njm1314 comments on FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review. Experts are alarmed

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I can't wait to get back to real America. Back when they used lead to color milk and sometimes when you opened a container it'd just be filled with maggots. Back when thousands of people died every day due to milk contamination alone. Those sure were the days.

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The “real America” was a 50–60 year fluke of world history, and the chances of it coming back are one in a million.

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[–] FromPieces@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 day ago (1 child)

The "real America" these fucks are trying to get us back to is, ironically, the closest America came to socialism (which is to say, still really fucking far from close). They look at how much progress was made in this country under FDR, how powerful this country became despite its severe and bone-deep systemic issues with racism, imperialism, fascism, etc. with allll those problems, adding just the bare tiniest sliver of socialism which FDR introduced, made us something the right is willing to kill themselves (and all of us with them) to get back to. (Problem is, they're dumb shits and so fight in the exact opposite direction)

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago*

how powerful this country became despite its severe and bone-deep systemic issues with racism, imperialism, fascism, etc

It was because of those things, not in spite of them. FDR’s social safety net was built on the classical imperialist exploitation & neoliberal exploitation of the global south, and on the backs of black Americans, especially before the civil rights movement, but after as well.

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