• NotLemming@lemm.ee
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    3 days ago

    Does he know what it is? Do we have to reinvade? Imagine if we got him to sign America over to us because he got an extra visit with royalty or something lol

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        3 days ago

        Maybe you and the decent ones could come over here and we’ll send out crappy ones over there. Or vice versa!

        Or fuck it, we’ll all go beg the scandi countries to take us in. Way crazier stuff is happening right now.

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        3 days ago

        We were for 200 years, but then Nixon happened, and instead of fixing it, we doubled down with Reagan, then instead of fixing that we got here.

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          3 days ago

          Civil war happened, and we didn’t fix it because Lincoln was assassinated, and Andrew Johnson was pro-South.

          We were on this path before Nixon.

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            That shit already started with Washington, the first american conspiracy theorist poisoning the ideological well of the nascent country by cautioning against enemies from within and without trying to undo the country instead of appealing to the coherence of a newly forming society.

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              Correct me if I’m wrong, but haven’t we just experienced the results of enemies within? Trump, Vance, and Musk are all American citizens.

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                Yes. And yet, they used the same concept to justify their grasp for power.

                The important part to understand is the paranoid style of the appeal. It’s not an appeal to unity. It’s one to vigilance.

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                  Maybe we should appeal to engagement and voting along with vigilance so that the enemies from within don’t find a malleable minority to exploit for victory.

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        2 days ago

        We can only hope Charles takes the opportunity that would avail itself: photo of King Charles knighting someone, sword upon their shoulder near their neck