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That’s the thing - this is only barely not normal. It’s definitely more in your face, and a lot tackier, but the US has never been great, at least not for anyone straight, white, male, and relatively well off. Our history started with theft and genocide and continued on in that vein. While there have obviously been improvements over the last few hundred years, large portions of the population have had to be dragged kicking and screaming toward every bit of it. Even most of our best presidents have been responsible for atrocities, and then the pendulum always seems to swing back toward the worst of us for a while.
Now we have a population that has been systematically under- or uneducated and fed a steady diet of propaganda about how incredible this country is without any critical thought, and they blame anyone not just like them for any of their problems instead of ever paying attention to the wealthy ransacking the place. The vast majority of them cannot be reasoned with, because Republicans have spent decades making sure they don’t have the skills or desire to look at new evidence and change their minds.
It’s hard to come to terms with the fact that at least a third of my fellow Americans don’t think I should exist as a queer person, and another third don’t give enough of a fuck to bother taking any kind of stand. It’s hard to watch every institution we’ve been assured would provide some kind of checks and balances fail as soon as someone decides they’re no longer going to abide by any norms. Any meaningful action is likely to end up in a lot of death and if I thought this was a bizarre one off instead of something way too many people are rooting for, it would be a lot easier to think that sacrifice was worth it. It feels pretty hopeless at this point. My only real motivation is trying to use the little bit of privilege I have to try to help my community, but I know it’s not enough.
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There are massive protests all over the US. AOC/Bernie drawing huge crowds. Republicans chanting “tax the rich”.
Corporate media won’t give it the coverage it deserves, and mainstream social media will bury it with their algorithms. Because they’re all owned by the billionaires bowing to Trump.
They want you to feel like nobody’s doing anything. Remember that.
I regularly read about those huge crowds but anytime I check, it’s never more than 30.000 people. My country has less than a third of the US population and there were over a million protestors on the streets in one weekend because the center right voted with the far right on the same bill. There were over 80.000 people just in my city alone and our situation is not even remotely comparable to the things that have been happening in the USA.
I’m not trying to shit on anyone going out there to do something, but considering the circumstances it should be so much more. This is not an issue of the media not reporting enough. There were no huge reports ahead of the demonstrations in my country either. It just happened through social media and networking. After all that happened Americans are still not fed up enough. And if it doesn’t happen now, I’m not sure it ever will.
Protests in the US are hamstrung by the total lack of a social safety net (most people can’t afford even a single day off work), and the massive land area of the country. You might only hear about protests getting to 30k, but that’s in one spot. One state in the US is larger by area, and has less options for transportation than a country in Europe, while often being much more sparsely populated.
People here say “Land doesn’t vote,” to talk about our electoral map, but geography actually does have a major impact on our politics. It’s the same reason our right wing likes closing polling locations. They use time and distance to gatekeep political participation
I don’t really agree with this take. The protests in cities are not limited by geography. The US has 9 cities with more than a million inhabitants, most of them voting blue. The lack of a social safety net is not a real argument either, as protests usually happen on the weekends and from the afternoon to the evening. If we compare the numbers just for cities alone: My hometown has a population of 1.8 million. About 5% of that population attended the local protest. If we compare this to a city like New York, which has 8.2 million inhabitants (and public transportation), 410,000 people should be out on the streets. Again, our situation is not even remotely as bad, so the numbers should be even higher in the USA.
I obviously can’t speak for the exact reasons why the numbers are so low, I just know that it doesn’t just boil down to reporting, geography or ability. You could pull these numbers easily, if the will to do it were there.
AOC/Bernie drawing huge crowds
you’re aware that the democrats have enabled nearly all of trump’s agenda and neither bernie nor aoc are advocating for the democratic leadership to change course, right?
They never seem to be there. All Americans ever seem to be is talk.
All these dumb excuses for constant inaction to the point where other fucking countries have to clean up their mess. I’m frustrated to the point that I want to see a policy implemented saying that if you didn’t vote in the last election (assuming you were eligible to do so), you don’t get entrance since you’d be more of a burden as someone who can’t perform their civic duty
It must be really easy to sit in judgement.
