• don@lemm.ee
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    It was officially over quite a long time ago. Are you just now waking up?

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      George Carlin said “It’s called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it” 20 years ago. This is how America has always been, people are only now starting to wake up to that.

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        It wasn’t always like this, but it has been for a long time, and it has been my entire lifetime for certain.

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            Yeah I mean I don’t think it was intended for anyone other than white men, but we did build a middle class before destroying it with neoliberal garbage politics and global capitalism shortly thereafter.