politics

I hate "news" like this... It's a waste of time.

One person on Twitter saying something turns into "Twitter says..."

Politician say x in normal pointless conversation and it turns into "democrats/politicians say..."

And people feverishly eat it up.

Our society is fucked.

We're slaves living paycheck to paycheck and nobody cares about each other.

This system will collapse before we hold rich white men accountable

I'll express from someone living in a red state. The fuck am I going to do? I'm over half a thousand miles away from the state he's fucking with, and he's probably not there most of the time and again thousands of miles over, with all the power of money to get him wherever the fuck he wants to go vs my little car.

So build up support. A third of this country voted for this, and a third of this country sat out. So you've got a third that's actively angry about this, but scattered literal thousands of miles across the country. Kinda hard to gather to this. Sure we gather to protest but this administration isn't going to give two shits about it, this entire situation is proving that. But gathering and protesting IS the power we have so we're doing that. Unfortunately the cameras aren't on that because the people supporting this are the ones with the media.

As someone put it, most of us are slaves to our paychecks, living on the barest margin of survivability, and that's been the way for decades. Y'all get to see the chest thumping "America is the greatest place!" but lets be honest, most of us are so disaffected that what we're watching is the horror of a monster taking over, but the country we were raised in and told to love there will be very little sadness when its gone, just sadness for how evil it will become. But that living paycheck to paycheck means in order for me to go somewhere where I can maybe put up resistance because right now I'm surrounded by people who support this... and these are the people who have been arming up in ready for a war for years... would be to uproot completely, and even the bluest of blue states would happily let me die in a gutter if I don't have job. So either I stay and support people who will be hurt when it gets worse, or I become at best a martyr, or at worst, another statistic that the news may not even bother reporting.

The answers will vary, but why are we allowing this to happen? I'll say my answer, some of us have been fighting this for years, over a decade since the Tea Party got mad that a black man was president, have been struggling to change the trajectory of this ship away from the iceberg. But I've seen the people of my country as a whole grab the wheel, lock the door and say it's their god given right to drive into the iceberg. So at this point in the analogy I'm just gathering life preservers and making sure people have them on even as many of them will tell me the ship is unsinkable.

We're pretty conditioned to obey. Like, you can be a rebel and insult people or be racist or sexist or "anti-social," but you go to work and pay your bills. We're also, mostly, in debt up to our eyeballs the stress of which gives a powerful myopia. Average Americans are way poorer than tv would have you think.

Thirty percent of the population doesn't even bother to vote as they've basically given up, maybe for one of the reasons above or maybe because the government has little to do with day to day life, or maybe something else.

There's also like a third of the population that is super happy about these developments. It the most amazing thing to have a king again and get back to how things are supposed to be.

There's also a sort of general American optimism that is super persistent: if you do good, then it'll be ok. We're hyper individualized. Do the best you can with what you have. Don't put anyone out, or depend on anyone else.

Unfortunately, things will have to get a lot worse to motivate us.

I was surprised by the number of people who showed up to my local Tesla dealership to protest. It hurts his pocket book indirectly, but it's something.

Most people in US just stare at their phone all day so they're probably fucked

This take is so boring. There are protests and even direct action all across the States. We're just getting started. You need to change your media sources if you're not hearing about what's going on.

Easier if the country was the size of something like France. But when you have to clear a thousand miles just to arrive at the halfway point in the US. It's hard to show massive protests.

IDK if it killed democracy because it can fail. Almost all systems of government have failed.

The only one that hadn't (yet) is democracy.

Not sure why anyone would be surprised that democracy has a best before date...

French: You can arrest even king. Well, we can. You, of course, cannot.

Not until you, the people, make it happen

It only takes a handful of people to change that

Donald Trump, age 76 years, son of Fred and Wilma, said something stupid today.