Some patriotic reflections on Independence Day
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  • SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 days ago

    There is no more United States of America. It is now the MAGA People’s Republic of Yee-Haw Mannitude. The system allowed it. Just handed everything over to a dictator and the evil men who control him.

    There’s no coming back. No revolution. No foreign invasion to topple the regime. This is our lives, for the next 50 years at least.

  • DandomRude@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    3 days ago

    I find it remarkable that headlines like these are always phrased passively, as if it were a natural disaster sweeping across the country without anyone being responsible.

  • ExLisperA
    14·
    3 days ago

    “Once upon a time in America, there was a tyrant. And Congress rejected him totally. The tyrant, of course, was King George III”

    Constantly spewing bullshit like that is exactly why your democracy crashed. When everything is part of some mystical “greatest nation in the world” fairly tale it’s hard to recognize and defend truly important values.

    Congress didn’t reject the King because he was a tyrant. American elites rejected the King to establish new system where they could reap all the benefits. Then they enslaved people and committed genocide to enrich themselves. It was greed, not bravery that motivated them.