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What If America Fucked Off and Ghosted WWII?

Send us Fan MailAlright, buckle up, you magnificent bastards, because the historical record (and a very weird dream I had after eating a questionable kebab) tells us this is 100% how it could've gone down. The year is 1941. Pearl Harbor happens, but instead of FDR getting all righteously pissed off, a new, shockingly popular isolationist president—let’s call him Charles "Don’t Bother Me" Lindbergh—gets on the radio and announces the national policy is now officially "You Do You." America, he declares, is taking a hard pass on this whole "World War" thing. We’re ghosting the group chat…

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