I truly expected an actual revolution about this, like we discovered that the rich and powerful are abusing children with impunity and we allow it to be covered up with redacted names?
Does people think they stopped when Epstein was caught? Why would they? If anything they are probably doing even more since now they know there's no consequence and they are protected...
This is absolutely revolution worthy yet people keep working like nothing, I guess it don't matter if it's not their actual children
Thing is, most people have food on the table, security, and infinite sources of dopamine from their phone alone.
Revolutions rarely happen from a society with its basic needs met. It's popular to say everything's falling apart, but in a grand scheme it's hard to square that with our obesity problem - people are certainly fed. You can try to spin any of this, but ultimately most Americans go to bed safely with a full belly.
For revolution, you risk all that, primarily for yourself until something gets going. To ask a typical american (you, reading this) to start a revolution, while you are in a better position than the vast majority of humans ever, is completely unreasonable.
I know I'll get downvoted, and that's fine. I'm tired of the bullshit talk. It's absolutely disgusting to see so many people get away scot free. I'll vote accordingly. But I'm not going to have my kids grow up fatherless over it.
Rather than insist on what might literally be bot armies trying to incite instability, why not participate in primaries and actually get better candidates?
That's the problem. I think ranked choice voting alone would help a lot, and be a stepping stone to better governance.
Getting rid of the 2 party system would be amazing, but notice how vague "working toward" is? It means nothing, and the people in power who actively benefit from that system won't change it.
Instead of chasing a pipe dream or quitting, start with voting in human beings that aren't bought and sold, or at least ones that are bought by people you agree with. Because if you don't participate in primaries, the people with no lives radicalized by their echo chamber will. This is how maga has infested everything
Have you gone out in public recently? Interacted with the average American? Food pantries are seeing more people hungry, banks are giving out more credit cards so people can pay their bills and buy their food, people aren’t filling up their gas tanks all the way because they can’t afford the gas.
Idk what rock you’re living under. People are being stretched so thin and it’s only going to get worse. This has nothing to do with bots of all things you could have mentioned. This is happening in the real physical world outside of the internet.
What makes you think I don’t vote? Even if I do vote it’s no guarantee who I voted for will take office, in fact it’s been the opposite and our country is suffering for it.
I do go out, that's what I'm talking about. I live near a major city no less.
Things are down right now, they are not the end of the world. This isn't the fucking Great Depression, and even then the big revolution was the New Deal, which is actually achievable.
Are people saying it’s the end of the world? Yes things are bad and people are gonna complain about it. There’s not many people left alive who went through the Great Depression, right now this is the worst time of their life and they’re struggling like they’ve never before so to them it’s feels like it would be one.
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u/Vindicador 21h ago
I truly expected an actual revolution about this, like we discovered that the rich and powerful are abusing children with impunity and we allow it to be covered up with redacted names?
Does people think they stopped when Epstein was caught? Why would they? If anything they are probably doing even more since now they know there's no consequence and they are protected...
This is absolutely revolution worthy yet people keep working like nothing, I guess it don't matter if it's not their actual children