As someone who was in NY whose family died in the first tower on 9/11 first thing you need to understand America is not a fictional movie. This isn’t some playground the entire country isn’t Disney land. I say this too as an immigrant. That the country and its war mongering in Iraq are big things that happened that lead to President tangerine . The issues that are hard to understand are the small steps the little things each and every political figure did to shift this country towards the fuckery it’s currently in and the citizens apathy in those actions have shifted thus melting pot into a powder keg

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