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New plaque in the White House - this is real
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this post was submitted on 05 May 2026
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laughs in anarchist… yes. no country has ever been. all jokes aside, when was america good for you, at the same time time it’s been good for everyone?
No one ever claimed it was good. Just that we used to be a real country, not a complete joke.
ha! fair point.
Laughs in literalist:
"There was a point in recent history that a significant portion of the population, with enough sampling from ethnic subgroups, had decent opportunity to eke out a comfortable living. Those days that burn fresh in memory, are seemingly gone."
so there’s a line that’s defines “significant?”
because yeah. 40 years ago houses were affordable. but govs were still fire bombing city blocks in philly because some brown people upset them.
Really bad, but the difference is the volume and scale. US government oppressing ethnic minorities is a horrible act, but not a new one. US government deliberately oppressing a large fraction of the majority is.
Doesn't make it better or worse, but it is a marked shift
right. thats my point. there isn’t a scale such as a binary, thus it has never been a “good” (as in healthy) nation, in its black and white (again a binary) form.
i’m just trying to push a rhetoric that stops folks from pining for day bygone that were better. they have never been better, just different
contrasting two tail ends of a continuous spectrum still points to a shift, and the availability to place a wide threshold between them does imply a certain level of robustness when used as a binary classification