MUTANT & PROUD

“no way bowie isn’t a mutant”

“with nixon gone, do you think anything will change?”

“i don’t want you to be afraid of me”

“it doesn’t work like that.”

“do you think someone’s going after ford the way they did kennedy?”

“we’re not monsters. not all of us are, anyway.”

“only a matter of time until magneto ends up the same way as steve biko.”

“enough is enough.”

“of course they’re angry at us, they were were upset enough about roe w. vade.”

“you can trust me. im not going to hurt you.”

“how can anyone think we’re the threat after munich?”

“rumor has it if you sign up for testing, they’ll exclude you from the draft”

“no, it isn’t groovy.”

“pretty sure i’ve seen star wars 3 times now.”

“new pope, same old bullshit.”

“they’re trying to say they can experiment on us, like we’re some sort of animal”

“i’ve never been afraid of mutants”

“it doesn’t matter what they think. they aren’t us.” 

“no way magneto took out kennedy, had to be a cover up”

“do constitutional rights only extend to humans?”

Below is a list of United States based political events that happened in the 1980s. Feel free to use them as references, research, or starting points for possible rps. [source]

1985

November 19, 1985 - Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan, leaders of the USSR and the US, respectively, meet in Geneva, Switzerland, for a summit conference. November 20, 1985 - The first version of Windows is released. December 11, 1985 - GE buys out RCA for 6.28 billion dollars.

1986

January 20, 1986 - The first official Martin Luther King Jr Day is observed as a federal holiday. January 28, 1986 - The Challenger Shuttle explodes, killing 7 people. May 25, 1986 - The Hands Across America campaign has five million people across the US link to make a human chain, to fight hunger and homelessness. September 18, 1986 - A tentative agreement is reached between the USSR and the US is reached to ban medium-range missiles. Long-range missiles were not banned.

1987

October 19, 1987 - Black Monday occurs; stocks drop 22.6% in one day. This results in a world-wide stock market crash. October 23, 1987 - Robert Bork, Reagan's nominee to the Supreme Court, is rejected. December 8, 1987 - The Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty dismantles all US and Soviet missiles with a range of 300 and 3,400 miles, almost 3,000 missiles in all.

1988

May 4, 1988 - 1.4 million applications for amnesty by illegal aliens are allowed. An estimation of 71% of those applicants enter the US from Mexico. November 8, 1988 - Republican Vice President George Herbert Walker Bush wins the presidential election.

1989

Below is a list of United States based political events that happened in the 1980s. Feel free to use them as references, research, or starting points for possible rps. Part 2 to come shortly. [source]

( December 1979 - Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. )

1980

January 4, 1980 - President Carter puts an embargo on sales of grain and technology to the USSR due to the invasion. March 21, 1980 - President Carter requests for US Olympic Committee to withdraw from the Moscow Games owing to the invasion of Afghanistan. April 12, 1980 - The US Olympic Committee holds a vote to withdraw from the Moscow Games. It passes. April 24-25, 1980 - Operation Eagle Claw, sent to rescue 52 embassy staff from the US Embassy in Tehran, Iran, fails due to a mid-air collision. October 10, 1980 - Legislation is passed establishing the Boston African American National Historic Site, including the oldest black church in America. November 4, 1980 - Ronald Reagan, former governor of California and a Republican, wins the presidency of the United States of America in a landslide victory.

1981

January 20, 1981 - Ronald Reagan is inaugurated. The 52 American hostages in Tehran are released following an 8 billion dollar return of frozen asset to Iran. March 30, 1981 - Assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan. He survives. July 29, 1981 - Over 750 billion dollars worth of tax cuts are passed by Congress to be lowered over the next five years. September 21, 1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor is approved to become the first female Supreme Court associate justice.

1982

November 5, 1982 - Unemployment reaches 10.4%, the highest since 1940. Over 11 million people are unemployed. November 13, 1982 - The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, having over 58,000 names of the KIA and MIA, is erected in Washington, DC.

1983

March 23, 1983 - The Strategic Defense Initiative Program is proposed by Reagan. It will be technology to intercept missiles. June 18, 1983 - Sally Ride is the first American woman to go to space. October 25, 1983 - The US invades Grenada to take care of the Marxist regime there.

1984

Below is a small sampling of some of the major political movements that began or ended during the 1980s. Please feel free to use them as a starting point for research or as topics for roleplay and discussion. More to be added soon!

RISE OF THE EVANGELICAL RIGHT (US POLITICS)

The “New Right” began to emerge in the late 1970s and 1980s as a response to what was seen growing crime rates, pollution and urban overcrowding. Consisting of a wide range of Americans, including disaffected white liberals, evangelical Christians, anti-tax crusaders and proponents of a wholly free market, the New Right also spoke out against what they believed as cost-ineffective social programs and federal overreach. 

THE 1979 REVOLUTION (IRANIAN POLITICS)

During the 1970s, power in Iran was largely held by a small group of close allies & friends of the Shah of Iran, Reza Pahlavi. As his rule grew increasingly more autocratic and increased the gap between the country’s rich and poor, dissent began to build against his regime. Opposition voices began to rally around the Ayatollah Khomeini, a Shia cleric living in exile in Paris and supporting a return to traditional conservative and religious roots. Throughout February 1979, and following the Shah’s flee from Iran, opposition forces began to rally and the Ayatollah was elected in a landslide victory in a national referendum less than two months later. 

THATCHERISM (BRITISH POLITICS)

Following the election of Margaret Thatcher in 1979, her political platform swiftly began to promote free market economics, restrained government tax cuts and a rise in British nationalism both at home and abroad. This led to an increase in conservative social views, with many suddenly in a panic over what was considered a decrease in general morality and acceptance of “non-traditional” ways of life & living. 

THE DIRTY WAR (ARGENTINIAN POLITICS)

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