• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Buddy. We are nowhere near where we used to be. We used to call out the soldiers to shoot at striking workers. We used to grow out our hair so we could get paid for voting 3 or 4 times. (Get a shave, get a haircut, lose the mustache and the rest of the hair.) It used to be impossible to convict anyone of killing a black man.

    We aren’t anywhere near as bad as things have been in the past.

    • WoodScientist@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      And the Soviet Union at its collapse wasn’t as bad as the nadirs or tsarist Russia. Just because things were worse 150 years ago doesn’t matter. The problem is the system is now intractably broken and further progress cannot be made.

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        4 days ago

        It’s broken for 4 years at least, sure… But it’s not beyond hope. Did you see share that Luigi guy did the other day? That dude was American, and he’s broken far less laws than our next president.

        • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          4 days ago

          The President has never been above the law in reality. Nixon thought he was, Reagan got away with shit, but they always had the law to obey or face punishments. Trump doesn’t need to worry about anything other than his health or a 3rd shooter.