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[โ€“] Lumiluz@slrpnk.net 51 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

A lot of people here thinking the USA is speed running fascism here.

No, the USA was always an inspiration to fascism (just ask the remaining Native Americans as an example).

That's why it was able to adopt into it so quick. Not that hard to change a car to gasoline if it was already running on diesel.

[โ€“] Venator@lemmy.nz 18 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Not that hard to change a car to gasoline if it was already running on diesel.

Is almost a good analogy, but that's not so easy ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] Spezi@feddit.org 9 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Frying fat would have been better, because most older diesels run on it out of the box.

[โ€“] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago

Who gets their frying fat in a box?

[โ€“] Lumiluz@slrpnk.net 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Well it did take awhile, but it's definitely easier than turning a horse into an electric car

[โ€“] thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

just have to replace the engine, how hard could it be? /s

better analogy would be converting a (relatively modern) gas engine to E85, it's simpler, from what i understand

[โ€“] Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 7 hours ago

Before WW2 broke out, the New York Times LOVED Mussolini. They kept pumping out articles about how much of a cool guy he was.

[โ€“] Potatar@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

What if we called the original people Americans, and the newcomers immigrant Americans?

Clarity: Native American -> American

American -> Immigrant American

[โ€“] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

All life on land is an immigrant is it not?

[โ€“] Potatar@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Not really. Those are human made concepts, so you must start from the inception of the concept of immigration. Good luck finding the exact date, since it predates written language :/

Well since dates are human concepts as well we can just state it is immigration date 00/00/0000. Are the months or days first? That's up to you, haha. You make a good point, but you understand what I mean. If we consider immigration only being the integration into another state permanently then we would have to say we had mostly open immigration into the U.S. until the later parts of the 1800s. The first 99 years there were no real immigration laws here. (So roughly 40% of our history had no immigration restrictions for the most part)