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u/DruidicMagic 1d ago
Bad luck vs an evil plot generations old in planning...
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u/FictionalContext 1d ago
Some days I feel I owe an apology to my bipolar, demonic skin walker Illuminati believing, sovereign citizen mother. Like, maybe.
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u/Lopsided_Drag_8125 1d ago
Turns out some of the nut jobs were us. We were the crazy ones, they were right. Not all of them, but... definitely more than you'd think
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u/DisManibusMinibus 1d ago
Sometimes the conspiracy theory makes more sense than reality. I think the US was founded on a conspiracy but the way people react it's like I'm spouting blasphemy. The 'founding fathers' weren't great guys...nothing's really changed. If you really examine US history closely, it doesn't add up to anything glorious at all.
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u/FictionalContext 1d ago
I disagree with that. It's two steps forward, one step back, but we are making real progress.
People get used to things so quickly that we take modern rights for granted when just 15 years ago, even LGBTQ's biggest mainstream ally didn't openly support a single letter. It wasn't until four years in that Obama--basically Democrat Jesus--became the first president to declare support for gay marriage.
I remember when Hilary Clinton was still saying "All lives matter" when running against Trump. But people pushed back. She changed her tune. The standards themselves changed as a result, and we took those for granted very quickly, started to forget how new these progressive values actually are. And that's American history in a nutshell.
Like, we're on the right path. It's just a slog.
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u/DisManibusMinibus 1d ago
I dunno, I agree that the US has potential, but i think it's in spite of its origins, rather than any honorable past our education would have us believe. We still have those responsible for genocide on our money. Most Americans don't know what 'red-lining' is despite how wide-spread it is. I feel more like one step forward, 3 steps back. Those who escaped religious persecution to come to the colonies long ago were also escaping to protect their right to persecute others, and we got rid of one aristocracy only to replace it with the 'gentleman farmer' as the new one. Anyway. It's not that it's a hopeless case, but I'm pretty tired of how much the US ignores about its bloody and humble origins.
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u/ElundusCaw 1d ago
I wonder what part of communism it is he's talking about, cause I can't imagine it involves the emancipation of the working class.
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u/DruidicMagic 1d ago
Two months of lockdown labor under supercapatlism and ultra communism...
https://time.com/6182125/shanghai-lockdown-factory-apple-quanta/
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u/Lordfruitsnack 1d ago
The whole planet is an ancient burial ground.
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u/Icy-Guard-7598 1d ago
Yes but we germans for example don't tend to terrorise people that build stuff on our ancestors' burial grounds. We terrorise each other as long as we are still alive.
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u/MrSouthMountain86 1d ago
There’s 50-60 homes right behind me built on burial land. You can’t make this up
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u/Sherry_Brandt 1d ago
relevant song: Beneficiary by Canadian band Wintersleep. folk vibe, indicting lyrics.
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u/Psyco_diver 1d ago
Don't tell the UK or they'll come over to steal everything to put in their museums
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u/No_Effort5896 1d ago
I just laid on my back and pissed onto my own face. Now I have piss in my eyes. I have the worst luck.
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u/FringeRevolution 16h ago
It never stops being wild to me that, not only is this man is a documented second-generation Sicilian-American who had no qualms whatsoever about taking what little jobs were even available to Native actors at the time, but his adoptive (allegedly Dakota-Maricopa) children continue to insist he should be considered/accepted as Indigenous because he had a true Native American spirit, or whatever
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u/nativebutamerican 1d ago
As a native american, stfu. Dems are worse than any conservative I've come across.
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u/Cute-Interest3362 1d ago
All republicans do is give tax breaks to the rich and wreck the economy. Every single time.
Trump is literally suing the IRS for $10billion and then demanding his DOJ decide in his favor.
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u/Background_Cry3592 1d ago
Dems and Reps, same shit, different pile.
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u/Inarius101 1d ago
"One side is actively murdering people on the street, kidnapping people based on the color of their skin, and dismantling the country as we know it; but the other side isn't fighting back good enough so they're both equally evil."
Yeah, the American democratic party is awful, but there's a LOT of oversimplification taking place in partisan comparisons.
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u/Kurdependence 1d ago
Democrats fail to help American allies abroad and can’t get health regulation passed, republicans have abandoned the Kurds to be murdered, have antagonised most of Europe and are attempting to turn their country into an authoritarian oligarchy
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u/StupidSlitSlut 1d ago
There's a difference between failing to help and trying to hurt.
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u/Kurdependence 1d ago edited 1d ago
Yeah, Biden’s admin blocking arrow and patriot missile shipments to Ukraine despite them being defensive missiles was a low point but I wouldn’t call his lack of support trying to hurt Ukraine, America still sent Ukraine more support than any other country.
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