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!@#$%! · 01.07.2015, 12:52 PM

i think it was more than crunching numbers. it was that mainstream america fell under the spell of the great communicator. everyone can be rich if they just want to! if you're struggling it's your own fault. who wants to watch a loser when we can dream of being yuppies? if you can dream it you can do it. etc.

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ps george lopez worked in a factory too but apparently his schtick was about the fiction of "race."

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there's this great scene in lucky louie where they've been hard up for a while and finally the wife gets her paycheck they wanna go out & celebrate and they go to the cash checking place and get a bunch of money orders to pay all their overdue bills and then they're left with 26 cents in change.

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ps - just read this! good stuff. http://www.alternet.org/story/148122/how_america's_working_class_died_on_the_disco_danc e_floor

^^ weird link doesn't copy correctly. just google "70s working class films" and it will appear on top.

01.07.2015, 12:52 PM	#18436
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,465	i think it was more than crunching numbers. it was that mainstream america fell under the spell of the great communicator. everyone can be rich if they just want to! if you're struggling it's your own fault. who wants to watch a loser when we can dream of being yuppies? if you can dream it you can do it. etc. -- ps george lopez worked in a factory too but apparently his schtick was about the fiction of "race." -- there's this great scene in lucky louie where they've been hard up for a while and finally the wife gets her paycheck they wanna go out & celebrate and they go to the cash checking place and get a bunch of money orders to pay all their overdue bills and then they're left with 26 cents in change. -- ps - just read this! good stuff. http://www.alternet.org/story/148122/how_america's_working_class_died_on_the_disco_danc e_floor ^^ weird link doesn't copy correctly. just google "70s working class films" and it will appear on top.
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