• HaSch@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 years ago

    I have great respect for any American kid who is growing up right now and still retains a minimum of sanity. Surrounded by school shootings, coronaviruses on steroids, racism, a deregulated economy, a straight-up villainous government, institutional fraud, nepotism, and corruption, religious lunacy, poverty, poisoning, and malnutrition, caught in a circle of work and debt at a young age, and daily walking among the artifacts of the world’s grandest schemes advancing war, pollution, narco-terrorism, sex trafficking, and tropical deforestation yet unable to do anything against it.

    How are they able to put up with all this?

    • morrowind@lemmy.ml
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      2 years ago

      Most americans kids don’t know and what they do know they don’t hold that negative an opinion of as you do. America is still better than most of the world for a child.

    • DankZedong ☭☭☭@lemmygrad.ml
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      2 years ago

      Like, people go to school not knowing if they die. People go to church not knowing if they die. People go to sleep and get shot by police. Black people go to do shopping and get shot. People go to concerts and get shot. How can any country function like this?

      • Godless_Nematode@lemmy.ml
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        2 years ago

        Other countries: Go to a wedding get blown up by a US drone. Go to the funeral for those killed at the wedding get blown up by a US drone. Reporters at the scene of the drone strike get shot from US helicoters. US likes to spread their crazy.

      • beansniffer@lemmy.ml
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        2 years ago

        I know I’m going to get downvoted for this, but millions of americans go to school, church, concerts, etc, and have no worries whatsoever about getting shot because the statistical probability of that happening is so low that the average American is extremely more likely to die from preventable diseases caused by poor diets or even choking on food than to die in a mass shooting. Yet despite this being the case, people tend to heavily focus conversation on mass shootings rather than poor diets because of the inherent shock value mass shootings have in the public conscious than someone they personally know that dies from heart attack, stroke, cancer, diabetes, etc.

        Why isn’t there a larger focus on things that make a population sick rather than tools that allow a population to defend themselves? 🤔

  • Makan ☭ CPUSA@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 years ago

    It just means that there’s a lot more societal unrest and mental illness, never mind the rise of white supremacist ultra-right forces.

    Hmmm, ripe for revolution, but could result in an even stronger ultra-right political faction.

    Hmm…

    • i_must_destroy@lemmygrad.ml
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      2 years ago

      I live in the US. It feels like it’s on the verge of total collapse. I’m honestly very scared but there’s nothing I can do about it.

  • Anarcho-Bolshevik@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 years ago

    Imperial America is also (gently) toning down its sanctions on its enemies, notably the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the Republic of Cuba. These are by no means major victories, but they support our prediction that the Empire is slowly dying: it was only a few years ago that it was trying to sanction everybody and their dog in the BRV. Such concessions would have been almost inconceivable then.

    Needless to say, the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie is not going to spend that extra money on civilian infrastructure.

    • CosmonautCat@lemmygrad.ml
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      2 years ago

      Same here. I knew it was bad, but nowhere near this bad. Hope our US comrades stay safe, I can’t even imagine what it’s like going to school or sending your child to school when this is literally happening all over the country multiple times per day.

      • Beat_da_Rich@lemmygrad.ml
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        2 years ago

        It’s just a matter of time before the American mass shootings start being actively and openly sponsored by the state. :[

  • Godless_Nematode@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    There is a mass shooting that leads to calls for more police funding. There are then more mass shootings that the police do not stop so more calls for even more funding. The more shootings the more money for the police. I think the people of the USA are being gaslit.

    • cmrdMiroslav@lemmygrad.ml
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      2 years ago

      That’s my thought. US always has an obscene amount of mass shootings every week. This just seems like business as usual.

    • Beat_da_Rich@lemmygrad.ml
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      2 years ago

      Because there’s no way to address mass shootings unless America addresses a whole host of its other issues (healthcare, poverty, drug addiction, racism, fascists)… which it won’t do… on purpose.

      Because there’s opportunity in the chaos.