• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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    It’s a bit like Brandolini’s law, recovering from a right wing government takes way more energy and sacrifice than the energy and sacrifice needed by the right wing government to destroy everything.

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      “Destruction is the work of an afternoon; creation is the work of a lifetime.” (Paraphrased)

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      “Rome wasn’t built in a day, but it was burned in one.”

      (technically the Great Fire of Rome lasted 9 days, but ‘9 days’ is less pithy)