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Now a majority apparently disagrees with the current shit yet media is totally silent.

NPR just said over 60% of Americans oppose this war. How is that totally silent?

Edit: You somehow know the majority disagrees. What silent media did you learn this from?

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    I was always proud to from the USA up until W and the Iraq war. My pride has been flagging ever since.

    Having said that, to find out what it means to be US American, one has to know one's heritage. This, of course, will be different for each individual but my heritage is one of the most common, that being ancestors from the British Isles and Germany. That does not diminish, in my mind, the contributions of other cultures. Those other cultures, particularly African and Spanish, help contribute to making me now different from my British/German heritage, thus American. There are many of my heritage who want to pretend other influences don't exist. They forget ... E Pluribus Unum - Out of Many One.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Dredd Scott was overruled by the 13th and 14th amendments to the constitution.

    Fun fact: one of the reasons the court decided that Blacks weren't fully human was that, if they were, they would have to be granted the right to keep and bear arms. The court couldn't countenance such a thing.

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