• Sharkticon@lemmy.zip
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        7 days ago

        Hey remember Murdoch’s Australian. That hillbilly Island deserves a little bit of the blame.

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        5 days ago

        It’s like the English and the Scot’s. Or the Irish and the Scot’s. Or Scot and other Scot’s. They ruined Scotland!!!

    • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.uk
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      7 days ago

      You can connect those dots back a little further, if you try.

      “Okay smart guy, so Nixon?”

      Yes, but…

      “Ah, you’re about to mention the southern strategy.”

      Which happened because?

      “Alright, but it’s pretty tenuous to attribute the modern rise of fascism to failed reconstruction!”

      I wasn’t. I was going to attribute it to the existence of slavery in America. The seeds of this destruction were already planted at the beginning.

      (Sorry for this writing style, it started as a joke and I couldn’t make it properly funny while also making my point.)

      • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de
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        6 days ago

        Add in the north being settled by a mix of Christian fundamentalists and tax cheats, and you get whatever we’re calling this now.