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America has become a sadistic country (Original Post) cilla4progress Jul 2 OP
Always has been. RockRaven Jul 2 #1
I read somewhere recently Tree Lady Jul 2 #2
Twas ever thus. This is nothing new. WhiskeyGrinder Jul 2 #3
What is different in this time is the malevolence Hey Joe Jul 2 #4
America has an evil government. GoodRaisin Jul 2 #5
Can't think of a time when it wasn't. Solly Mack Jul 2 #6
GWB regime legalized torture BWdem4life Jul 2 #7
Our treatment of Native Americans róisín_dubh Jul 2 #8

Hey Joe

(97 posts)
4. What is different in this time is the malevolence
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 10:44 PM
Jul 2

and cruelty being displayed with such celebratory glee by our own politicians and their cronies on a daily basis. And all for the pleasure of the president whose narcissistic whims demand it.
Never seen anything like this in my almost fifty years of paying attention to politics.

BWdem4life

(2,547 posts)
7. GWB regime legalized torture
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 11:40 PM
Jul 2

and as others have pointed out, our country has never lived up to its lofty ideals. But yes, the shit has kicked into overdrive under rump.

róisín_dubh

(12,068 posts)
8. Our treatment of Native Americans
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 11:55 PM
Jul 2

And enslaved black Americans suggests we always have been.
Looking the other way whilst our government supported the torture, rape and slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Guatemalan Indigenous and leftists suggests we always have been.
And rinse and repeat in Latin America, Asia and Africa.
Millions of Americans are selfish, racist and intellectually lazy and always have been.

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