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To day as americans we blindly trust everything we're exposed too, not because we're dumb but were inadvertantly trained to. We live in a world now where ticks chase people, broccoli literally makes you ๐Ÿ’ฉ yourself to death, and a phone cost $2k. The cost of living since 1982 excluding inflation has rose 247%, cars cost about 60k on average, food cost about $500 per person per month, and the average wage is about 61k per year. This has been driven by fractional banking (0% now), money stagnation through billion dollar companies, and the intentional inflation and planned degration of products. We have old cars running better then new one's and for a fraction of the price, ai controlling pricing at grocry store, and so much more. Some parting thought i'll leave you with, what do YOU think about all this? how much are YOU willing to allow? What will YOU do about it?

Thank you, for your time.

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[โ€“] RockBottom@feddit.org 0 points 4 hours ago

The TRUE state of "America" (the US) is as follows: you have two choices, a capitlalist party and another capitalist party.

[โ€“] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth. Banks are going bust. Shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be.

We know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is: 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.'

Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get MAD! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your congressman, because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you've got to get mad. (shouting) You've got to say: 'I'm a human being, god-dammit! My life has value!'

So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell: 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not gonna take this anymore!'

I want you to get up right now. Sit up. Go to your windows. Open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not gonna take this anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!...You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not gonna take this anymore!' Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first, get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not gonna take this anymore!'

[โ€“] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I remember back in the 2000s listening to those old soundboard prank call recordings. One used this diatribe. At the time, it was quite amusing and anachronistic to hear someone complaining about "the Russians." How times change, or perhaps how the wheel turns.

[โ€“] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 hours ago

Wdym? Oceania was always at war with Eurasia.

[โ€“] unitedwithme@lemmy.today 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I vote.

I'm not a data prostitute. I have removed my data from big tech, closed all social media and cut all ties. They cannot monetize me to the highest bidder to buy out politicians.

I support small local business.

I don't listen to the propaganda that is mainstream media.

I donate to companies who work and fight FOR us, and try to preserve our humanity; like EFF, Calyx institute, archive.org, Wikipedia, other nonprofits and foundations doing things to better people.

I/we garden and have planted fruit trees to offset food expenses.

I have energy independence with electric having gone solar, have a battery backup, and generator.

I have stocked up on munitions, first aid, and/or personal protective equipment

Feel free to give me more ideas to break down the system.

Edit: to do list:

  1. Gain financial independence from banking institutions who keep you in revolving debt
  2. By land