• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      People really want to believe this is true, but what a joke. Americans will roll over and let it happen like they have for fifty-some odd years now or more.

      It will take people not being able to feed their families before anyone stands up, and by that point, the entire sham of American democracy will be a distant memory crushed under the boot of totalitarian surveillance authoritarianism.

      Americans are fucking cowed and always have been. Nobody gave a single fucking shit when I was young and able bodied, and now I am old and bitter and cancer ridden and I’ve seen more young men support the bullshit that’s happening than stand against it.

      But you know, tell yourself whatever helps you sleep at night, I guess.

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        History proves you wrong. Every major challenge to our democracy, from our inception, has been overcome with blood, sweat and plenty of tears.

        Americans will roll over and let it happen like they have for fifty-some odd years now or more.

        You’re old now but apparently can’t remember all the victories over the last 50 years? Title IX? ADA? Same-sex marriage? First black president? First woman speaker? That’s just off the top of my head - your willful ignorance is actually shocking to me, shameful.

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          You forgetting the countless deaths of innocent people abroad at the hands of America over the last 50 years is what is actually shameful. The imperial boomerang is just finally coming home.

          Half a million dead Iraqis is an achievement? The Chilean coup in 1973 was an achievement? What a crock of shit.

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            Nice red herring you’ve got there - I’ll leave you in your dark, depressing hole to enjoy eating it in peace. 👋

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              I’m glad all is fine and good for you as long Americans get theirs. Who cares the suffering we dole out to the rest of the world to keep that high quality of life at the expense of everyone else? That attitude is literally exactly the kind of apathy I’m referring to. Keep smugly acting like it will get better when no real effective organizing is going on.

              Don’t come crying to me when your “the arc of history bends towards justice” bullshit fails to be reality. Kissinger died comfortably in his bed, bending towards justice my ass…

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              I’m glad all is fine and good for you as long Americans get theirs. Who cares the suffering we dole out to the rest of the world to keep that high quality of life at the expense of everyone else? That attitude is literally exactly the kind of apathy I’m referring to. Keep smugly acting like it will get better when no real effective organizing is going on.

              Don’t come crying to me when your “the arc of history bends towards justice” bullshit fails to be reality. Kissinger died comfortably in his bed, bending towards justice my ass…

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      It’s extremely important that we do not allow the offspring of these child rapists to inherit their empire.

      Redistribute their wealth and make them work like the rest of us.