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What happened in 1971? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Saw a post about this at [email protected] and was a bit confused by exactly how badly the people there were going at each others throats in the comments. Nobody seemed able to agree on what precisely happened in 1971. Suggested explanations included:

Neoliberalism being declared the state religion by Grand Moff Richard Nixon
The gold standard being abolished
The oil crisis
The Republican and Democrat parties becoming increasingly divided
Declining birthrates
Institutional Racism

If any of you could give some explanations with, like, sources that aren't just 10 pages of graphs with arrows pointing at 1971, that would be pretty great.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's copy pasting the thing and not really reading what you posted, or seeing those artifacts and just not caring for them.

If you copy pasted it from another site and had not fixed those it would be lazy aswell. It's only that the two combined that made me a bit snappy.

So let me rephrase and put it more politely. It's great that you included your source! Please do take a pause and re-read what youre about to post/have posted in the future, it makes everybody more happy and gets your (or chatcpt's) point across more clearly!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I read it. It was relevant. Otherwise I would not have posted it. I did not clean it up because I was on mobile and it was legible as is.

I asked several questions and was impressed at the result. I know people do not like LLMs, but they are tools just like a search engine. I am somehow getting Butlerian Jihad vibes.