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   That Would Be Telling (thatwouldbetelling@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 23-May-2024 01:10:37 JST That Would Be Telling

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   @mangeurdenuage @bartholin @kaia Very lame when they go to such effort to collect data but don't provide any historical background.

   TL;DR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_shock including a return to much greater government control over the economy (which "Biden" is now speedrunning).

   But he inherited a terrible hand, see for example the 1960s demonetization of silver.

   And Watergate was used as an excuse for many bad things from ending a president's ability to just not spend money and removing many prior constraints on appropriations. Today all internal constraints are gone with the complicity of the GOPe.