• Skyrmir@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    If not for Reagan, then Newt never would have been elected. Id not for Nixon, then Reagan never would have been elected.

    It a continuous line of fail that goes back to the founding of the country.

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      7 months ago

      Does it really? did it also get a large kickstart sometime between the American civil war operation paperclip?

      Honest question

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        7 months ago

        Lincoln’s assassination was a pretty big part of the south getting away with their insurrection.

        But the constitution was fucked by the slave drivers from the start. And it ends with our non-representative congress, and presidents elected with a minority of the popular vote.

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          7 months ago

          In the end it was all because of Eve and that stupid apple, or maybe the snake. Why was there a tree in the first place? Also was it really necessary to make a universe? Now that’s where the trouble really started!