• ramble81@lemmy.zip
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    17 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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      15 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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      I’ve heard that the high tide was end of WW II. Sloping exponentially downwards, with the occasional oil boom or bust.