• hypeerror
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    4 days ago

    It can be fixed. We started this place with owning people and you only vote with a white penis. I’m worried that we’ll give the next generation less than what I or my parents had.

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      3 days ago

      I have two kids in college now. Helping them grow up has been a fantastic experience and totally changed the way I look at the world. I definitely grew more hopeful, more progressive, more optimistic about the long term prospects of the world they would inherit.

      Trumps first term was quite a shock, especially discovering there were so many toxic people seeming to want to wreck all of our future. And somehow it happened again?

      One of my kids is “non-traditional “, now they’re talking about being afraid to travel in most of the US. How did all that “Hope and Change” come crashing down so fast?

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        3 days ago

        Was it ever there?

        Sundown Towns. Ugly Laws. Banana Republics. I’m sure if you asked any minority group, they’d show you a very different America.

        There are two versions of the US: the one sold to immigrants on the Statue of Liberty, and the one that’s really there. White folk were just privileged enough with such a system that we never saw it, or if we did we looked the other way.

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          2 days ago

          Maybe, but there’s clearly a huge difference among regions/states/cities, and we always have the hope of everyone acting like the best places rather than the worst