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My father was kind of a low level fixer in California politics.
He tended to vote Republican but regarded Reagan as a marginally literate moron.
After Reagantard reached the presidency in 1980, part of his obscene transfer of wealth to the rich brought on taxation of some of social security income.
One day I was talking to my father and kind out of nowhere he said, "Fuck Ronald Reagan."
I don't think anyone in the family voted RepubliKKKlan after that. For a lot of reasons. One of those reasons was his refusal to treat the rise of AIDS seriously.
I get that we are both if a certain age but can you please consider not using terms related to retardation when you mean stupid?
It's about being respectful. Using someone's condition they can't control as a descriptor is (at least in my opinion) disrespectful.
I mean, in a broad sense we can't really control any aspect of ourselves. We live in a deterministic universe. The real reason to stop using 'retard' and related terms is because of how vilely they've been used in relatively recent history to denigrate people with genuine mental disabilities.
..which is made significantly more awkward by you pointing to the other side of the room you're in