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Americans are apathetic, misinformed, dissuaded or exhausted by everything going on the last 8 years or so.
Would be totally surprised if major public protests happened. People mainly just look out for themselves. That’s the American way. Community has been removed and replaced with TV.
I mean, the literal design of an American suburb is to make sure everyone stays as individualistic as possible and does not connect or form community. It is by design
American exceptionalism is finding an excuse for why nothing can ever work in your country yet does anywhere else.
Meanwhile the altright descended on and almost toppled your entire system of government a few years back.
I remember 20 years cities all across America protesting against the WoT and 1%ers.
But nope, just can’t happen in America, they’re special.
I mean America has been sabotaged and designed by bad actors basically since its inception. That's just a fact. This is to say we were bred and taught to be spineless, helpless saps to be abused by the corps.
It's really an incredibly successful campaign. Quite impressive if it didn't make me want to turn those responsible into mulch.
But we’ve seen left and right organise massive nationwide protests, we’ve seen riots across the country every year after another big cop killing, etc.
To turn around and tell us it’s too hard for you to do is a cop-out.
I'm not saying it's too hard, it's that the people are not motivated because they have no spine. Those "riots" you are talking about were very isolated. 2020 got close but it wasn't sustained. People got bored.
I've said this before, and been called crazy, but I can see in almost every dimension of modern existence (~ last 100 years) how individuals are being isolated further and further from each other, by design. The last thing a capitalist or power hungry politician wants is unity and solidarity among common people.
The documentary Century of Self NY Adam Curtis is basically about this.
If I know anything about people in power is that they never learn. Colin kapernick kneeled to protest police brutality. Not even a year later George Floyd dies from police brutality and people rioted and burned down police station etc...
If you don't let people protest THEY WILL RIOT.
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable" -JFK
Not to mention Kap got the suggestion to take a knee from a goddamn Green Beret. The majority of Americans are taught that nationalism=patriotism and that’s a dangerous way to think, especially when we have the biggest guns.
NOW we're talking, finally, people are starting to figure out how this whole thing works.
Curious to hear thoughts on what a riot would look like? Not that I’m planning one myself…but are there goals to this convention of rage and distrust with our current administration? Does it have to be planned? Is rioting more an anarchy-type situation, where we just go balls to the walls ape shit on anything worth setting fire to? harming actual people is out of the question to me. I pity the ppl who voted for trump, but I don’t think physically harming people would allow me to feel good about anything, let alone actually ignite change to our benefit.
Idk man.... Anything with "police" or "Tesla" or "trump" or "maga" or anything other such nonsense would seem to me to be a fair and valid target of aggression in such a situation. Other than "break shit until they listen" I'm unsure what the goal of a riot would be.
Not that I'm opposed.