• Zorque@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I’m kinda done with giving nuance to Americans.

    Exactly the kind of sentiment the people in power making these batshit decisions want. They want people making vapid generalizations, they want people reacting instead of thinking. Acting out against each other instead of working together.

    You’re sick of this shit? We have to fucking live it. You want to give up? Fine. But don’t blame others when things don’t get better, while you sit on your high horse and the world burns around you. Cause it sure as fuck isn’t limited to the US, it’s just easier to ignore everything but because the US when they’re falling so far from where most people there thought they were.

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      Oh get over yourself. You people swear you’re fighting the good fight by thinking. That’s the whole problem. All anyone does is think, no action. Then it’s shocked pikachu face.

      To people all over the world, ignore this type of bleating. This is the same rhetoric the dems use and thanks to them we’re now the dumb reich.

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      I’ll rephrase it for you: You get what you don’t resist. Also known as: History is made by the people who show up. The crux of the issue is that when it mattered, most people in America didn’t show up (and no, I’m not talking about election day). Americans collectively share responsibility for not showing up, and nothing is going to change until they decide to show up. It’s that simple.

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        Arguably, the systems that have lobotomized the US were set up by people who are so old they’re becoming president or dead. Lots of money is spent to make it hard to even see what is going on, let alone how to do something about it.

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      I ain’t the one giving up, I’ve hardly bought a single U.S. made product at the store since this nonsense started, and this entire ordeal has invigorated me to get more involved with my community and organizations that stand for the causes I believe in. I take a look at how voters and party members down south act for the most part on BOTH sides of the aisle, and the big conclusion I constantly come to is how Americans just seem to have a knack to give up on anything that supposedly matters to them.

      I can go on all day about things that have happened over the years that have led me to that conclusion, but quite frankly it’s a lost cause if it takes someone outside borders to explain politics within them, assuming that people will even care or respect what people have to say outside borders to begin with.