Neil E. HodgesTIL #Trump is just #Reagen 2.0. (Thread)
tk: What if the past wasn't actually better? What if we only prefer it because we are certain of our memories of it, and are afraid of the uncertainty of the present and future?
tk: I feel like @[email protected] and @[email protected] would appreciate this line of thought.
vriska: yeah I agree with this pretty much 100%, the past sucked ass too, it just feels better cuz we don't remember/didn't experience it.
vriska: the only real difference is that back then you weren't enslaved by consumer capitalism/americanism and no devil machines were in our pockets
tk: > you weren't enslaved by consumer capitalism/americanism
I feel like the US still was back then.
vriska: not until reagan tbh
tk: Everything comes back to him.
I wonder if he was simply a puppet like how Trump was.
vriska: well, he was a dipshit actor with zero experience who developed a cult of personality...
tk: Same shit, different name?
vriska: so it would seem!
tk: Feels kind of gross when people today praise Reagan.
vriska: hes one of the most evil men in modern history tbh