Almost half of Americans are still blissfully unaware of the utter and total shit they're in...
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As is most of the Western world... 😒
I think throughout most of human history most people have tried really hard to believe "this is fine" regardless of what's going on and periods of time that we see as having massive unrest involved like 50% of the population openly saying "this sucks" and maybe 20-25% saying "this sucks and I'm willing to do something about it"
The worst part of that seems to be that usually that 20-25% is made up of the most extreme dullards who don't understand that people tried to say "this is fine" because those people knew the importance of stability. In the US, the people most likely to "do something about it" are tantamount to Trump's fucking brownshirts. The people ready to throw it all into the dustbin of history aren't necessarily the people with the best education or intents. They're just angry that the bread and circuses don't satisfy anymore.
people tried to say "this is fine" because those people knew the importance of stability.
I saw that dynamic too but I think part of how we got to this point is that we broke the trust of the public by insisting "this is fine" when they could tell it wasn't, and the insecure condescension we got from a lot of our leaders didn't help matters
I will say that there are some people way too eager to burn everything down right now and the crazier things get the more important it is that we all try to speak carefully, but OTOH we also absolutely need to throw some things into history's dustbin and the longer we wait to do so the worse this is gonna get
I agree these aren't the best of times, but I'm also not certain there will not be better days. The more people that decide this is it and give up, the more likely the best is behind us.
Thoughts and prayers 🙏
I very honestly think the best days are yet to come. The idea of America when that happens might be radically different than today though.
I actually agree, I don't think I'll live to see those better days because I think we're still staring down another century or so of dumb shit, but I think our whole species is eventually going to hit a rock bottom, learn some very painful lessons, and come out better for it. Also, I think by that point the idea of nation states might be kind of antiquated.
Haven't we always been backwards looking though? "Y'know, in my day..."
I'm sure even at the start there were people going "Man, we were so much better under King George..."
It's CNN we're dealing with here, so of course the headline is misleading. Most of the article and most of their polling questions are actually about views of the two major parties which are in general basically worse than they ever have been.
Jordy, you’re a frozen in time “progressive” white male genx who has had most of his life handed to him, despite your tough-love-bootstraps attitude. You’re not gonna see 10 years from now 💔 which has made you cold and bitter to the suffering of others. You just think today is another day and that everyone is just overreacting about all this fascism stuff.
LOL - I haven't had jack handed to me. I worked for all of it. And no, I don't think people are over-reacting to fascism, they are reacting in ways that are completely ineffective.
Your entire life is laid out on google. Everything is public information. I very much disagree that you’ve had it rough.
You don't know him, and rooting around a stranger's personal life is a really weird fucking thing to do.
Nah. Fascist enablers need to be outed for what they are.
You don’t know that I don’t know him, and you don’t know why I have a problem with him. I assure you, this is not random.I could elaborate, but I don’t have any interest in your acceptance.
I never said I had it rough, I said I worked for everything I have, there's a difference. 😜 I've come a long way since going broke in 2002. LOL.
Right, you had it easy. Thus, “handed to you.” I didn’t say you never had to be employed. Glad we got that sorted.
"Handed to me" implies some kind of nepotism, that I somehow didn't earn what I have done which is, frankly, a little bit offensive.
I don't know if you remember this, but back when Reddit pretended to care about such things, they made a filing with the FCC on Net Neutrality, why it was so important and so on.
They wanted submissions to include, I drew on my experience and wrote up my opinion, it was one of thirteen or so they included with their FCC filing.
https://www.rareddit.com/r/blog/comments/2aohmu/reddit_is_filing_an_fcc_comment_to_fight_for_an/
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GT1QZq1QrXfBt4NZQIjqzlO7NA-xwcleODENIVM7ZzQ
Shame they pussied out AFTER the fact, but it was nice while it lasted.
So the US had jumped the shark?