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I want America to go back to being as it was before
by apples_oranges 5mo ago
I want America to go back to being as it was before
- gib444 5mo ago17th century America would be ideal ! Then again as a Brit I am a bit biased
- Ekaros 5mo agoI have always said that going back 1400s would be best.
- bryanrasmussen 5mo ago1346 target year, with a good supply of ciprofloxacin.
- pjc50 5mo agoSlavery-era America was .. not a good place for everyone.
- guzfip 5mo agoI’ll take 19th century for the homesteading act. The government should give away its excess land to me, not sell it to their cronies.
- BigTTYGothGF 5mo agoThere's a lot fewer Native Americans left to genocide these days tho.
- tristramb 5mo agoBut it was like this before. Its just that now the sewer that was keeping it all hidden has now broken and it is spewing out all over the world.
- picsao 5mo ago[dead]
- praptak 5mo agoYou can't go back. When Trump goes away, the conditions that let him rise to power are still there.
- formerly_proven 5mo agoSome 120 million americans currently approve of the Trump II administration :)
- therobots927 5mo agoToo bad they didn’t vote
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- llmthrow0827 5mo agoBack when it used military power to commit war crimes the world over, and gained or maintained financial capital supremacy from it? As compared to now, when it can only use military power to commit war crimes on a smaller scale, and is throwing away American hegemony in the process?
- EdwardDiego 5mo agoYeah actually that was preferable. Go look at the fuel prices around the world if you want to analyse why.
- llmthrow0827 5mo agoI don't mind paying more at the pump in the short term if it means the end of the American empire.
- fmajid 5mo agoIn a delicious irony, Trump is accelerating the transition to renewables he hates so much.
- BigTTYGothGF 5mo agoFuel prices need to be a lot higher.
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- throwaway290 5mo agoWhen it was stable and didn't do bad things blatantly like it's the norm.
- MSFT_Edging 5mo ago> didn't do bad things blatantly like it's the norm. Sorry to break it to you, but heads in sand doesn't make history not happen...
- inglor_cz 5mo agoIronically, that is what MAGA wants as well. The trouble is that everyone chooses their own favorite bits from the past and ignores the rest, plus succumbs to unrealistically positive stereotypes about the past.
- cucumber3732842 5mo agoBack when we justified foreign wars with Domino theory and it must be true because Walter Cronkite would never repeat something that wasn't a rigorously validated fact? Or maybe 20ish years before that when we violently restructured the government or Iran at the behest of supposed allies? Or how about when we sold our industry overseas because a steel mill who's pollution we can't control on the other side of the world is better than one in Ohio? It boggles the mind that people cannot grasp that the sum total of bad and shortsighted decisions of the past are what created the present conditions.
- fleroviumna 5mo ago[dead]
- dgellow 5mo agoThat’s gone. There is no going back in life
- vrganj 5mo agoMe too. Pre-Columbus would be preferred.
- treebeard901 5mo agoAmerica used to be great. Can someone make it that way again?
- logicchains 5mo agoThis isn't new; in the 1960s France sent ships to take back its gold from the US to avoid losing it.
- exiguus 5mo agoIt’s always been convenient for Europeans to have America do the dirty work, which is why they could afford to keep military spending so low and deps to gas and oil high. That just doesn’t work anymore. And then there’s China, and I’m told that China has already surpassed the U.S. in many areas. If China takes Taiwan by force, we know that the West and the U.S. will have nothing left to stand up to them.