• Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    It’s a leftover from an earlier and more honorable time in American governance.

    Oof… Yeah that’s about right.

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      7 hours ago

      Factually correct, but let’s not pretend previous governments gave a hoot about honorable conduct and integrity beyond appearances. So maybe it’s more accurate to call it simply a less dysfunctional time in US-American governance.

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        7 hours ago

        You really think the country has been this fucked up the whole time? You think this isn’t new? Don’t kid yourself, it has not “always been like this”. They want you to forget, they want you to accept this as normal…

        THIS IS NOT NORMAL

        The current administration of this country is a bizarre, grotesque aberration. If this were normal, there wouldn’t be so much to ruin.

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          Are you really gonna make me list all the heinous shit the US has done and worked to normalize before Trump?

          No this isn’t normal. But wasn’t before either. Now a lot of people in the US are no longer in a position to pretend otherwise. And if there’s anything good that could come out of the Trump administration, it’s that those people might start to understand the meaning of solidarity.