Only 1/3 of the voting age population voted against MAGA after having a 10 year preview. The US is unsalvageable. Live your life while you can. There are too few patriots to fight back against this hoard of loyalists.
Unfortunately no you are not and you and all the rest are completely wrong.
Fix what exactly? Hard to answer, when the question isn’t clearly defined.
Not denying, that there’s a lot to be fixed. But regarding the means, that depends on what exactly you’re talking about.
It’ll take a few more
assassinationsLuigi-like incidents before any oligarchs start taking us serfs seriously.No.
No.
Elections were meant to be bloodless revolution. What about “You are forced to vote for someone who doesn’t represent you” screams bloodless revolution?
Usually this is where I would make a long winded comment about replacing First-past-the-post voting with a voting system that allows more then two parties to exist without a spoiler effect… but that time has long since passed us by.
Democrats refused to implement the change Obama promised, Republicans eventually won. GG no RE. Good luck out there yall.
“I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land can never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think, vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed, it might be done.”
- John Brown
I would like to see the “United States of America” burn to the ground and cease to exist entirely as a political and military entity.
Anything else on your wish list? Just curious.
I guess that you have to live outside the US to see what a scary man-baby it is. If a country has all the power in the world, and then decides that rules don’t apply to them, it quite a short step to wishing that they would fail and leave the rest of us alone. The delusion is that they have adopted the world cop role. The reality is that they are the world bully.
If the petrodollar fails that’s exactly what’s going to happen. The rest of the world won’t miss the opportunity to hamstring the US during their moment of weakness and ensure they turn into an insular, regional isolationist power. It’ll be well deserved too…
when*
No, plenty of us believe it. I didn’t recently purchase 10+ different guns and a ton of ammo because I think things will work out.
Unfortunately, more people think diplomacy and peaceful protest and waiting until the next time to vote will be enough.
It’s fucking dumb.
If my plan to leave the US permanently fails, I’m prepared for literal civil war.
Nobody’s going to be wearing uniforms. Who ya gonna shoot?
10+ guns sounds pretty dumb ngl, 2-3 is fine. rest is better spent helping build some kind of network of support with your local neighborhood.
Need extras for those around me that didn’t buy.
Guns are pretty stupid. You’re building a society of individualism, distrust and violence. Not one where a decent human being would live happily.
Found the bot/troll.
What makes you say that? Just because someone has a different opinion then you doesn’t make them a bot or a troll.
Decent human beings are a myth until proven otherwise. Now, in the era of unprecedented abundance, we mistreat people by withholding the basic necessities of life from them.
There is no place to live happily until we make it happen. If this other person wants to be wrong, let em.
What does “fix it” mean?
Capitalism–a semblance of the status quo–continuing to function?
The degree of the chaos between current governmental state and a better government is the concern i always wonder about. One thing we know is that the rich dont want it to fundamentally change. Even the dems. When biden was comforting a group of megawealthy donors and assuring them that ‘nothing would fundamentally change’ with him in charge, he was speaking for the party. And they havent budged from there. They are not friends of the common people but they are somewhat closer to us than the gop.
Define painful. There’s nothing stopping us from starting co-ops for nearly everything. But the will has to be there. Too many people are happy with what they have. Violence only breeds more violence. Full stop. All it takes is a viral moment.
I’m not American so I won’t claim to know what needs to happen. But from an outside observer, it seems that the majority are complacent and willing to sacrifice those “below” them to keep treading water.
Which isn’t uniquely American - complacency and a lack of compassion is an issue in a lot of places. But America is definitely showing us how dangerous it can be when enough people have the “ehh, I’m still surviving so yeah this isn’t great but oh well, go with the flow” kind of mindset/action.
The US needs to be dismantled. There’s no such thing as fixing a settler colonial state. Everything about it is very young and paper thin, from its philosophies to its narratives to its borders to its laws to its “culture” to its religions. None of it will withstand the slow and inexorable resistance of the world’s people.
As long as Americans think one day peaceful protests will do anything, I don’t see a anything happening. That concept is so mind boggling dumb imho. If you’re not willing to commit for weeks/months, and say from the start, ‘ah tomorrow we will be gone’. Then why wouldn’t the government just ignore it? No you put out your demands and sit down in Washington DC or NY or something until the demands are met. Giving it a deadline just doesn’t make any sense at all.
Now if this would actually happen, I don’t see it stay peaceful for very long, but probably a tiananmen square situation developing. With how little the gov cares about people’s well being.
But to be honest, the US probably needs vigilantes/rebels a la the Black Panthers for anything to happen.
The democracy route? Yeah it’s way past that point already. As long as people like Bernie Sanders (or anyone more left than Bush) keep getting marked as some kind of ‘communist’, nothing will happen there. That propaganda has been gobbled up too much already.
Almost got it and screwed up in your last sentence.
Bernie the sheepdog works for the same peopleI’m not a fan of this take. Peaceful protests are just one piece of an effective resistance. People complaining that big protests “don’t do anything” are sometimes right, but more often they assume that nothing else is being done before/afterwards and don’t understand the actual useful effects of protests.
Protests aren’t always about (actually pretty much never about) an immediate demand being met. They’re about getting people together and building a network of likeminded people. They’re about demonstrating to others around you that they might not be alone in thinking things aren’t OK. They’re a step in the process.
Protests aren’t always about (actually pretty much never about) an immediate demand being met. They’re about getting people together and building a network of likeminded people. They’re about demonstrating to others around you that they might not be alone in thinking things aren’t OK. They’re a step in the process.
I’ve heard this repeated sooooo many times every time this comes up. So at what point are you actually going to do anything with that “network”. Or is it just to find friends to moan with?
LOL
Didn’t work for the Occupy movements, did it?
Did a hell lot more than King’s days protest, at least it was a debate for way longer. But they suffered from too little numbers in the end. But of course you can ignore all other long-term peaceful protests, like the salt march, to dismiss the underlying point
If reforms from democrats was enough, we wouldn’t have Trump right now.
The founding myth of your nation is violence. I think it’s like asking if there will be snow in February (I’m Canadian btw)
if there will be snow in February
Climate change might do this phrase in one day.
What’s the founding myth of Canada if not Eurocentric settler colonialism intended to displace and exterminate the indigenous peoples of the land they were invading?
Oh hi Freagle! And yeah you’re exactly right!
