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Point kinda holds, though. Ignoring the long-term consequences for short-term gain seems to also feature heavily in America.
The county was founded by generations of people who came here with little thought to long term consequences, so it tracks
ah yes, that short term Constitution that never held up /s
That was the second one. The first one was the Articles of Confederation. Lasted 8 years.
Hell, even the constitution is like a handful of good ideas, some terrible ones, and a README about how to make a pull request to add more features.
Yep only in America
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