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    7 days ago

    American Democratic Ethos

    Not sure which slaveholders or Manifest Destiny folks you’re putting on a pedestal, but even if—big if—America’s dead once had admirable and pro-humanity values, today’s terrified, uneducated, unhappy, unkind, impoverished shithole does not.

    Being an awful person appears to reflect perfectly these last generations of the American Empire.