America is corrupt
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But I’m still naively clinging to hope
  • kandoh@reddthat.com
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    2 months ago

    Let’s try to make a list of where America went wrong

    1. The Louisiana Purchase: turned the nation into an expansionist empire.

    2. Andrew Jackson ignoring the rule of law so he could genocide the natives

    3. Lincoln keeping Johnson as his VP while at war with the south.

    4. Ending reconstruction early

    5. FDR not hanging the conspirators in the business plot

    6. Nixon using the Southern Strategy to win his election

    7. Ford pardoning Nixon

    8. Everything Ronald Reagan did

    9. Ruby Ridge, Waco, and NAFTA radicalization of rural Americans

    10. Supreme Court awards GWB the presidency

    11. The Iraq War

    12. Unregulated banks allowed to crash the global economy

    13. Limited US involvement in the Arab Spring fails to capitalize on popular movement, Syrian refugee crisis sends far right into overdrive

    14. Allowing the host of celebrity apprentice to be President

    15. Ignoring the COVID pandemic until it’s too late then not locking down hard enough.

    16. Supporting Israeli genocide in Gaza

      • anticolonialist@lemmy.worldEnglish
        01·
        2 months ago

        Clinton’s telecom act did more damage to public knowledge and information than the fairness doctrine

    • fah_Q@lemmy.ca
      0·
      2 months ago

      Really, the Louisiana Purchase is the first thing you believe the US did wrong 😂.

        • fah_Q@lemmy.ca
          01·
          2 months ago

          Louisiana purchase was 1803, In 1619 ish slaves arrive in Virginia. Read a book you fucking absolute clown.

          • trafficnab@lemmy.ca
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            2 months ago

            Good thing we have this expert history book reader to tell us that the first thing the UNITED STATES did wrong was import slaves into the ENGLISH COLONY of Virginia in 1619

            • fah_Q@lemmy.ca
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              2 months ago

              Yes it predates the country and continues from day 1. You win such a big skull you must have 1776 brain cells.

              • trafficnab@lemmy.ca
                1·
                2 months ago

                Yes it predates the country

                It seems you have read a book in the last 2 hours, I’m glad we’re in agreement that it doesn’t involve the US then

                • fah_Q@lemmy.ca
                  01·
                  2 months ago

                  I’m not in the business of arguing with dumb fucks. Clearly when they declared indepence from England they could have freed the slaves or you know sent them back to England, because you think it was the king who owned the slaves. Do you understand or should I draw you a picture with crayon?

    • ZK686@lemmy.worldEnglish
      03·
      2 months ago

      So, when are you getting involved into politics and changing things? I swear, some of you make it sound like you know better than all of our political leaders throughout history… it makes you wonder, with all these leaders making these “horrible” decisions, why is the US still one of the strongest countries in the world, and people are risking their lives to get here?

  • ZK686@lemmy.worldEnglish
    03·
    2 months ago

    “Only two people hate America. Those who have never been here, and those who have never left…”