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cachukis

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6. Our American exceptionalism is on full display.
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 08:34 AM
Aug 29

Only it is the few, whose brilliance we tried to share, that made it so. We allowed the world to reengineer our technology, we worked on rescue rather than preemptive attack.
The power was in the decision makers who contemplated the impact of those decisions.
Many mistakes have been made, but we believed in our best intentions.
But now we allowed those with self serving ideologies to have the power of modernity. Sadly, self management and decorum have been replaced by imposition of personal ideologies seeking identity.
They found it.
The cat is out of the bag.
Have not figured how to get the cat close to the bag, nevermind, in.
We are on a Nantucket Sleigh Ride and hope we don't get completely stove.

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