It was a different time, when leaders had principles, morals, and basic humanity. Nowadays we prefer soulless corrupt psychopaths to brutalise us while feathering their own nest.
this post was submitted on 13 May 2025
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........I don't prefer it.
I really dislike when people say “we”. I did not vote for the orange man.
I mean tbf the guy (elected) before him was Nixon.
And then followed by Regan
Lee Harvey Oswald killed America.
The 1960's were rough for a lot of reasons but four of the highest profile assassinations in US (or even world) history occuring within five years has to be right at the top.
John F. Kennedy in 1963,
Malcolm X in 1965,
Martin Luther King in 1968,
Bobby Kennedy in 1968
Nixon did his damnedest, before winning the 1968 election, to prolong the Vietnam War in hopes of leveraging the conflict for political gain.
I can't even comprehend being so ruthlessly evil that I would gladly fling tens of thousands of people into a wood chipper to boost my political career.
It's genuinely insane and I don't know how every remotely level headed person in the US isn't marching on Washington.
3000 miles is a long way to march, for starters.
It turns out (with the right optics) none of that stuff really matters. Attention/fame trump all.
gotta keep earning money to buy food so you don't die
Yeah but peanuts are dumb, and crypto is cool, so.
What do you mean by "you people"
People of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know...
/s
Morons.