"Trying" lol
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Wrong. It took the revolution, and it has been decaying since
Tbf, it's been in decay since Reagan. Long time coming to get here. Trump was inevitable when we didn't address inequality, lowered taxes on the wealthy, and allowed Citizen's United.
Pfft. 250 years to build it. Trump would have built it in 3 tops. Nobody builds a county like him. He’s the best country builder person. Everyone says it. You guys are just jealous or something.
(he's succeeding btw)
This could be the first time he's ever been successful (unless you count bankrupting casinos, and other 'businesses' a success...?)
To quote the Beastie Boys.
It takes a second to wreck it
It takes time to build
And with this fat fascist, there is no chill and we're all fucked.
His neck line is so much funnier in a silhouette
...there's no trying, man, it's already undone...
There is far too many "won't" "can't" "it's over" "he'll never leave" and not enough "Let's make him leave" going on if you ask me.
That’s good. Our government has become so corrupt and incompetent it needs destroyed and rebuilt.
So do it.
like a coalition?
Revolution sounds better and better.
Especially the last hundred years since ww1 and the last 150 since yellowstone became the first national park and started a system greatly expanded and championed by a republican president. Of course the post office is from the dawn of the country and a mark of any real society. Certainly more so than some stupid parading of military crap.
As an African American, those 250 years of building was never for us, so while I'm happy that our unjust systems are crumbling under their own weight of stupidity. I wish it was being properly dismantled brick by brick from the left opposed to knocked over by what appears to be two elderly men with clearly anti social sociopathic and toxic masculinity, driving a triangle shaped truck that struggled to drive up a curb. The wall has just fallen on top of the poor, POC, and LGBTQ+ community. And the capitalist are going to just see the heep of bodies and bricks as a new road to drive over.
There’s also a more optimistic view: while I appreciate running through life in hard mode, I’d still claim a lot of progress. The situation may suck, but it used to suck more.
In every dystopian society collapse sci fi, there is more oppression, more bullying and violence against “others”. Be careful what you wish for: things may suck but they can always suck more. I don’t think an apocalypse will give you a break
Yeah, but even the left or more specifically the Dems are still complicit in the shit show we are seeing now. I really don't want Trump in office under any circumstances, so I'm not saying to vote for him because Dems are shit too. They are definitely a much lesser shitty side.
The main issue is people are greedy. This goes back to the beginning of time. This is why history repeats itself. Just look at Rome and what Julius Caesar did. I feel like that is Trump now.
And then the Senate during that time was the same. Rich goblins leeching on society. This is a fight against the rich and against the people that take way more than what they need. Their bellies are full and yet they keep eating. This is why slavery was a thing and to make themselves feel better they used racism to call people with darker skin color than their own, monsters. People are fucking sick.
Similar sentiments here. I'm a trans and PoC immigrant, this country was never for me. I'm glad it's collapsing, I just feel sad for the good people who have to live through it.
If something like that can be easily be undone, then either it wasn't anything or the people who made it didn't try very hard to secure it.
There are lots of locked doors. Each door has one key, and one key master (forgive the phrase). A single person cannot enter every door on their own. This is a good system.
However… if the key masters can be convinced to re-key their door with the same key, then anyone who has one key has them all.
The system failed when the key masters became corrupt and/or lazy. And the country failed when we saw it happening and did nothing.
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