• barneypiccolo@lemm.ee
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      America has never been truly great, it has just had the potential to be. But every minute of America’s existence has included systematic exploitation and/or genocide of one group or another - Native Americans, slaves, black Americans, non-Christian religions, women, children, immigrants, workers, the poor, etc.

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      Ah yes, 1950, when America was the only massively industrialized nation in the world that hadn’t been bombed into fucking oblivion during WW2, and therefore dominated the global economy by default.