Anon opines on a clown named Ronald

[pictured: Ronald Reagan wearing a black suit and tie with a white shirt. His body is nearly turned sideways, chin lifted and grinning at the camera, resting his weight on his right elbow with his left hand clasped loosely over his resting right wrist. Italicized text upon this propaganda poster reads: “RONALD REAGAN speaks out against SOCIALIZED MEDICINE”]

a c-list actor's career flopped so now I have to pay $1000 to set foot in an ambulance
any other examples like this?

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any other examples like this?
A WWI veteran got kicked out of art school and now Israel is bombing Palestinians.
- I don't think he was kicked out, he just never got in.
- Jesus..
  
  Jesus…
  An unfertilized egg was forced into existence by an angry deity and now TikTok.
  
  Nah he was in Palestine back when it was under a different foreign occupation.
- Hitler is to be blamed for a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot of gnarly shit, but I think there's been fighting going over on in the Middle-East a bit before him.
  
  Technically, yeah. It went downhill when the Ottoman joined WW1 and lost.
- Came here for this.
- you know this is not the worst thing to happen to humanity because hitler couldn't cut it as an artist
- There was always plans to move Jews, or for the Jews to regain their land. Imagine if there was another 6 million trying to inhabit that land.
  
  Jesus Christ. Only on Lemmy, lol.
An old lady refused to retire before she died so now cops can stop me if they suspect I'm pregnant.
- An old lady with terminal cancer
  
  But she works out!
- Ask Justice Garland how that would've changed anything.
- What does this refer to? Genuinely don't know.
A C-List actors career flopped, now I have to pay 30% of my check in taxes so the ultra wealthy can go tax free in the hopes that their prosperity with reflect positively on me, instead of just making them ritcher as they horde their wealth.
- A c list actor’s career flopped and now the state he was governor of catches fire of a regular basis
  
  California has had regular fires since forever. Literally part of the life cycle in some areas.
  https://www.coastal.ca.gov/fire/ucsbfire.html
Wrestling moderator had to legalise bankrupt shady business practices of his, American rule of law now under scrutiny
Castillian second-row aristocracy ran out of land to conquer, wiped out half a double-continent.
Pirates sack ship with proposal about measurement units, spaceship crashes hundreds of years later.
Some Englishman invents a machine, climate dies.
Patent bureau clerk discovers science to overkill humanity, build cameras/solar cells and dictates speed of light as speed limit to everyone
Army command sends rebellious guy to enemy state in a train package, link aggregator gets build.
- I'll give it a try.
  Wrestling moderator had to legalise bankrupt shady business practices of his, American rule of law now under scrutiny
  I have to pass on this one. Trump has dabbled in wrestling but not as a moderator? Other shady wrestling personalities have dabbled in politics, but not with much effect?
  Castillian second-row aristocracy ran out of land to conquer, wiped out half a double-continent.
  This is about the conquistadores, the Spanish and Portuguese fighters who devastated South America. The "spanish" had spent centuries (re-)conquering the Iberian Peninsula. Aristocrats are warlords. If they don't inherit wealth, they have to earn it through fighting in war.
  Pirates sack ship with proposal about measurement units, spaceship crashes hundreds of years later.
  At least 1 space probe has crashed because of failures to convert between metric and some regionally used unit. Metric was, as everyone knows, invented during and by the French Revolution.
  I had to look up the pirate thing. Snopes rates it as false: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/metric-system-pirates/
  Some Englishman invents a machine, climate dies.
  James Watt, inventor of the steam engine. That, more or less, kicked off the age of fossil fuels.
  Patent bureau clerk discovers science to overkill humanity, build cameras/solar cells and dictates speed of light as speed limit to everyone
  Albert Einstein. He made physicists understand that there was a lot of boom in nuclear reactions with his famous E=mc^2. He also explained the photoelectric effect. But I think the speed limit thing is Emmy Noether, an absolutely badass woman.
  Army command sends rebellious guy to enemy state in a train package, link aggregator gets build.
  Lenin. He was in exile in Switzerland. During WW1, when things were revolutionary but Russia was still fighting Germany, the german army let him travel through their territory in a sealed wagon to Russia, so that he would knock Russia out of the war.
- I think I know some of these, but can we get an answer sheet?
- Wait what's the last one about?
  
  Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
- Pirates sack ship with proposal about measurement units, spaceship crashes hundreds of years later.
  ... god dammit, I hate how real this one is.
B-list actor refuses to take a car ride with US president.
Now the second best army in the world is on day 814 of a 3 day war. Putin has less tanks, jets and hair than when he started 3 years ago and they've achieve exactly 0 of their stated objectives.
- Sorry I just woke up what was the initial even you’re referring to?
  
