• cynetri (he/any)@midwest.socialEnglish
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    10 months ago

    as someone who sees both .world and hexbear users in this thread its kinda funny seeing how stark a difference the reaction to the meme is

  • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    The founding of America was a little rough but it’s amazing that they got as progressive as they did. Seeing as republicans nowadays support removing those fundamental rights that some old men laid out hundreds of years ago.

    Edit: guys guys calm down. Yes, I know about the slavery stuff. I’m just talking about the amendment, stuff like the first amendment about free speech. States like Florida immediately come to mind because they’re trying to erase and change history.

    • grazing7264 [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      10 months ago

      The American political system was built to manage the contradiction of having 30% of the southern population being black slaves. It was designed to have a “democracy” where it would take 400 years from black people arriving as slaves to still being mass incarcerated and killed in random violence today.

      You can’t accomplish that without having some veneer of democracy and fairness otherwise it would have been overthrown in a slave revolt in 1850 instead of being kept alive by false hope in the civil war.