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Please and Thank You.

I want better for us, and I'm fighting for it, but I have very limited personal power to enact change.

The way "we" looked at those "third-world" countries when I was a child feels like how everyone should be looking at us. Our squalor is not that of unclean water (but that is still true in places) or of systemic violence by the government (but that is still true in places) or of lack of reliable food (but that is still true in places). We have cellphones and internet, cars and roads, and air-conditioning, so we should be happy.

Our squalor is in the apathy and even antipathy a bulk of our fellow citizens have towards others.

The fix is education and awareness, but the means of enacting it have been hijacked. How do I reach someone on the west coast to be kind when I can't touch them from the east coast?

There was a post recently, and I'll link it if I can find it again, about Kevin and his truck, and how helping others builds community. Very wholesome. Community has been lost here outside of the uber-wealthy (they all know each other), or the "poor" who need it to survive. The "middle class" has lost the plot.

It's ironic

They have to work so hard to survive, and yet, when it comes to thinking, they're incredibly lazy

I genuinely pity them, because I know that as a society, they're only in such a situation because they're beaten into submission and apathy

They're placated by unbelievable convenience, having everything an hour's delivery away, and numbed to the fact that that means someone is slaving (I use that term deliberately) for their laziness

The mental gymnastics to justify every part of that shitty, exploitative excuse for a society are endless

And when they see other cultures, where we are actually free, they point and laugh, because they are too ignorant to understand

I spend a lot of time in 'Murica, under duress

I hate the place, I see the cruelty and ignorance, and I would gladly offer asylum to those who deserve it, but even amongst the relatively civilised, that's a small number

They are quite pathetic. All these decades of saber rattling and pleasuring themselves to the fantasy of American freedom and democracy only to be led passively by the collar into their prison cells.

I’d like to see them at least stop melting down at each other and at least unify to remove their problem. I saw a post in the politics sub about Sanders asking them all to just vote and they’re attacking each other across the entire post. This is probably the smallest of the places out there to discuss but if it’s any indication, the same shit will happen this election as well.

They’re resigned to two options and the sooner they accept it the better off they’ll be. The first one is coming up in a couple of months and as many as possible need to be on one page about it.

I think the best system would be not to allow tariffs to be illegally implemented in the first place. But I realize that's asking a lot.

We could at least not have taxpayers foot the bill for businesses to get free money.

Go straight to jail.

IDK, but it does make sense?

For business that were in on the grift, and/or just gouging customers "because tariffs", it absolutely made sense.