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[–] NeilBru@lemmy.world 2 points 36 minutes ago
[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 39 minutes ago (1 children)

Not completely accurate, for some reason a lot of this started in 1971 (feel free to blame Nixon)

[–] NeilBru@lemmy.world 2 points 35 minutes ago* (last edited 33 minutes ago)

We've seen the same website!

Margaret Thatcher was also a cancerous windbag as well, in a long tradition of malefic pustules from the ruling class of those islands.

[–] night_petal@piefed.social 1 points 1 hour ago

This is fair, but there needs to be a lot more hockey sticks in this graph.

[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 12 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

The labels on this one are horrific.

[–] MoffKalast@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Reagan repealed the graph label law in 1987, making it legal to create graphs with shitty labels so that the free market can decide which ones it wants to look at.

[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 hours ago

Make shit worse and claim the markets will fix it is indeed peak Reagan.

[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 23 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

This let's Nixon off far too easy.

[–] Monstrosity@lemmy.today 2 points 2 hours ago

They voted for Regan overwhelmingly just four years after the Republican Nixon fiasco.

[–] shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works 25 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] inari@piefed.zip 3 points 6 hours ago

He's right behind Gandhi and Einstein

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 10 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

We have the same in the UK but it's Thatcher

Why did those two have to come along at the same time

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 1 points 47 minutes ago

They were two of the horsemen... I mean horsepeople of apocalypse. Who were the others?

[–] lefaucet@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 hours ago
[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

If Jodie Foster had put it in a little more effort maybe we wouldn't be dealing with this.