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Feb 28, 2025

What They Built

Of course, not everything is great just because it's been around for a long time.

But there are old things we should protect and defend with our lives. Things that were built by great people - who, BTW, were mostly regular everyday folks who became giant historic figures by standing up and fighting for a new idea that had been around for centuries, but had only been enshrined in practical form for about 100 years.

They fought and they bled and hundreds of thousands of them died for an important concept that often meant something different to practically every one of them - like one guy said: "I'm fighting for my right to boo the Dodgers."

But there was always a common thread: an orderly world where at least the concept of the freedom of self-determination can be a dream within reach of everybody everywhere.

That order - that dream - is worth preserving. It's worth fighting for. It's worth the sacrifice we're going to have to make if we want the sacrifice of those other regular everyday people to stand for something more than a few extra bucks in some rich fuck's pocket. 


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