Post AXjLO0KeycIsb3YEz2 by spherulitic@tech.lgbt
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 (DIR) Post #AXgb0N39sQRhtfEo2y by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2023-07-14T12:55:10Z
       
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       Thinking back? it’s shocking Hamilton was a real musical— and a popular one! It’s almost too transparent with its weird liberal post-racial subtexts.  The entire concept? a hot mess. But no one said “no. we are not doing this!”The American zeitgeist had a hunger in that moment. Like John Henry & Joe Magarac… & the boy George Washington who could not tell a lie— we desperately needed a less ugly history for what looked to be (in the eyes of liberals) a nation that might just be cool after all.
       
 (DIR) Post #AXgb0NmX9ik4AOT2m0 by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2023-07-14T13:10:03Z
       
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       I think everyone has mostly come out of that haze of thinking America could be cool. We produce cool. It’s our most popular export. But the nation is not and never will *be* cool.
       
 (DIR) Post #AXgb0Oas8Z0YgW1FEe by john@sauropods.win
       2023-07-14T13:13:51Z
       
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       @futurebird  Nations can’t be cool, and I hate that they live rent-free in our heads.
       
 (DIR) Post #AXjLO0KeycIsb3YEz2 by spherulitic@tech.lgbt
       2023-07-14T16:42:36Z
       
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       @futurebird @lisamelton this is it exactly. In the late Obama years it fit right in with the feeling that the “American experiment” was messy and difficult, but maybe somehow working. Then the Trump years happened and now it’s impossible to watch Hamilton without rolling your eyes so hard you might injure yourself. It soured incredibly quickly when it became clear that Obama’s years weren’t turning a new page, but a pause in the reactionary tide that’d been rising against the Civil Rights movement for 60 years.