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[–] Naich@lemmings.world 64 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

........I don't prefer it.

[–] radiohead37@lemmynsfw.com 18 points 1 month ago

I really dislike when people say “we”. I did not vote for the orange man.

[–] CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

I mean tbf the guy (elected) before him was Nixon.

[–] arrow74@lemm.ee 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And then followed by Regan

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It's genuinely insane and I don't know how every remotely level headed person in the US isn't marching on Washington.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 23 points 1 month ago

3000 miles is a long way to march, for starters.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

It turns out (with the right optics) none of that stuff really matters. Attention/fame trump all.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 weeks ago

gotta keep earning money to buy food so you don't die

[–] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Yeah but peanuts are dumb, and crypto is cool, so.

[–] LewZephyr@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

What do you mean by "you people"

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

People of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know...

/s