  When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, the US offered to extract president Zelenskyy(actor turned president) and form a government in exile because everyone thought Ukraine would fall in mere weeks. Zelenskyy refused, stating he needed ammunition not a ride. Back then Russia was believed to have a near-peer military to the US.
  And here we are now.
For bigger-pictures examples of this, I think you're looking for the TV series, Connections, hosted by James Burke. It's old but still VERY good.
Each episode started with James Burke showing you something cool, and tracing how it got here/got that way, often in unusual circumstances.
"I'm standing next to a nuclear reactor. This single building generates power for the city below, 50,000 people. And today every one of them would be sitting in the dark, or at a pitiful small fireplace, if it weren't for an Italian peasant whose mother forbade him to play the lute, in 1032."
- Reminds me of the "WWI started over a sandwich" thing
  
  I had to look up the sandwich thing. Nope, these are all true, meticulously explained as the program progresses, sources quoted, everything.
- The first episode's a little weird, but the rest are fantastic.
  The sequel series are never quite as good. Especially when he gets into futurism and opens each episode with "Konichiwa." I forget what year that series was allegedly looking back from, but I'll bet we're past it.
The grandson of an amateur naturalist rejects the church, and hooks up with a Southern Chicago native, resulting in a breach of intricate personal human data the scope of which could be disastrous.
A boy nicks a ticket punch from a bus operator, and now I have to attend mandatory training on social engineering.
Someone figured out how to store electricity in rocks, and now democracy is being threatened by liars
- Care to elaborate on point one?
  
  Watson and Crick ends with the breach at 23andMe
Some dude miscalculated the year Jesus was born and now we're stuck using the resulting calendar centuries later
- A Roman Emperor joined a Levantine cult, and now you can't get an abortion because the Supreme Court makes decisions based on Near Eastern mythology from the Iron Age.
  
  To be fair, part of the popularity of the cult was that women were being forced to perform 4th trimester abortions by the pagan religions.
  
  Bronze age, really. Though some bits might predate that.
- I think unfortunately the "illuminati" is a lot more boring than that. It's just a group of career ladder climbers hell bent on staying close to power and/or those who wield it.
  We like to think the only people that would do something like that would be evil men and women part of secret societies with global ambitions but it's just these greedy fuckers who need validation in a way none of us could ever dream of.
  
  It's just a group of career ladder climbers hell bent on staying close to power and/or those who wield it.
  evil men and women part of secret societies with global ambitions
  These two things are not mutually exclusive.
  Those ladder climbers are evil people who are part of (not so secret) societies like the International Monetary Fund and the World Economic Forum, which have global ambitions that can be accurately summed up as "get rich and fuck the poors".
- What nation is that? I thought this was about Ronald Reagan from US.
- You should probably need at least a little bit more proof than that....
  
  That's exactly what an illuminati would say.
  
  What about two dumb-ass actors? Granted, one barely acted (or did anything successful), but he was in home alone.
What's always surprising to me is that he's a former union president who went on to be one of the most anti-union figures in US history.
- It was 8 months into his presidency. The air traffic controllers across the nation were threatening to strike, an act that might have crippled the struggling economic recovery. Reagan seemed to be willing to work with them if they agreed not to strike, but warned that-as federal employees-he would fire them if they did strike.
  They went out and he fired them. It is my opinion that this confrontation soured his view of unions and set and adversarial tone between them and Reagan that lasted for his two terms. Anti-union sentiment rocketed and many businesses copied Reagan's actions to devastating consequence on families and laborers.
  This is not a defense of Reagan. It is just the perception of an old man who was alive and voting (for Carter) in those days. I would like to know if the replacement union for the disbanded PATCO ever managed to a) get the newly hired air traffic controllers a raise or b) a reduction in weekly hours.
- Some people think ingroup hierarchy is the only force in the universe. Nothing is real unless someone above you says so.
  When these people switch teams, they don't answer for the excuses they made up for past conclusions, and they don't understand why anyone should.
A paid-entry shitpost forum kicked out anime nerds and a fascist mob stormed the US capitol.
I created a Lemmy account just to answer this...
2,000+ years ago a historian wrote a poem and now your mail carrier has to risk life and limb to deliver mail in blizzards/hurricanes/etc.
- Welcome!
also
pictured: Ronald Reagan squinting at an America flag with fake pride. The text reads: "Will we give the Nicaraguan democratic resistance the means to recapture their betrayed revolution?"
a c-list actor’s career flopped so now...
we have gang violence, draconian and ineffective drug laws, the world's largest prison population (per capita and absolute), mass shooters, and a paramilitary force for a police system.
- I feel like you’re one of the few who read the picture description. Did it feel as smarmy as I intended? I’m not sure of the details vision impaired folks pick up on as smarmy.
  
  yeah, I was cracking up 😆
The moral of this story is that you should do whatever you can to help the career of a certain esteemed Academy Award nominated character actress (who didn't get nominated this year😢) so this doesn't happen.
"Barbie", now available on Blu-ray and select streaming services.
Two thousand years ago this hippie guy protested against a brutal empire and now women aren't allowed to have abortions for some fucking reason.
His career didn't really flop? He was pretty famous.
- So is Tommy Wiseau

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