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PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I’m glad you’re honest about social security and new deal policies.

Then I’m sorry to disappoint because it’s not fair to attribute such beliefs to me, particularly about the new deal policies, which led to the idealized American past that modern folks pine after, when I didn’t mention them.

But since you brought 'em up, we should definitely double down on the new deal policies rather than continue to role them back. Lina Khan’s renewed anti-trust efforts are a good, strong first step, but we definitely need way more.

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wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

which led to the idealized American past that modern folks pine after, when I didn’t mention them. I don’t think many people idolize the great depression. WW2 ended the great depression.

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- PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  WW2 ended the great depression.
  
  TIL. There’s an obvious question though of whether the economic demand of hunting Nazis ended the great depression or some other economic or social policies or a combo of several.
  
  I guess there’s no way we’ll ever know.
  
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  - wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    TIL. There’s an obvious question though of whether the economic demand of hunting Nazis ended the great depression or some other economic or social policies or a combo of several. We do know the New Deal extended the depression. reason.org/…/fdr-policies-doubled-the-lengt/#:~:t….
    
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    PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Well hot damn! I looked up that paper and, unlike a lot of right-wing news sources, it’s real and says what it say you say it says.
    
    Still though, another resource I use complicates the conclusion of that paper. So, okay, I’ll admit that the New Deal’s economic effects were complicated. Maybe it didn’t lead to the best economic times in America? It obviously couldn’t have been the war because the war ended. Maybe the war gave it a sort of start…but what was actually sustained until the 1970s?
    
    TIL x2, and I stand corrected again. Every time, I just gonna make a link to the last time I was corrected in this community, because why not.
    
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