• anomnom@sh.itjust.works
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      3 days ago

      Around 55 years, when the southern strategy was enacted to solidify racist support for Republicans.

      Before that the parties were more mixed and it was the confederates and robber barons doing the damage. Before that it was the slave owners. And before that it was the colonizers. Before that it was probably whichever tribe had the best growing season or pointiest flint arrowheads.

      I’m starting to second guess what the point of progress really is. Are we trying to ride humanity out until the heat death of the universe? Or just the next billion years before the sun boils our oceans away? Another 2000 years so today’s assholes can become deities? 52 more years the the US Tricentennial?

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        3 days ago

        The lethargic, stagnant, apathetic, merciless, ignorant, xenophobic state of humanity in the sci-fi Lord of the Rings fan fiction called Warhammer 40,000 is getting increasingly more prophetic.

    • suburban_hillbilly@lemmy.ml
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      Try at least a century. Go listen to some of FDR’s campaign speeches, many of them are as relevant today as when they were given.