• panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    Maybe what pisses me off so much about the Trump admin is that they forget everything that made America great in the first place.

    It isn’t that Americans were chosen by god or anything like that. It’s that America fought for freedom and democracy, and those ideas allowed the people and economy to flourish (I won’t downplay that taking vast swathes of land from natives and slavery also helped build America).

    Who could read the poem on the Statue of Liberty and say that America is just for a chosen few? The whole American dream was that you could go there and get a fair slice of the pie.

    They forget about how the Irish were treated with the same disdain they throw at Latino people. They forget that their ancestors had to work.

    They’re just so fucking spoiled, like a bratty child that has had everything handed to them assuming they’re special and forgetting they stand on the backs of all those before them.

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      1 month ago

      Since World War 2 , Americans have been hugely spoiled and they have taken more from the world than anyone ever before. THAT had to run out some time, and Donny 2 Dolls has just hastened that process. I wouldn’t be surprised if America became a third world country tbh, now that the silver plate they had everything served up on, has been stolen by Donny 2 Inches. There will be a small, extremely wealthy class, and then everyone else with shitty employment prospects, no social security or health provisions. Food stamps, gone. TBH there really should be a revolution, but as we’ve seen, despite being the most heavily armed population in history, Americans are sheep and will just bend over and take it some more, no lube.