What are some films that show the greatness of Reagan's America?
Back to the Future
oh the deluded american exceptionalism of right wing revisionist history
Family Ties
Boyz in the Hood
Dementia
>>62935808
/r/bernie is that way
Almost every American film from the 80s
>that optimism
>that self respect instead of modern day kekoldry
American Psycho
BTTF
Rocky 4
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Weekend at Bernie's
Ghostbusters
>>62935896
Doesn't everyone agree with that pic? The problem is that not everyone is able to compete.
>>62935808
>revisionist
Spies Like Us
>>62935987
The majority isn't always right, bruh.
>>62935751
>>62935902
Soon again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb9OdVxqIaA
>that first comment
>>62935808
I agree fellow marxist-leninist, those right-wing bigots need to accept that Mao and Stalin did nothing wrong!
>>62935902
>that optimism
>he doesn't know the Hollywood Hills were white with cocaine that entire decade
>>62936009
They were in the 80s "bruh"
>>62935960
Capitalism is nature.
Nature is fair, but it ain't equal.
I want to live in the 80's
They Live
>>62935987
BRB. Going to fap to this picture.
Also, for future reference, porn isn't allowed on the blue boards.
>>62936077
But what about the Canadians?
Or do they not count as foreign?
>>62936045
>puts bruh in quotes
>>62935902
>Optimism
Opposite, it was pure unbridled Pessimism that pushed that decade. A big party in the face of an impending nuclear apocalypse. A time when all of America expected a Happening.
>>62936037
>Ledger Joker was high on Joan of Arc
>>62936098
>"In our time"
>>62935751
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God%27s_Country_(1985_film)
>>62936085
This desu senpai
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgl4tXO6nQQ
>>62935751
Robocop
They Live
>What are some films that show the greatness of Reagan's America?
Here are three you might like:
Guns, Drugs, and the CIA: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpoahXzt-lM
The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28K2CO-khdY
Behind the Iran Contra Affair: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QOlMo9dAATw
>>62935808
>implying 80's wasn't a great time to be white middle class
Fuck off, you lib cocksucker.
>>62936202
>Obama does the exact same thing running guns and drugs for the cartels and everyone tries and pretends it didn't happen....
>>62936202
I want that on a tshirt
>>62936236
Meant for the guy with the bleeding heart anti-gipper links.
>>62935751
>>62936253
wut
This is more interesting than it is helpful since we can't know for sure what Ronnie thought of these films, but here's a list of every one he watched while in office. http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/reference/filmsviewed.html
>>62936236
>>62936263
lol why you mad bro?
>>62936202
So Reagan came up with all of those ideas on his own? And he was an evil racist? Good to know that you see the world in such black and white terms. Everything is left vs right, isn't it?
>>62936276
Operation Fast & Furious
Also arming ISIS.
>>62936253
>no one is critical of Obama
are you stupid or just putting your faith in The Big Lie?
>>62936317
It's not as broadcasted as much and you damn well know it.
Reagen was the worst President in the last 100 YEARS
A fucking traitorous senile puppet that nearly destroyed the country
>>62936297
>Reagan didn't know what was going on
>Reagan didn't authorize any of this
>Reagan was surrounded by men pursuing their own agenda without any authority
Incompetence is not a defense
>>62936331
>news media represent "dur left"
>>62936297
Management doesn't work by the guy at the top telling his underlings "go do X, Y, Z"
He tells them "this is a problem, fix it" or "we need to do something about it"
And makes sure to give these orders to people who will carry it out in a particular way
He had been engaging in this autocratic shit back when he was Governor of California with things like the California Specialized Training Institute over a decade earlier so don't tell me he was senile and didn't know by then
>>62936332
>tfw the country will always love Reagan because of his positive message but he was a total mess
>America will continue hating Nixon even though he was a very good president who just got caught with one very lame crime
>tfw in 2045 this thread will be made about President The Donald instead
>>62936399
They dont, he's been the most reviled former president
Ronnies shining glory is a PR campaign of the rightwing media to prop up the economic agendas begun under him
>>62936354
Never mentioned "news media", but if I did I'd still be right seeing how the ONLY Conservative news organization is Fox.
How can you even argue that the news media isn't overwhelmingly Left leaning?
>>62936297
>It wasn't me, it was the people under me! I know nothing! Nothing!
How would that fly at Nuremberg do you suppose?
![Inceome-Growth-GraphD9A8ED[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/rTpbvuX.jpg "Inceome-Growth-GraphD9A8ED[1].jpg")
>>62936399
Nixon took America off of the gold standard and basically keked the 99% from then on, admittedly the government has been working to dismantle the gold standard for years before Nixon but he was the one who nailed the coffin shut
Rambo III
>>62936459
>>62936460
>How can you even argue that the news media isn't overwhelmingly Left leaning?
They are owned by major corporations and rely on advertising to funding answer to shareholders?
Real criticism of Obama, not Foxes sideshow of birth certificates and marxism and snobbery, can be found in Alternative press like Democracy Now
LIBTARDS PLEASE GO OR AT LEAST POST SOME MOVIES THAT TRANSPORT YOU BACK TO WHEN AMERICA WAS GREAT (January 20, 1981 – January 20, 1989 APPROXIMATELY)
>>62936468
Gold standard is shit and unsustainable in the long run.
Fucking entry level Economics retards.
>>62936468
You could argue Nixon was the last Liberal president. EPA, OSHA, expanded Medicare and Social Security, etc
Just also happened to bomb Cambodia, Laos, overthrow Chiles government, and had a Black Panther organizer assassinated
>>62936443
Maybe if you read the DailyKos Reagan ranks lowly. But if you ask most Americans who their favorite President was Reagan will regularly top the polls.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States
>15. Reagan
>17. Obama
>33. Nixon
I mean don't get me wrong Nixon as a person was pretty shitty but like Jimmy Carter his policies just weren't bad for the country. Meanwhile Reagan and fucking Johnson get a ridiculous amount of undeserved praise.
