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In reply to the discussion: How will you explain this period of American history to your grandchild/great-grandchild? [View all]

Midnight Writer

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17. America is an internal combustion engine burning corrupted gasoline.
Reply to True Dough (Original post)
Sat May 23, 2026, 12:26 PM
8 hrs ago

It has started sputtering, and soon it will seize up altogether.

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How will you explain this period of American history to your grandchild/great-grandchild? [View all] True Dough 12 hrs ago OP
I won't pretend to understand it The Blue Flower 12 hrs ago #1
Evil people took over the country. dem4decades 12 hrs ago #2
Well, I probably won't have to, but I would refer to it as our "Period of Intense Shame' hlthe2b 12 hrs ago #3
They are living it right along side us... MiHale 12 hrs ago #4
allow what to happen? rampartd 11 hrs ago #5
There have been many equally shameful periods of American history, we seem to have short memories. sop 11 hrs ago #6
The same way it continues to let it happen -- by refusing to dismantle the white supremacy this country is built on. WhiskeyGrinder 11 hrs ago #7
I have neither so I won't be faced with that problem, which is a good thing Ocelot II 11 hrs ago #8
We allowed the Fox Propaganda Network to go unchecked and we weren't ready to handle social media Chasstev365 11 hrs ago #9
And some people are gullible, unfortunately, True Dough 11 hrs ago #10
In Chinese Renew Deal 10 hrs ago #11
Will our plutocracy be gone then? Mysterian 10 hrs ago #12
Our ancestors killed the Nazis abroad but we were too scared to send the modern domestic ones screaming down to hell. Efilroft Sul 8 hrs ago #13
Assuming things get better, I'll say, "It was a time of multiple, grand, society-wide psychoses." Intractable 8 hrs ago #14
They won't be learning anything in school gulliver 8 hrs ago #15
Are schools teaching about 2016 in History classes now? muriel_volestrangler 8 hrs ago #16
When I was in high school in the early '90s, True Dough 5 hrs ago #19
I didn't study anything under 30 years ago when I was at school muriel_volestrangler 5 hrs ago #20
America is an internal combustion engine burning corrupted gasoline. Midnight Writer 8 hrs ago #17
Because almost 40% of eligible voters stayed at home and even though they saw what was coming.... A HERETIC I AM 6 hrs ago #18
I'd try and explain it akin to the rise of Hitler sakabatou 5 hrs ago #21
Like the Inclosure Acts, there was a lot of common property that a few individuals fenced off meadowlander 5 hrs ago #22
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