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And on top of all of that, one person wants to actively make it worse, just bc he gets to skim a bit from the top. We deserve our fate I suppose, when we refuse to see something even after it is painstakingly pointed out to us, but damned if I'm not still sad about it.:-(

By deregulation of what is allowed to be called "news", yeah. Though if we were that fragile to begin with... I wouldn't put all the blame onto him.

Reconstructionism in the American South also played a role, in papering over some of the differences that lead up to the war, rather than dealing with them in a forthright manner, see e.g. Nuremberg trials.

And ofc before that, people outright owned people as slaves, and even today the number of people who simply don't care in the slightest is extremely high.

i.e., we aren't so much suffering from something like cancer as we are something more akin to a genetic defect, which even predated the Constitution. That is not to say this was inevitable - we've had so very many opportunities to turn back from where we've been headed... But neither we, nor the Russian disinformation campaigns directed at us, seem to want that to happen.

I was going to mention some of that... but then I remembered that facts don't actually matter to them in the slightest so...

And that's the rub. One side is sending death threats and attempting kidnapping of the other, plus the whole storm the capitol thing, plus actively rooting to support not only Russia but Israel (tbf the other side is doing that too, at least the politicians even if not the voters) and even somehow North Fucking Korea, oh yeah and wanting to become fascist, while the other side... doesn't do most of those, at least to the same degree.

In WWII we fought fascism, but it went underground (cough Fox News cough) and now it's back all over again, and this time it looks to be winning. Both globally, and almost if not quite at home (it may not have "won" yet, but at best things seem to be tied, and remember that SCOTUS ruling that nobody seems to be talking about anymore...? yeah that's not exactly a resounding defeat of fascism or at least authoritarianism there, when you can kill your political opponents at will).

Sorry, looks like that image cut off only halfway through the word, what it meant to say was...:

Either all is well... or it's wearing the ring of power and all hell is about to break loose!

True... except she spake it, so...

The number of people who do not know that the America in the Golden Era (50-60s), for white people especially men, was fairly socialist, is extremely high.

Yes cause with his big strong hands he's definitely capable of that:-P.

- ~~"conservatives"~~ Republicans

Oh wait my bad that's 1 Thessalonians 5:21, oh well nobody seems to care.

Aminal says:

Can't we "promote" that guy... what's-his-name - somewhere, like could waste recycling use another helping hand?

Sir, I'm still on the call.