• Xanis@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Punish here isn’t meant as a short-term restriction or taking of freedoms. Punish is instead meant for the long term. While I cannot say as to what the correct option would have been, I will say we far too quickly, in reference to the passage of years from the Civil War to today, went from “FREE THEM!” to “Welp, aight, did that. Guess everything is good now.”

    It wasn’t good now.

    So what we failed to truly do was follow up and quash the little pockets that exist today much larger and with a damned ancient fruit as their lead.