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[–] KnilAdlez@hexbear.net 34 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Close enough, ~~welcome back~~ go back to hell Ronald Reagan

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

~~What does Ronald Reagan have to do with this?~~

Did some research, for those who don't know reagan tried to shove a bunch of cubans in there at one point

[–] KnilAdlez@hexbear.net 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Reagan became very worried about glitches in the nuclear warning system after watching WarGames. He developed the SDI program, which was often nicknamed Star Wars.

Just saw your edit, that wasn't even the reference I was making, there's just a lot of layers and parallels between the two lmao

[–] Pentacat@hexbear.net 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Reagan’s slogan was “Let’s Make America Great Again” at one point.

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago

Which he stole from Thatcher, who came up with "Make Britain Great Again" because the pun actually works on Britain / Great Britain