• @DarkFuture
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    422 days ago

    Americans are NOT pathetic

    Buddy, we just RE-ELECTED a convicted felon and rapist who instigated an insurrection and illegally attempted to overturn an election AFTER we already fired him for massively failing, including in regards to the biggest crisis America has experienced since WW2. A guy that has openly stated he is anti-union and worker rights. We can’t even get on the same page about healthcare, despite having examples from other first world countries across the globe showing what we could do to better our situation. We targeted black people (still are), then gay people (still are), and now we’ve moved on to targeting trans people. Wealth disparity is increasing by the year. Billionaires OWN our politics top to bottom.

    We’re categorically fucking pathetic.

    • luce [they/she]
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      2 days ago

      I don’t think this speaks to how pathetic Americans are, but instead to how much the rich have us under their thumb.

      We need to start working against atomization if we want things to get better, and I think this is/was a really good way to bring people together. Talk to the uninformed people in your life, be the healthy opposition to their beliefs that many people dont have. Make them understand who their real enemies are.

      It is in the upper classes best interest that we close ourselves off, entering echochambers as we talk about how evil it is for someone to disagree with our own beliefs.

    • @NineMileTower
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      US politics are a ship. They don’t turn on a dime. We are headed in a better direction in the grand scheme. Short downturns happen. When Bush was president everyone thought the government was going to become a Christofacist regime. The end of times are not near. If you truly believe there is no hope, then why aren’t you taking to the streets with violence? I think THAT’S pathetic. You think the end is coming and you just sit and bitch online and do nothing.

      • skulblaka
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        21 day ago

        You watched the news even once in the last ten years? What the fuck do you think the BLM and Antifa movements were about, planting daisies?

        • @NineMileTower
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          01 day ago

          So we are in agreement, right? America isn’t full of pathetic do-nothings.