my own "don't get me started" horse is that the torture memos were the actual "that's the end of this country" moment. plenty of friends will point out the US aid both known and covert to e.g. Pinochet (et al) indicates that claims of moral stature for the US were already bullshit, and fair enough..
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Simon McGarr
In 2001 the Bush White house found a lawyer who gave them a set of memos, culminating in one in particular, which said torture was legal.
Afterwards, he had no bad consequences and was hired to teach at Yale
Consequences for this sort of thing, or everything is a rehersal for the next, worse thing
Afterwards, he had no bad consequences and was hired to teach at Yale
Consequences for this sort of thing, or everything is a rehersal for the next, worse thing
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Morbid irony. #MeToo delayed by decades. Ginny funded #Jan6th.
As an elder, I think NOT prosecuting Nixon was an inflection point, too.
But yeah, the torture memo? Beyond the pale.
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It’s like the whole world is watching the US realize just how bad they’ve let their country become
Their culture (🤑) pushed the “rugged individualism” of the American Dream so much that they’d trained out all communalism so until it was everyone, no one saw how bad it was getting