• aesthelete@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    That’s not true, we had a good run from the forties until I was born in the eighties. A whole forty years of some amount of power!

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      17 days ago

      do you understand how much of the civil rights movement has happened since the eighties?

      we’ve made them make concessions before. we’ve won before. we could win again.

      and you… you have no idea how badly i wish i believed what i just said.

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        17 days ago

        Yeah I guess before the full weight of the citizens united decision killed what was left we eaked out a bit of stuff.