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thucythucy

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8. There was also AIDS, which the Reagan administration handled
Sun Jun 15, 2025, 02:25 PM
Jun 15

about as well as Trump handled Covid, even worse in some ways. The gay community was devastated--also the community of people with hemophilia.

And then too the struggles of disabled people to escape the institutions built by older generations. They literally had to conceive of and build independent living options from the ground up.

And I would love to see this writer explain how Black Americans had so much wonderful opportunity just handed to them.

If Social Security is threatened now it's in large part because of all the boomer bashing the media has been pushing now for years.

Divide and conquer has always been how oligarchs get their way.

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