Post #3781529

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.