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Re: America, 1926: A forgotten 100-year-old report

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Post by weaksauce » Sat, Jul 04, 2026, 5:54 PM UTC

DaSHacka wrote: post #184

weaksauce wrote: post #126

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> Also, the Democrat party has steadily moved leftwards over time. the only way someone thinks this is if they have fox news blaring all day every day. the dems keep moving rightward step by step to appeal to "moderates" while the right wing keep moving the overton window even further right.

Mamdani and Spanberger are more right-wing than those who came before them?

I was speaking in general terms of the trend that spanned a long time and not to the rapid lefward swing in a few recent elections of a few candidates... the general trend of the party went rightward even if there are outliers. those elections were a reaction to how disastrous the republicans have been these past two years.

Re: America, 1926: A forgotten 100-year-old report

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Post by encrypted_bird » Sun, Jul 05, 2026, 2:10 AM UTC

stackghost wrote: post #45

miroljub wrote: post #18

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> As for WW3, well, there's a diaper-wearing senile old man, with an inferiority complex to boot, in charge of a nuclear arsenal and major conventional forces. How naive one must be to consider this NPC as the biggest threat to human kind since the dawn of man. It's not that single person who threatens the world, it's the complete American elite and the whole American society who push for wars and more wars, and the…

>It's not that single person who threatens the world, it's the complete American elite and the whole American society who push for wars and more wars, and the current NPC of the day in the office is just their tool. I agree that Americans themselves are the root cause. Americans as a society are deeply, pathologically unwell and Trump is entirely their fault. I have no sympathy for any of them. But only one person is…

You know, not all of us wished for him. Many of us not only saw all this coming from a mile away, but also fought against it every step of the way.

I would not say have pity for everyone, but at least have pity for those incompatible with our cruel society who are nevertheless stuck within it.

Re: America, 1926: A forgotten 100-year-old report

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Post by stackghost » Sun, Jul 05, 2026, 5:38 AM UTC

encrypted_bird wrote: post #192

stackghost wrote: post #45

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>It's not that single person who threatens the world, it's the complete American elite and the whole American society who push for wars and more wars, and the current NPC of the day in the office is just their tool. I agree that Americans themselves are the root cause. Americans as a society are deeply, pathologically unwell and Trump is entirely their fault. I have no sympathy for any of them. But only one person is…

You know, not all of us wished for him. Many of us not only saw all this coming from a mile away, but also fought against it every step of the way. I would not say have pity for everyone, but at least have pity for those incompatible with our cruel society who are nevertheless stuck within it.

It's too late for that excuse now.

Re: America, 1926: A forgotten 100-year-old report

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Post by Hikikomori » Sun, Jul 05, 2026, 10:25 AM UTC

Izkata wrote: post #158

throw0101d wrote: post #122

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> But to just state that "Life is so much better in 2026 than in 1926 for Americans" is obviously a pretty nebulous statement. Given that there was no antibiotics in 1926, no chemotherapy or radiation therapy for cancer, no public pensions (so good luck getting old), hardly any indoor plumbing (even by 1940 it was about half), I think life is much better now that one hundred years ago. What were infant mortality rate…

AC existed but was barely used until at least a decade or two later (window units invented in the 30s and full-home central AC in the 50s). One of the current social media trends is Europeans discovering what the US is actually like, having come here for the World Cup. A lot of them have apparently never experienced AC before and it's one of the major focuses in these clips for how life-changing it is.

Man this is dumb.

Re: America, 1926: A forgotten 100-year-old report

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Post by encrypted_bird » Sun, Jul 05, 2026, 10:13 PM UTC

stackghost wrote: post #193

encrypted_bird wrote: post #192

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You know, not all of us wished for him. Many of us not only saw all this coming from a mile away, but also fought against it every step of the way. I would not say have pity for everyone, but at least have pity for those incompatible with our cruel society who are nevertheless stuck within it.

It's too late for that excuse now.

It's not an excuse. Many of us saw this coming as far back as 2016, and tried every step of the way to fight against Trump's rise to power.

We are not all monsters. It's as simple as that.

Re: America, 1926: A forgotten 100-year-old report

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Post by miroljub » Mon, Jul 06, 2026, 3:05 PM UTC

pfdietz wrote: post #31

miroljub wrote: post #18

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> As for WW3, well, there's a diaper-wearing senile old man, with an inferiority complex to boot, in charge of a nuclear arsenal and major conventional forces. How naive one must be to consider this NPC as the biggest threat to human kind since the dawn of man. It's not that single person who threatens the world, it's the complete American elite and the whole American society who push for wars and more wars, and the…

It sometimes is a single person. Consider the failed beer hall demagogue who wrecked a nation, a continent, and nearly a world.

The issue with beer hall demagogue is that their rise has been made only while the society at that time was so devastated in every sense (morally, economically, ...) that people saw them as the only hope against the status quo.

That's the moral of the story: if the present is so bad, and the elites refuse to change anything and just go push for their agendas against the will and the interest of common people, common people will support the devil himself if he is the only one promising he'll do something different.