• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    Reagan through the 90s was the period where things visibly degraded to a joke of what the country once was. 9/11 was at once a direct symptom of our own fuckery over the preceding decades, as well as the final nail in the coffin that pushed large sections of our political landscape towards fascism. It was nascent for a while, but everything became fairly overt in 2016.

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      1 day ago

      Agreed on all points. I would argue it became overt 8 years prior; Obama was not the saint some like to think he was.