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minus-squareBlue_Morpho@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up30·3 days agoBefore the election I talked to an old friend. He’s into WW2 history. He loves history about how Americans trashed the Japanese and Nazis. He was playing the “centrist” game when politics came up. He even suggested that America having a dictator is maybe what we need. I thinks that’s average America. Americans cheering for because we beat Nazis while simultaneously wanting to be a Nazi.
Before the election I talked to an old friend. He’s into WW2 history. He loves history about how Americans trashed the Japanese and Nazis.
He was playing the “centrist” game when politics came up. He even suggested that America having a dictator is maybe what we need.
I thinks that’s average America. Americans cheering for because we beat Nazis while simultaneously wanting to be a Nazi.