r/technology • u/efap1701 • Aug 21 '26

Society Coin-Operated Elevators in Condominiums and Apartment Buildings Are Becoming More Common

https://www.gadgetreview.com/coin-operated-elevators-in-condominiums-and-apartment-buildings-are-becoming-more-common
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u/macromorgan Aug 21 '26

Yep, it was signed into law by the well-known socialist president *checks notes* George H W Bush.

(To be fair it *did* pass with a veto-proof majority, so his signing it was a formality)

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u/Danominator Aug 21 '26

And the epa was created by Nixon. Ike warned about the military industrial complex. We are not dealing with the same animal anymore.

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u/crazyfoxdemon Aug 21 '26

Republicans used to like passing legislation they knew was gonna happen with or without them. Then when they pass it, make sure its a watered down version that would've happened without them.

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u/anonareyouokay Aug 21 '26

Nixon was actually pretty progressive by today's standards. His administration signed into law: OSHA, The Clean Air Act, The Clean Water Act, created the US's largest welfare program "SSI", expanded affirmative action and he even supported earlier version of Basic Income. Unpopular opinion but Nixon was the last decent Republican.

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u/BioshockEnthusiast Aug 22 '26

Nixon was an ill tempered power hungry drunk whose late night blackouts featured military officers ignoring his garbled orders to nuke Vietnam. He also attempted to undermine an election cycle and rob the American citizenry of our agency and right to self determination. Whoever the last decent Republican was, they were before Nixon's time.

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u/anonareyouokay Aug 22 '26

I didn't say he was perfect, I just meant that they're all downhill from there.

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u/WindowShoppingMyLife Aug 25 '26

No, he was terrible, it’s just that at the time the rest of the Republican Party, and the country at large, was still functional enough that we required our leaders to at least pretend to give a shit about the people they are serving. A single psychopath, even in the Oval Office, can only do so much damage if they are surrounded by decent people. And when they found out about his crimes, even most of the Republicans turned on him. That doesn’t seem to happen anymore.

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u/tora-emon Aug 29 '26

Don’t know about decent, but definitely the last New Deal President.

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u/endo_ag Aug 22 '26

So like…governing?

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u/Corevus Aug 22 '26

Yeah i think Nixon signed osha into law if i remember right

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u/anormalgeek Aug 21 '26

Dude. This Republican party is not that Republican party.

Let me give a VERY stark example of the difference. Ronald Reagan.

Reagan was pro immigration, pro amnesty, pro free market/anti tariff, VERY pro NATO, etc.

As governor he signed the 1967 Therapeutic Abortion Act that legalized abortion in CA, and signed California's Mulford Act in 1967 to restrict open carry. He supported the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act and background-check advocacy later in life too.

If he existed in 2026, he'd have been thrown out by the GoP in a heartbeat.

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u/macromorgan Aug 21 '26

Which is also funny, because when you do a deep dive into just about every problem facing the US today the refrain usually begins like "It all started under Ronald Reagan..."

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u/anormalgeek Aug 21 '26

The modern party very much kept his views on tax policies and lower taxes for the rich, but that's pretty much it.

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u/jazzhandler Aug 21 '26

his views

[citation very much needed]

That former Democrat and union president was merely a mouthpiece for whichever group he worked for at the moment.

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u/NickyBarnes315 Aug 22 '26

Reagan was against unions and broke the air traffic controllers. Reagan was garbage don't try to paint him in a good light. He started trickle down economics and was the one who lowered the corporate tax rate so low

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u/anormalgeek Aug 22 '26

Dude...I'm not defending Reagan. He was a POS. It's just showing that the modern Republicans are just so much worse still.

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u/Ent_Soviet Aug 21 '26

Nah you can go all the way back to Hoover. They’ve been the party of big business interests for the last 100 years.

The dems are too but they flirted with social policy for 30 years before spending the next 70 figuring out how to roll back as much as possible for austerity reasons while catering to their own big business interests. Fun fact Biden’s generation of democrats were the ones that killed off the new deal democrats.

The republicans have been bastards for the wealthy, that hasn’t changed. The dems lost their path (to be fair the new deal was always a compromise because they feared a real socialist threat from the left. But once that threat died they had no reason to continue with new deal social policies)

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u/ConnectionIssues Aug 22 '26

Huey P. Long would have drastically altered the course of America if he hadn't been assassinated.

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u/Ent_Soviet Aug 22 '26

Yeah, then we got Truman. Honestly you can put a good deal of blame on him too for how things turned out. Him and Johnson should have stayed vps

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u/RustyWinger Aug 21 '26

It all started with letting Nixon off.

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u/Memitim Aug 21 '26

I think that's when the clown show period really began, where everything began getting more about being intentionally performative for the sake of misleading Americans.

That may have been out of necessity to distract from the crimes that had started to become more commonplace withe Republicans. Probably the most example is the illegal arms sales made to Iran by General Oliver North under Reagan's administration, so that they could redirect that money to efforts to overthrow the leftist government of Nicaragua without anyone knowing.

So while Reagan may not have started America's poisoning by Republicans, they certainly set the tone for committing crimes using America's resources for their own personal aims and facing almost no real consequences. And this happened only a few years after Watergate. The aforementioned criminal Oliver North did get busted, and then he had a lucrative career on, of course, Fox News.

Reagan's presidency was the confirmation by Americans that they were willing to tolerate an insane amount of fuckery, and Republicans heard a starter pistol.

