• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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      19 days ago

      Hasn’t it always been? It’s just more visible rn, volume went to 11, trump is an obvious dictator mobster wannabe loser, but hasn’t the US always been just this anyway?

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        19 days ago

        Not really, no. Not like this. Just since the talibangelicals have seized control. Yeah, there absolutely have been problems before, but they corrected back to the middle. Not this time.

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      19 days ago

      That might imply that it hasn’t been for generations.

      edit: suck my bare ass, all you trolls, bots, and various propaganda fucktoys. This nation is fully in the WIP stage, and has been from the jump, but if you honestly believe otherwise, I’m more likely to bet you’re a gawdamned idiot than trust your ability to cogently grasp the salient concepts.

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        19 days ago

        I must comment that I down voted not because of the content of your initial comment, but because of the tone of your edit.

        Insulting people doesn’t get your point across, I understand that there’s a lot of anger, but communication is really key and the time it takes to percolate is glacial. Yet by abuse understanding walks the other way.

        I’m this case it’s better to embrace the common consensus that the USA is fucked, where you agree, rather than focus on the throwaway ‘rn’ that you go off on.

      • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.world
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        19 days ago

        You don’t have to keep spiking that football, everyone who gives a damn about history knows and it downplays the very real worsening that is also happening.

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          19 days ago

          No, it most certainly does not, but applauding the silencing of our histories’ many lessons in its myriad failures most certainly is working in the favor of anti-intellectualism and other tactics of fascism. You do you, though.

          Oh, and by the way, do you know what they called Nazi apologists back in the day? I mean, you don’t really come across those two words used together much, you know. It’s because the correct term for a Nazi “apologist” is simply: Nazi. Just something to keep in mind, I guess.

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            19 days ago

            I’m gonna go on record and say I think you’re a good person, and I try to be too, and I think this has been a miscommunication. We’re all stressed as hell lately and I genuinely think of myself as on the same side as you.

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              19 days ago

              Fair points all, and FWIW, I’m sorry that your movie’ll never see the light of day. You, and those like you, are the ^mostly silent peacekeepers in the world — defusing uncountable conflicts every single day. Y’all should have an international holiday named after your Good works, NGL. 🙇🏽‍♂️🤘🏼