• @meeeeetch
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    531 month ago

    This line dropped as the second George W Bush term was getting underway. It felt super relevant then, too (I actually viewed him and Cheney as worse than Trump until he actively worsened COVID). But this term’s opening has been so bad so fast that the line really does hit different.

    • @IndustryStandard
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      141 month ago

      Star Wars was heavily inspired by American politics. It was basically the Vietnam war in space.

    • @[email protected]
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      81 month ago

      These concepts have played out in many different civilizations long before (and during) America. This is why studying history is important–and also why dictators try to erase it.

      • @untorquer
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        31 month ago

        If it’s not in the records it doesn’t exist.

    • @[email protected]
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      030 days ago

      Bush killed a million Iraqis in a war he fabricated to force feed the MIC and oil complexes $8 trillion dollars.

      He was worse than Trump until Trump decided to dismantle democracy entirely