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[–] 37 points 14 hours ago (5 children)

I like seeing empire mask off. The PR of decades past has allowed the word to forgive American crimes, it’s harder to do when we see it laid bare.

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  • [–] 19 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

    Having seen both, I like mask on.

    No doubt, Obama and Trump are both criminals. For me, the difference is the culture of cruelty His Supreme Excellence has cultivated.

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  • [–] 17 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

    They are both criminals - war criminals. But the main difference is the blatant corruption and dismantling of the rule of law. Trump is a war criminal and a political/civil criminal while obama, like all non-trump presidents, is mainly just a war criminal.

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  • [–] 7 points 13 hours ago

    Yeah it's weird, mask off seems to have eroded people's ability for outrage.

    I'm not sure if it's any better. I'm not sure what will cause people to care enough to demand change. So far fucking gas prices has done more to get the average person woke than anything.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 hours ago*

    right? i'm sure it happened a bit with actual reagan but who the fuck else had cultists literally crying with joy in the streets as they pray to them as a god? Who else inspired "normal" people to storm the fucking white house?

    With trump it's like a fucking far cry game

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  • [–] 8 points 14 hours ago

    I think you have a good point here.

    I only wish this had led to an actual reckoning of the country’s true history rather than the much more common reaction, “Trump ruined our great country!”

    Much like instead of reflection about neo-colonialism after 9/11, Bush spat out “they hate our freedoms.”

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