• BakerBagel@midwest.social
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    12 hours ago

    The LA race riots and Clintons going on about “super-predators” would like a word with you about racism going away in the 90’s

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      11 hours ago

      Didn’t say that it wasn’t there. Just that it got a lot worse after 9/11 and the following years.

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        10 hours ago

        9/11 was a pretext for doing what they wanted to do anyway. Kind of like how the Olympics in LA was the pretext they needed to militarize the police there.

        Finding a pretext isn’t hard, but sometimes events outside of your control just kinda hand one to you.

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        10 hours ago

        I’ve heard that the high tide was end of WW II. Sloping exponentially downwards, with the occasional oil boom or bust.