Genuinely honest reaction from an American- we have reached peak pointlessness.
The American public (in general, on average) is so stupid and ill-informed, staring only at their preferred echo chamber that the majority would rather mobilize against different opinions than have a conversation.
We could self immolate in the streets and it would make absolutely no difference. Opposition would celebrate it. Any method to resist or make change has been well and truly vaporized. Publicly stating our opinion or even stating objective fact is now pointless, as it will be instantly gaslit.
Not a single protest or demostration I’ve attended has made ANY difference at all.
Even right this second, I can hear the sound of Fox News in the office beside mine.
Even in my small suburban town lifted trucks STILL fly a Trump flag and scream and shout out the window at bumper stickers they don’t like.
I can’t say that’s the perspective other Americans have, but I can tell you that’s my perspective. The proverbial “ship is sinking”, the hull has cracked wide open, and all I can do is plan what cardinal direction to “swim” in assuming I survive the capsize, which I almost certainly will not.
The world outside Murikkka is, like, expecting there will be some sort of a reckoning….but the Murikkkan populace is already too abject. Murikkkans would rather live in total shit if it “owns the libs” or hurts someone else worse then it hurts them. One thing is for sure though, people will die - be it through lack of healthcare or some other way. The billionaire class has decided it no longer needs cheap labour. That should be cause for concern.
We have plenty of armed citizens, but that’s the hilariously fucked part of it. Gun owners are BY VAST, FARRRRR MAJORITY- Republicans. If it’s not on Fox News they don’t know it, haven’t heard of it, don’t give a fuck about learning it. Even if they suddenly every single one of them realized how fucked they are, and they ALL lined up outside of their local city halls, state capitols, and so on TOMORROW they’d only be answered with the largest “riot control” force ever assembled on the planet with more tear gas than they can imagine. Not one word of their message would be heard, only violence would be televised. We learned that in LA.
People are already going hungry and dying, just not the people you might immediately expect. Right now it’s the low income elderly, (who can’t get medical help to save their lives, the sick, the homeless, and immigrants, who (if they haven’t already been put in camps) are too afraid to even say more than “Hi” in passing when I pass them in apartment halls.
This place is fucked, but most haven’t realized it yet.
Genuinely honest reaction from an American- we have reached peak pointlessness.
The American public (in general, on average) is so stupid and ill-informed, staring only at their preferred echo chamber that the majority would rather mobilize against different opinions than have a conversation.
We could self immolate in the streets and it would make absolutely no difference. Opposition would celebrate it. Any method to resist or make change has been well and truly vaporized. Publicly stating our opinion or even stating objective fact is now pointless, as it will be instantly gaslit.
Not a single protest or demostration I’ve attended has made ANY difference at all.
Even right this second, I can hear the sound of Fox News in the office beside mine.
Even in my small suburban town lifted trucks STILL fly a Trump flag and scream and shout out the window at bumper stickers they don’t like.
I can’t say that’s the perspective other Americans have, but I can tell you that’s my perspective. The proverbial “ship is sinking”, the hull has cracked wide open, and all I can do is plan what cardinal direction to “swim” in assuming I survive the capsize, which I almost certainly will not.
The world outside Murikkka is, like, expecting there will be some sort of a reckoning….but the Murikkkan populace is already too abject. Murikkkans would rather live in total shit if it “owns the libs” or hurts someone else worse then it hurts them. One thing is for sure though, people will die - be it through lack of healthcare or some other way. The billionaire class has decided it no longer needs cheap labour. That should be cause for concern.
We have plenty of armed citizens, but that’s the hilariously fucked part of it. Gun owners are BY VAST, FARRRRR MAJORITY- Republicans. If it’s not on Fox News they don’t know it, haven’t heard of it, don’t give a fuck about learning it. Even if they suddenly every single one of them realized how fucked they are, and they ALL lined up outside of their local city halls, state capitols, and so on TOMORROW they’d only be answered with the largest “riot control” force ever assembled on the planet with more tear gas than they can imagine. Not one word of their message would be heard, only violence would be televised. We learned that in LA.
People are already going hungry and dying, just not the people you might immediately expect. Right now it’s the low income elderly, (who can’t get medical help to save their lives, the sick, the homeless, and immigrants, who (if they haven’t already been put in camps) are too afraid to even say more than “Hi” in passing when I pass them in apartment halls.
This place is fucked, but most haven’t realized it yet.
And when Trunp sends MAGA minions to try to annex Canada, they’ll discover that we are also armed to the teeth. We just don’t make it our identity.