• Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee
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      27 days ago

      Ah I had to look that up. For the other non-yanks -

      Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

      So how did that work out for yous then?

      • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
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        27 days ago

        Worked great for a little while, the Post-WWII Economic Expansion is how we got the Boomers, whose spoiled asses pulled the ladder up behind them.

        So, like most things, the theory worked great until it was ruined by humans