• Aqarius@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    Point kinda holds, though. Ignoring the long-term consequences for short-term gain seems to also feature heavily in America.

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      The county was founded by generations of people who came here with little thought to long term consequences, so it tracks

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          That was the second one. The first one was the Articles of Confederation. Lasted 8 years.

          Hell, even the constitution is like a handful of good ideas, some terrible ones, and a README about how to make a pull request to add more features.