Don’t forget the war on drugs

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TBH, the mental hospitals were a mess and rife with abuse.

But rather that invest money into improving them, he got rid of them by branding it “de-institutionalization”. Made it sound like he was freeing people.

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I recall seeing that exposé Geraldo Rivera did on Staten Island’s Willowbrook State School. Wild.

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It took many years before people found effective antivirals to help people infected with AIDS. No nation had effective treatment.

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Having to work to develop treatment is one thing. Actively ignoring the existence of HIV/AIDS and just letting people die is an entirely different thing. Reagan was a piece of shit.

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It’s not like the medical industrial complex sits around waiting for the whitehouse to tell them which diseases to work on. They know how to make a dollar, they just didn’t have the knowledge at the time.

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while having early onset alzheimers at the time, which was hidden from the public, and the administration was mostly controlled by nancy and the cabinet.

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hmmmm…why does this story sound so familiar?

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Another great president on the right, this time a fucking actor… A DAMN ACTOR!

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