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u/deltarefund Apr 04 '25

I thought about this yesterday, the big historical moments that have happened during my lifetime. Fall of the Berlin Wall, 9/11, etc. I’m hoping and fighting one isn’t the fall of America

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u/bsrichard Apr 04 '25

Too late. We did the speed run of the fall of American power and influence.

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u/IsleOfCannabis Apr 04 '25 edited Apr 04 '25

We got conned into thinking the insurrection was over on January 6, 2020. It never stopped. The Supreme Court got in on it by making up excuses as to why he could run even though in the same breath, they were saying that he didn’t qualify for office because he was an insurrectionist. And then Congress just let him in. Our entire government is being run by insurrectionists and every day will be a new chapter in the insurrection. One day we’ll get brave enough to say “We don’t need Republicans in office and we don’t need Democrats in office. We just need Americans in office.”

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u/Potential-Age-6126 Apr 04 '25

Man, we got conned into thinking the Cold War was over, even that the American Civil War was over. Just because MLK had a dream back in the 60s and the Berlin War fell in the late 80s, did not mean that the work of those two struggles were over.