Like I know not everyone is a political commentator and won’t touch politics for fear of ostracizing their audience.
But sometimes seeing most creators not expressing any shock at these unprecedented times makes me think “damn this seems dystopian”.
I imagine what would the world be like if streaming was available during Hitlers rise.
Would people just be living in their bubble of “thanks for watching, hit like and subscribe, and if you use this code on simplisafe you’ll get 20 percent off!” winky face
Idk if I could do it, never talk about it or taking a stand. Its just too big to ignore. At least imo.
What do you guys think? Also lemmy wanted me to add a picture so here’s a picture of my dog.
Sadly, 99% of people - wherever they live - won’t really do or say anything until it affects them personally.
I refuse to believe 99 out of a hundred people are so broken by capitalism that they won’t help others for the sake of it. I think we are so alienated from eachother and so exhausted from labor that we are rarely in situations where helping others is an option. Further, the ways in which we define help so individualized that the impact of it is minimal. we aren’t in situations where our help is meaningful, we are too exhausted and isolated to make the extra effort, and most of us don’t even consider community action as an option.
People want to help others, they just don’t know how
Especially if it might hurt their income.
For most Americans, their income is their survival.
Also, I hear all this stuff about everyone but the actual people doing this. Why isn’t anyone holding the Republican politician’s feet to the fire. They’re the only, and I mean only, ones who are able to stop this. They need to step the fuck up.
Rich McCormick (R-GA) held a town hall over the weekend, and his constituents definitely tried to hold his feet to the fire. I suspect his peers have learned from his lesson and won’t be holding any constituent outreach until the chaos is safely over.
Wasn’t there another type of meeting like that and all the GOP representatives just didn’t show up or send anyone? Yeah, they won’t show up to have people yell at them.
https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/02/21/republican-lawmakers-no-show-as-western-wisconsin-farmers-complain-of-trump-chaos-disruption/
Then you go to their homes and yell at them from the street.
The people supporting the Republicans doing this believe the Republicans are doing the right thing.
You’ll see an occasional post on social media about someone who voted for them but now regret it… but the vast vast majority continue to support them.
Well, good governance is making sure the ‘basics’ are taken cared of for everybody (voters want to be safe/happy, and want those who they love/care about to also be safe/happy), and then expanding out from there with policy to “move the ball down the field” of progress. But thats not how we govern currently.
The issue is that some people see ‘everybody’ as just their own little tribe vs everybody else, and others see it as literally everybody else besides themselves.
Then the discussions/debates get down into the mud of how much we owe it to each other to take care of each other, vs just taking care of ourselves, etc.
We, as a species, need to figure out if its “All for One, and One for All” (aka “We the People”), or, “Every Man for Themselves”. Personally, I think we have the potential to be each other’s ‘superpower’ ability, but we are a young race, and have much maturing to do still.
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It’s neither… and also both.
We do need to be concerned with ourselves. If we focus too much on others, we lose sight of ourselves and can fall apart. But if we don’t concern ourselves with others as well… well we get America.
It’s about balance.
I would argue that its ok to take care of ourselves first and foremost, but ALSO to not stop caring after we’re done with ourselves. IMO, its both.
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… so… like… some sort of balance?
No, more like both 24/7.
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And it’s going to take a little while for these expected effects to even be felt nationwide. Right now, everything is mostly just talk, unless you happen to interact with some of the understaffed agencies.