[aeim]

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[grues-dinner]

The "American Dream" has always been a mixture of a thought-terminating cliché and mass delusion. No matter how much ink is spilled over it or how many hands are wrung about the death of it, you'll never actually get two Americans to agree on what it is, past a nebulous something about "freedom".

It was just easy to not worry too much about that it when sitting pretty on 10 million square km of super-defensible natural resources while the rest of the world burned itself down twice over entrenched legacy bullshit. But now there's been time to brew up just as much domestic legacy bullshit and geopolitics and the media environment doesn't yet support a unifying us-vs-them narrative (by God they're trying) to cut through it.

[PaulDavisThe1st]

> 10 million square km of super-defensible

With a 2000 mile southern border that is extraordinarily hard to defend, and a somewhat longer northern border that we've never actually had to think about defending.

[financetechbro]

I feel like American culture has anyways been elusive and dynamic

[scooke]

Are you American, in America?