutely beat and jailed for “obscene” behavior, including just being gay. But maybe that is what you mean with common sense.

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        19 hours ago

        Back when women were property and minorities got lynched every weekend.