Oh don’t you worry, the Americans will be out in full force (about 3 dozen people) about this, and they will be carrying their most sarcastic and passive-aggressive signs, and will be standing around in the most unapproving ways.
Looking at this image, every child could easily point out who’s evil here. Do they not see it?
They see it and they like it.
They are evil. You don’t get horns and cool red eyes when you turn evil. Mostly you stay the same!
Fun thing I’ve noticed, evil people even seem to live longer. They don’t stress about it when others suffer, they laugh. And laughter… Is the best medicine.
Dunno man. There’s a reason why the best comedians are left leaning.
The best comedians have an excess of empathy. The best conservatives barely have any.
Also musicians and artists in general.
Yeah, because punching down isn’t funny
punching down is synonymous with bigotry
I’ve noticed that cancer seems to be really good at killing decent people, so my solution is that every time someone nice dies of cancer we should go out and round up five or six total shitheads, throw them into a volcano, and say they died of cancer.
The fascists don’t care. They will happily rub it into your face how much they can do something you cannot. It’s a feature of fascism, not a bug.
A Hungarian fascist told me how all gay people will be pedophiles in his eyes no matter what, while he himself groomed his wife from the age of 16.
I saved you a click. I didn’t believe this post was real and I went to find it on X. It’s real and I’m sad for all Americans.
Wait what?
I am now sure were living in some mickeymouse simulation.
My cousin has convinced me that we all died from Covid and this is hell
Covid does infect braincells and mutates them into weird neuron fusion blob cells. So we’re kinda increasingly braindead based on reoccurring Covid infections
I would avoid going to the Whitehouse Twitter page. The entire thing is just a bunch of sound bites from Fox news.
Seriously what kind of soulless creep goes for this shit, not to mention thinks it’s fun to post? Oh right, MAGA.
I prefer the original artist’s work
I utterly despise this AI Ghibli trend. If you’re a fan of Ghibli or Hayao Miyazaki you wouldn’t do this. I especially hate that fascists are now doing it. Miyazaki hates fascists. I hate what the internet and social media have done to our society. Clearly the majority of us are not ready to use them responsibly.
Hayao Miyazaki: I don’t think there’s anything that could make me despise the US more than I already do.
The US:
The US is very quickly turning into the new Nazi-Germany. Very sad and alarming to see.
we’re about to find out what would have happened if the Nazis had got the bomb first
Spoiler alert…. It won’t end well.
I don’t understand what they thought this image would do? Except make people more upset.
When people say the cruelty is the point they really mean it. MAGA fascists consider this satisfying. If it makes people upset that’s even better. Imagine these people as highschool bullies. That’s really all there is to it.
MAGA and fascism are not simple bullying. They are not “politics”. They are a mental illness epidemic.
These people have had their logic corrupted, like a neurological virus. They can’t explain Trumps policies or what he’s done to benefit them. They don’t even care. They just have “faith” in the closest thing to Satan they’ll ever see, for absolutely no reason they can logically explain. They are insane, and a danger to society.
They want to show how tuff white cops are when they attack somebody’s mom.
This was posted without context even then the picture is pretty fucked up since there are a ton of Latina women that work in cafeterias. The woman in the image was a food worker that sold fentanyl, this picture without the context is fucked up with the context it is kinda of a dog whistle😔.
Context doesn’t make it any better. This is a propaganda image that is glorifying a white man having power over a crying Latina woman who is in distress.
This is genuine 100% nazi shit. Why are people not terrified by this?
Always had been.
When dumb Nazis have the largest nuclear arsenal freely at hand…
And imperialistic oligarchs the 2nd largest…
And genocide-loving ethnic supremacists have nuclear weapons, but don’t want to admit it
“You see, I told the computer to make then weak, fat and darker skinned than me, so everyone knows that they’re the bad one”
the white house is Ghiblifying fasciporn
One for [email protected]
From when he first came into office he was talking about “Lying CNN” on the official Whitehouse website. I think it was cooked long before this.
Caption: The Eternal Immigrant.
The OP is very astute. Hopefully also correct.
