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ck4829

(35,085 posts)
Fri Nov 4, 2022, 10:49 AM Nov 2022

When someone asks "how did *that* happen?", you can suggest they look around

That being:


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When the man who orchestrated the attempted putsch that saw Ashli Babbitt get killed turn around make both her... and him too for some reason... into martyrs, look at that photo above.

When the right talks about litter boxes in schools without any evidence or Jewish space lasers, look at that photo above.

When Michael Flynn makes some nonsense claim about, well, anything and people just cheer him on, look at that photo above.

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When someone asks "how did *that* happen?", you can suggest they look around (Original Post) ck4829 Nov 2022 OP
It's happened to us here before JustAnotherGen Nov 2022 #1

JustAnotherGen

(31,869 posts)
1. It's happened to us here before
Fri Nov 4, 2022, 12:44 PM
Nov 2022

We had a 100 year regime in the USA. Not just the Jim Crow regime - - the entire USA. Democracy in America did not truly begin until 1965.

We don't have to look to Germany - we need only look at how America has treated black, indiginous, Japanese, learning / physically impaired (forced sterilization as an example), guinea pigging human beings (Tuskeegee), orphan trains, child separation at the border, the sterilization against their will of immigrant women during the Trump Administration, etc. etc.

It's who we have been. They - the others - need to start being OTHERED bigly.


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