Reagan is popular to blame but this suggests it started before him.
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What the fuck happen in 1971?
Tl;dr boomers came of age and voted to change things and held onto that power ever since
boomers came of age and voted to change things
Was that what happened during the Freedom Rides of MLK era? Or at the 1968 Democratic Convention? Or the 1987 MOVE bombing? Or during the 80s/90s War on Crime and Drugs?
I seem to remember a bunch of Boomers coming of age, getting arrested, beaten up, and shot, and then states making a historic effort to disenfranchise them in record numbers in order to control who actually gets selected to run the bureaucracy of the state.
Might be a tinsy bit of selection bias in the "Boomers ruined everything" narrative, as a bunch of Boomers were removed from the election process long before they had any kind of control over things.
I didn't say boomers ruined everything, you're right that the young civil rights advocates in the 60s were also boomers, but the 70s is when they grabbed political control and never let go.
Sure it wasn't all bad, but they wanted to change the system and did, and we are still dealing with the consequences today.
70s is when they grabbed political control and never let go
The 70s is when Boomers took the electoral majority. But the people actually in control - the Nixons and Rehnquists and Gettys and Waltons - were significantly older.
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People hate and fear black people or gay people out of ignorance and stupidity. People fear mutants because they cap rip out all the iron in someone's body. They have the power of a million mass shooters in one hand.
Some of them have the power of of a million mass shooters. Some of them have the power of a very long neck. Seriously, there an X-man with the codename Longneck because he has a very long neck. He's never once helped the team in the field, because he's completely powerless unless he wants to look over toilet stall walls while pooping.
He does have longer arms to match his neck, but that's it. I guess he can easily get stuff off a high shelf...
And pointedly he cannot blend in as a normal human, so his introduction to the team was them saving him from a lynch mob.
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I dunno, sometimes I see somebody acting monstrously and wish an alien abomination would have him for lunch.