Community isn't like what it was back then. I'm guessing hell no.
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/54239937
During the Great Depression, when banks foreclosed on farms, neighbors often showed up at the auctions together.
They’d bid only a few cents, and return the land to the family that lost it. Sometimes a noose hung nearby as a warning to outsiders not to profit from someone else’s ruin.
It was rough, but it worked, communities protected each other when the system wouldn’t.
If a collapse like that happened today, do you think people would still stand together or has that kind of solidarity disappeared? Could it happen again?
No, primarily because nobody knows their neigbors anymore
nope, they would be coralled and shot by drones and police officers, bombed to shit, and all called terrorists. made an example of, to keep everyone else in check. people seeking refuge from that system would either choose to suffer in it, die attempting to change it, or join those that enforce it.
its been that way for a while now. everyone is too undereducated and isolated via technologu to create a proper resistance force, at least with numbers that matter. even fewer are actively willing to do violence for moral reasons, due to decades of brainwashing by the systems of control to view "peaceful protest" as the only vehicle for change, anything more is considered immoral.
its very useful to have us think that way, as violence is the only historical cure for fascism.
They’d grab anyone’s house just like they grabbed the Capitol on Jan 6.
No
You might be right.
Recession will happen in 2029 to celebrate the anniversary of the Great Depression.
I bet we'll get that gift a bit early.
Hell, no. If the word went around that there was an auction, there will always be those who decide to buy their neighbors' land.
No, because farmers knew each other back then and it was a society transitioning from agrarian to fully industrial. Different values.
They also had a connection to reality that we don't have, they used their hands directly on physical objects, we all think we're Johnny Mnemonic (ever see those stupid SAS vaiya or whatever ads?).
I don't know that those small family farms are really a thing anymore. I think those pretty much went away in the 80s.
Yes, but not right away.
We can see that during Trump 2.0 is taking longer but we are growing our opposition.
Remember the Muslim ban and the immediate reaction at airports in 2017? We're seeing similar things now (farther into the term) with reactions to ICE.