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7. I think it'll be a long crawl back from where we're headed

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Mon May 18, 2026, 04:45 PM

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But if we do things the right way this time around, the country could come back stronger. Note that "if" and "right" do a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence. We fucked up reconstruction and we've been paying mortgage on that fuckup for 150 years. Among many other fuckups committed over the course of 2.5 centuries. Now everything about America is shitty and broken-down. We need to go through a rebuilding process, but first we need to clear the ledger to avoid a resurgence of white "Christian" nationalism. The world can't tolerate us this way.

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