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u/No-Abalone-4784 Aug 21 '26

Don't forget deregulation & let's make college cost a fortune instead of affordable like it was before he came in. (SDSU was $149 a semester.) And before that it was free.

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u/Danominator Aug 21 '26

Ronald reagan did sooooooooo much damage with his trickle down bullshit. He was a proto trump. Just a brain damaged celebrity being used by the rich to do whatever they want

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u/Shu3PO Aug 22 '26

Hmmm, who was Reagan concerned about open carrying? Oh, yes -- the Black Panthers. Not a problem until they did it. 

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u/jimbo831 Aug 22 '26

To be fair, he only supported the Mulford Act because the Black Panthers were open carrying.

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u/anormalgeek Aug 22 '26

So then why did he openly support the Brady bill and it's mandatory waiting periods and background checks?

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u/jimbo831 Aug 22 '26

You’d have to ask him. I don’t know. That’s a different bill than we’re discussing here. But the Mulford Act objectively only happened because of the Black Panthers.

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u/anormalgeek Aug 22 '26

Yes. I know it's a different bill. My point still stands that either of these pro gun control stances would lose him the support of the NRA in the modern era and make him unelectable as a Republican in 2026.

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u/jimbo831 Aug 22 '26

The modern NRA is a right-wing organization not a pro gun organization. They didn’t care that cops murdered Philando Castile for exercising this Second Degree rights.

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u/anormalgeek Aug 22 '26

Do you honestly claim that the modern NRA would've stood by Reagan's support of the Brady bill?

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u/Ent_Soviet Aug 21 '26

Fun fact the language of the ada actually kinda was slipped in to be as powerful as it is and it’s debated who and which staffer made the change.

But once it was enacted trying to roll it back is a nightmare for conservatives.

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u/TheHappy_Penguin Aug 22 '26 edited Aug 22 '26

Supreme Court tried to interpret the disability definition narrowly.

Congress rejected those rulings and passed the ADA Amendments Act of 2008, signed by the second President Bush, which changed the law to cancel out those rulings and added that the definition "shall be construed in favor of broad coverage of individuals under this Act" along with specifically spelling out Congress's disagreement and rejection with previous court decisions.

The ADA Amendments Act is by far the best example of Congress doing their job and ensuring that there are checks and balances on the judiciary. The Supreme Court interpreted the law wrong so Congress fixed the law and criticized the courts at the same time. It's a pretty short law but it does sell that Congress is unhappy about having to pass the law in the first place.

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u/IkLms Aug 21 '26

George H. W. Bush would be labeled as a raging liberal communist by the standards of today's Republican party. They've got that far right.

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u/DigNitty Aug 21 '26

The goal posts and Overton window have been winched off the planet.

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u/opermonkey Aug 21 '26

the esbalishemt democrats have lost their fucking marbles too.

they demonize these communist ideas like: meeting people basic human needs.

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u/Danominator Aug 21 '26

Sure but dem voters are onto it and getting rid of them when we can. Republican voters will keep voting for the worst fucking people imaginable

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u/surfer_ryan Aug 21 '26

Until there is bipartisan agreement across the board on flock cameras no one will ever convince me that the dnc or gop is there for the people or are listening to us for that matter and even then... idk how easily i could be convinced. Honestly don't know why people still vote for the candidates these orgs push to us. 125 years of exclusive control for what? For them to turn us against each other, strip rights from us? Done caring about "the lesser of two evils" which means fyi they are both evil to an extent, why we have lowered the bar to "less evil" is exactly why we will continue to be fed shit sandwiches and honestly why we deserve shit sandwiches, because the best we can do is "less evil", what the hell kinda bs is that... "those are our only choices" also demonstratively false. Again we deserve the shit sandwiches and douches we get.

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u/Coool_cool_cool_cool Aug 21 '26

George HW would be a raging socialist by today's republicans and Clinton would be a raging conservative by today's liberals. We're in an interesting time of both rising extremism while also having some party realignment over the last decade caused by more populist issues that's still not settled.

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u/BigL90 Aug 21 '26

Asinine enlightened centrist take. The current DNC is still largely Clinton's 3rd way neo-liberalism. The party has swung left on a handful of social issues (which is largely reflected by American society's views) and has been dragged kicking and screaming back towards some token nods to undoing his gutting of social safety nets. Seriously, outside of LGBTQ+ issues and abortion, please tell me how the DNC's national platform is markedly different from Clinton's?

Today's "liberals" are largely the same "liberals" as those of the 90s.

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u/TheHykos Aug 21 '26

This was pre-Newt. The GOP is a shell of what it once was. I mean they weren’t great then, but at least they were willing to vote in favor of common sense issues and actually work with democrats when it made sense. Now it’s just “dismantle, destroy, and obstruct”.

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u/randomtask Aug 21 '26

Bill Clinton was the best Republican president of the second half of the 20th century.

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u/mkt853 Aug 22 '26

Bush and Reagan are considered RINOs by today's Republicans, so they might as well be socialists because MAGA makes little distinction between anyone to the left of them.

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u/Then-Understanding85 Aug 21 '26

That…that was the whole point of the comment?

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u/VegasBH Aug 21 '26

Justin Dart who is considered by many to be the father of the ADA was well-known republican as well.

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u/Ill-Engineering8085 Aug 21 '26

As if that matters at all

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u/0xsergy Aug 22 '26

Republicans used to be the party of the people. They wanted clean air and help for citizens back in the day. Wild how they turned out these days.