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walkingman

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1. America in a nutshell

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Sun Aug 10, 2025, 11:24 AM

Aug 10

We are not faintly who we claim to be. Rather than a functioning republic, we are an ailing, flailing, perhaps even failing empire. We embrace war, glorify warriors, and profit mightily from the global arms trade, no matter the civilian toll, including tens of thousands of dead and wounded children in Gaza, among the latest victims of U.S.-made bombs, bullets, and missiles.

This is the most realistic description of America I have seen in a long time.

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