>>62936474
Confused old movies with foreign policy, is that a reference to anything in particular?
>>62936497
Kek, tell that to my MS in applied economics
Reagan's administration did more than anyone besides maybe Bush Jr. to destroy the American middle class
>>62936516
>reagan regularly tops
>he is 15
>there are 14 are head of him
>15th is "top of the polls"
try harder pls
>>62936474
Apartheid, Saddam and death squads were all good.
>>62936516
>FDR
>2nd
>>62936497
>a currency standard that had been used successfully for 3000 years was unstable in the long run
>>62936524
Community college?
Gold is finite, there's other forms of wealth.
>>62936518
A couple times he regailed people with stories of his war service... he didn't serve in the war, only appeared in movies
Daily reminder that Reagan did more to harm the average citizen than the last three presidents combined.
>>62936526
This. It boggles my mind that people still glorify this senile nutjob.
>Millenials talking shit about a president they know nothing about and only say shit about him because either Social media or Family Guy/south park tells them too
>mfw
>>62936556
You and I both know thats not even trying
![image002[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/AsAwVMh.jpg "image002[1].jpg")
>>62936497
Is that why the US dollar is worth only 5% of what it was when the Gold Standard was used?
>>62936579
More than Barack "Let's give some new trucks and guns to ISIS and kill Gaddafi, what could possibly go wrong?" Obama?
>>62936628
Yes.
>>62936564
University of London Tbh, feel free to explain to us using as much detail as you'd like exactly how the finite nature of gold makes the gold standard unstable
>/pol/ morons actually support and defend neoconservatism
this is priceless
>Operation Night Train
Reagan administration plan to directly invade an officially undesignated Central American nation (presumably Nicaragua
>Rex 84
Reagan administration plan devised by North and Luis Giuffrida, formerly commander of the CSTI and new head of Reagans FEMA, to round up and detain 400,000 anti-War protesters and critics of the administration in the event of said Operation Night Train being carried out.
The Cold War Warriors of the Reagan administration were obsessed with the notion they had been Stabbed in the Back by the anti-War movement. That they won the war in Vietnam but not in Washington. And they were not going to let that happen again.
Its rather like the Germans in the 20s.
>>62936537
Most highly rated president of the last 45 years Anon. Mind you that list is horribly fucked up with total fuck ups like Wilson and Teddy Roosevelt topping the ranks.
>>62936516
>FDR ranked that highly
IRON EAGLE
>>62936526
>the American middle class
Constant attempts to live above their means via frivolous spending on big houses, big cars, shiny electronics and useless college degrees thus racking up massive amounts of debt did far more to destroy the American middle class than the administration of every president since 1865
>>62936628
Far more
Stagnate wages and standards of living declining for 35 years starts with Ronnie
Trained the Mujahideen that tore Afghanistan apart and laid the groundwork for the Taliban and al-Qaeda
Began the spread of Wahabism
Aided Pakistan developing Nuclear weapons
>>62936658
>Most highly rated president of the last 45 years Anon.
FDR is 2nd in that list
>>62936670
Saved the country from the Depression
Won WWII
His economic policies are responsible for the Golden Age of 1946-mid 70s
It is the abandonment of those policies and the adoption of Neo-Liberal Laissez-Faire Free Market Structural Adjust Reform that has led to the situation of stagnation, declining standards, working longer for less, plant closures, vast accumulation of wealth at the top, and the cyclical boom/bust market
>>62936714
I've heard an argument that the shift in the economy was a response to the "crisis of democracy" of the 1960s
That if you got people people struggling to live and in debt and competing against one another for scraps, that they will then be too busy to organise and protest
If you come out of college with a huge debt you're not going to go work for a community legal aid
That if all the auto plants close then the working class blacks aren't going to have a solid base from which to demand their rightsAnd if you flood their neighbourhoods with crack then you just lock them up
>>62936588
It's past your bedtime, grandpa.
>>62935902
>instead of modern day kekoldry
There are black dudes in every single 80s movie
>>62936588
>South Park talking shit about Raygun
You and I both know this would never happen
>>62936692
>FDR was 45 years ago
>mfw
>>62936678
It's a shame that most Americans will either not accept the truth or froth at the mouth when they learn that most of their college degrees were a giant waste of money.
The answer might very well be to socialize higher education like Bernie Sanders wants to, if only just to remove all of the liberal arts classes that have become a major tumor on education system. Baby Boomers turned college into a 4 year vacation for young people and it's insanely stupid.
>>62936497
Yeah fiat money is soooo much better, thanks Krugman.
>>62936714
>His economic policies are responsible for the Golden Age of 1946-mid 70s
No respected economist believes this, it was literally the war boom that saved us and had us prosper.
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MOVIES
>>62936872
Not a Reagan-era movie but it's notable because President Ronnie loved it so much that he called the lead actor and told him he screened it at Camp David.
>>62936912
More of a pessimistic 70's movie in tone than an optimistic Reagan era movie, 1970's New York had a mindblowingly high crime rate
>>62936860
would those be the same respected economists who work for rightwing think tanks that promote the bogus economic policies that enrich the rich and create the current situation?
>>62936872
his movies were shit
>>62936591
I don't know about Saddam but quelling communism in South America was important and South Africa was better off under Apartheid.
>>62936872
>POST
>MOVIES
Literally this movie. A documentary on the Gulf War. Watch the Reagan era spending/training utterly decimate a Soviet equipped military with essentially no combat losses in one of the greatest military victories of all time.
