• enbyecho@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      American a died a long time ago.

      This is such a stupidly lazy thing to say

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        5 months ago

        In the sense of what it supposedly represented, and in the sense of it’s land and people, it most certainly is. What we call America today is nothing more than a machine, a meat grinder that has superseded what came before it in all but name.

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          5 months ago

          America has been a meat grinder the whole time and never really represented any of the things we claim it did. All men were created equal but slavery and genocide were fine? If anything we’re closer to that ideal now than we ever have been