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I want America to go back to being as it was before
by apples_oranges 7mo ago
I want America to go back to being as it was before
- gib444 7mo ago17th century America would be ideal ! Then again as a Brit I am a bit biased
- Ekaros 7mo agoI have always said that going back 1400s would be best.
- bryanrasmussen 7mo ago1346 target year, with a good supply of ciprofloxacin.
- pjc50 7mo agoSlavery-era America was .. not a good place for everyone.
- guzfip 7mo agoI’ll take 19th century for the homesteading act. The government should give away its excess land to me, not sell it to their cronies.
- BigTTYGothGF 7mo agoThere's a lot fewer Native Americans left to genocide these days tho.
- praptak 7mo agoYou can't go back. When Trump goes away, the conditions that let him rise to power are still there.
- formerly_proven 7mo agoSome 120 million americans currently approve of the Trump II administration :)
- therobots927 7mo agoToo bad they didn’t vote
- tristramb 7mo agoBut it was like this before. Its just that now the sewer that was keeping it all hidden has now broken and it is spewing out all over the world.
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- llmthrow0827 7mo agoBack when it used military power to commit war crimes the world over, and gained or maintained financial capital supremacy from it? As compared to now, when it can only use military power to commit war crimes on a smaller scale, and is throwing away American hegemony in the process?
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- throwaway290 7mo agoWhen it was stable and didn't do bad things blatantly like it's the norm.
- MSFT_Edging 7mo ago> didn't do bad things blatantly like it's the norm. Sorry to break it to you, but heads in sand doesn't make history not happen...
- throwaway290 7mo agoI totally agree. Just remember that current events also happen and become history. maybe you picked your side, that's your choice.
- throwaway290 7mo agoSorry to break it to you but vague empty remarks don't make arguments happen. One of us has head in the sand but you're wrong who it is.
- MSFT_Edging 7mo agoCrazy how you replied twice, two hours apart. Vietnam is still suffering from agent orange.
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- inglor_cz 7mo agoIronically, that is what MAGA wants as well. The trouble is that everyone chooses their own favorite bits from the past and ignores the rest, plus succumbs to unrealistically positive stereotypes about the past.
- cucumber3732842 7mo agoBack when we justified foreign wars with Domino theory and it must be true because Walter Cronkite would never repeat something that wasn't a rigorously validated fact? Or maybe 20ish years before that when we violently restructured the government or Iran at the behest of supposed allies? Or how about when we sold our industry overseas because a steel mill who's pollution we can't control on the other side of the world is better than one in Ohio? It boggles the mind that people cannot grasp that the sum total of bad and shortsighted decisions of the past are what created the present conditions.
- fleroviumna 7mo ago[dead]
- dgellow 7mo agoThat’s gone. There is no going back in life
- vrganj 7mo agoMe too. Pre-Columbus would be preferred.
- treebeard901 7mo agoAmerica used to be great. Can someone make it that way again?
- logicchains 7mo agoThis isn't new; in the 1960s France sent ships to take back its gold from the US to avoid losing it.
- exiguus 7mo agoIt’s always been convenient for Europeans to have America do the dirty work, which is why they could afford to keep military spending so low and deps to gas and oil high. That just doesn’t work anymore. And then there’s China, and I’m told that China has already surpassed the U.S. in many areas. If China takes Taiwan by force, we know that the West and the U.S. will have nothing left to stand up to them.