- it's the failure to realise that the most interesting thing about a world without the modern US is what that means for everyone ELSE.
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But that's the one story US TV won't tell: one where America isn't just broken, but SMALL. One where it DOESN'T still Matter The Most.
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If the planned political arc of Confederate doesn't somehow end with whatever new "America" emerges being The Greatest, I will eat a rock.
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I feel like the central tension in US storytelling is between power fantasy and the "underdog overcomes insurmountable odds" story
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There's an idea that facing insurmountable odds inherently makes someone virtuous but aversion to stories about _actual marginalized people_
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