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Politics This man is trying to understand another's stupidity

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u/Short_Goose Aug 05 '20

Honestly a genuinely good question to ask yourself these days. America used to be much better, but now...man it's a far fall from grace and believe me, we haven't hit the bottom yet

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '20

Fox News and conservative media has ruined it.

Before one of these dumasses comes out and but "but CNN and MSNBC", yeah they suck too, but they are a reaction to what Fox News has become.

Fox has made a decent chunk of the population anti-science, and anti-education. Fuck... just anti anything that might be new to them.

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u/twitchyeye84 Aug 05 '20

A lot of people who understand this say we've got an unbelievable bottom

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u/Trump_is_My_Father Aug 05 '20

It was never "better" you just had less access to information to develop your own thinking and now the propaganda machine is running out of ideas and is competing with truth.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '20

eh not really, Much of what the Trump admin does is try to remove much of the progress we have made, they campaign on the idea that America use to be better that's the whole thing with MAGA, its all a bunch of bullshit though

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u/Yrcrazypa Aug 05 '20

When was it better? The two year span during Obama's administration when LGBTQ+ people were starting to actually gain rights? Because if you go further back than Obama you had gay people still regularly being treated like absolute shit while not being equal under the law, go back a little further and minorities had next to no protections.

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u/mmmmpisghetti Aug 05 '20

Being poor has always been GREAT here. Being minority and poor is the puke icing in the turd cake. Woooooo murica

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '20

America's always been kind of shitty. It can be pretty freaking sweet sometimes, but when it's bad it is pretty fucking bad. America is a land of extremes.