this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2025
368 points (97.7% liked)
Not The Onion
17712 readers
947 users here now
Welcome
We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!
The Rules
Posts must be:
- Links to news stories from...
- ...credible sources, with...
- ...their original headlines, that...
- ...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”
Please also avoid duplicates.
Comments and post content must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.
And that’s basically it!
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Nobody needs an old story book to know how to be a good person. The issue lies not with a lack of bibles, but with a manufactured lack of social cohesion. Years of propaganda against socialism and unions have lured a big part of the US population in a trap of "hyperindiviualism", where you are preyed upon if you don't play the same game of "me first".
Fixing this needs politicians that come from the people and work for the people, but the rich part of society has undermined the (sadly bad designed) process where such people can rise up into positions where they can make decisions. The common folk is under permanent attack by the 0.1%, and many of them (see MAGA) don't even recognize from where the systematic violence they are experiencing comes, because they get fed that socialism is the thing that oppresses them.
If you add religion to this cocktail, it acts like adding a hypergolic fuel into a house fire. It gets instrumentalised to create an in-group and to define an outgroup. Religion is not the way out.
The US are in quite a pickle, and from the outside i don't see many peaceful ways out of this situation.
Addressing your first sentence specifically, do you not value the lessons myths and legends teach?
As for the rest, I made another comment, the United States (and every other society for that matter) has the choice of ballots or bullets. If the first stop working, then the Second Amendment comes into play.