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The destruction is the whole point. In a way we are in the shock therapy era of the US, experiencing what Russia went through post-USSR, which resulted in massi
by dgellow 2mo ago
The destruction is the whole point. In a way we are in the shock therapy era of the US, experiencing what Russia went through post-USSR, which resulted in massive corruption, wealth inequality, and development of an authoritarian regime.
Definitely feels very ironic
- noir_lord 2mo ago> At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer. If it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. - Lincoln. From the same speech where Lincoln then warned that a tyrant could overtake the U.S. political system from within... Not American but some of your 19th century politicians where spectacular orators.