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.

  • Cosmic ClericEnglish
    1•7 hours ago

    Sadly, 99% of people - wherever they live - won’t really do or say anything until it affects them personally.

    Especially if it might hurt their income.

    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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    • @ZorqueEnglish
      2•5 hours ago

      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.