• @[email protected]
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    821 year ago

    Upvoted because it’s criticising the un-united shithole of america with satire and also because people need to be made aware of the history of america that conservatives want to hide from you

    • @[email protected]
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      341 year ago

      Nobody’s really hiding the existence of slaves, so I’m not sure what you’re trying to say here

      • @[email protected]
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        421 year ago

        It’s not so much hiding as glazing over. The fact that anyone would argue that the civil war was about ‘states rights’ should tell you how poorly we recall our history

        I’ll never forget reading a textbook in high-school that acknowledged the genocide of the Native Americans before quickly moving on to talk about how stately and wise the people who killed them were

      • jon
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        111 year ago

        If you get your public education in the deep south, you’ll get a lot of lost-cause revisionist history. Everything from “the civil war really had nothing to do with slavery” to “slaves were actually treated very well”.

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    691 year ago

    The quote continues with roughly “the north asked the south if they want to live in an America with slavery where other races are exploited for prosperity, or one where they pretend they don’t”

  • BarqsHasBite
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    This always gets me. We’re told land of freedom and opportunity and all that. It was literally founded on slavery. And women couldn’t vote.

    Beau of the fifth column says it so well: you’re taught American mythology, not American history.

  • @[email protected]
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    401 year ago

    Philomena Cunk was written by Charlie Brooker, who also has written Black Mirror, Dead Set, Death to 2020 and A Touch of Cloth.

    • @Ausprobierer
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      111 year ago

      Damn, looks like I got to comb through my fucking 5 subscription services again for some titles. Honestly though, thanks for this.

  • sentient_loom
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    91 year ago

    “These days people spend thousands of dollars to visit the sun-kissed islands of the Caribbean. But in the 1700s you could go there for free, if you were black and you didn’t want to go there.”
    -also Cunk

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    The show is very inconsistent.

    While some jokes are phenomenal others are just unfunny and straight up cringey.

    Still worth a watch as some stuff is genuinely good.