Post #3756334

2026-07-05 02:37 UTC

Because Americans are cowards. Not saying this to mock them but they have grown incredibly lazy over the decades, they are not ready to lose any comfort so they mostly keep quiet. Pair that with a surveillance state that they have been specifically and repeatedly warned about over last 2 decades - they are fucked. I wonder how are “I have nothing to hide” and “They are not going to spy on me” geniuses rationalizing it now. I used to be mocked and laughed at when I tried warning people about what awaits them in the future (never mind that it is also my area of expertise and those people knew it). I don’t give a fuck anymore and they are screaming and posting angry messages on social media expecting someone else will fight for them. I suppose that’s the end result of brain washing your population with super hero movies. But noone is coming to save them.

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@breezeblock@lemmy.ca 2026-07-05 03:29

The system is set up to keep us busy and living hand to mouth. Not to mention Fox News and the right wing media exists entirely to lie straight to our faces and fill our brains with culture wars so the average person has no idea which way is up.

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@BoneheadBruin@pawb.social 2026-07-06 04:18

I think something a lot of people miss is the actual scale of the US as a country. My state is blue. My local government is mostly tolerable although not as far left as I’d prefer. Rioting here accomplishes nothing. For me to join a protest with a meaningful impact I would need to travel to Washington D.C… That trip alone would cost me 450 euros before fees and any food/shelter. It would require that I leave my job if I stayed for more than a week and because I have no job I can’t pay rent so I must surrender my belongings and uproot my family. For a west-coast American to actually protest at the capitol of America it would be a similar travel scale to an Irishman traveling to Moscow to protest the EU. This just isn’t achievable for the average person without your life already having entirely collapsed in the first place.

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@SalmonTractor@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-07-06 07:55

Unfortunately the “comforts” are basic life things like medications to live and being able to live in your home. We aren’t talking about having Netflix. You protest, you miss work, you are fired, you lose your income, no safety net, no healthcare, loans and debts take your home car (very little public transport that works in much of the country) and life away, and you and your entire family are homeless on a street corner and possibly dying. Inside of 2 weeks for a majority of Americans. Even insulin is hard to acquire without “the system”.

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