• Blibly@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    They’ve already murdered us in the street and we did nothing of consequence. People still assume there’s a legislative/political way out of this but I’m not so sure…

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      21 hours ago

      There is no such thing as a way out in a country made up of people who let Trump win a second time or voted for him a second time. Period.

      Even when Trump is dead and the GOP out of office, we’ll still have a sea of contemptible morons making up a significant portion of our country.

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        21 hours ago

        The regrettable conclusion I’ve come to is that Germany’s reconstruction was more or less successful in part due to the fact that ~12 million Germans were killed during the war, if memory serves. Surely a lot of innocent collateral…but also probably a lot of Nazi slime. That’s a lot of people you don’t need to worry about rehabilitating, or worry about them firebombing occupation forces, or sieg-heiling Holocaust survivors, or creating a lost cause myth to whitewash their crimes, or generally trying to gin up Round 2.

        • jontree255@lemmy.world
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          16 hours ago

          I’ve been convinced since 2020 when Trump won 5 million more votes in the middle of COVID while thousands of people dying per day that this country must suffer before we can recover. Americans are just too fucking stupid.