• ladicius@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    That a…hole really marked a turning point, and Thatcher and Kohl transferred the evil to Europe.

    We could have had a kind and healthy world and got a hellscape of hatred and greed instead.

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      Welllll…capitalism was always on a less than virtuous path. The robber barons, the long history of violent attacks on strikers…capitalism was never going to let us be happy. We pie had to fight for everything we’ve won.

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        If they failed to steal that one, they were going to steal the next one. 2000 wasn’t some kind of fluke. It was an organized, targeted effort to change tje political landscape, and it had been in progrwss for many years at that point. They weren’t going to stop if they fell a little short.