• Verdant Banana@lemmy.world
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      11 hours ago

      the industrial revolution and the corporate takeover thereafter led to an increase in polluted soil, lower air quality

      the southern united states fell behind after the civil war having been burned down and was not rebuilt back up fully until the 1950s with deficits still remaining to today

      education is still drastically underfunded and the minimum wage along with any wages have stagnated in comparison to the rising food plus housing costs not to mention the rest playing into poorer mental health

      one plus one usually equals two and the easiest way to control a population is not fascism but restricting what living things need to grow/thrive

      not the citizens fault we were corralled into this toxic environment here much like industrialized farm animals not being at fault but if we do nothing as result then yes we are crazy and no better

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          There were some hopeful years during reconstruction, lots of black officials before Jim crow and kkk. It didn’t last because presidents after Lincoln abdicated their responsibility of educating the south and preventing voter/elected official intimidation.