americans are selfish
(midwest.social)
lumpenproletariat
FlippanarchyHaven't most Americans been against this war since the beginning?
I'm sure more are turning against it cuz I'd the gas prices, but this war hasn't had much support
I dont know where OOP got that idea from. Americans were never for this and polling data bears that out, especially relative to most wars which have had extremely high levels of approval at the outset, even for ones like Vietnam and Iraq that later became massively unpopular.
And two thirds of the country voted for him or didn't even bother to show up!
This administration has made me a straight up anarchist. Fuck this bullshit government system, fuck all government, laws don't matter anymore, fuck money and fuck corporations.
Always have been Like, really. Anti-war mouvement are massives during conscription. People are protecting their own interests, and is a good think to build grass root mobilization (or organization)
Americans are isolated by a very carefully crafted coccoon of corporate media sources that generally downplay, spin or ignore real humanitarian stories when they make the US looks bad. This has been the norm since Bush Sr. And I say this as one, because I've completely eliminated all conventional media from my life because it's fucking useless.
Snippets the media drop about a far off war do not register with the US public until it hits their pocket books, probably because said media has conditioned them to be numb to war being the default state.
Copy pasting a comment I made on a similar meme
Not to give excuses for people but it's also perfectly reasonable to express concern for something that directly affects one's daily life, before an abstract system of domination.
Moral evaluation is overridden when one's purchasing power and thus livelihood is threatened. The Yellow Vests in France started because of a gas price hike, and then transformed into a political movement. The Boston Tea Party into the American Revolution. Police Corruption in Tunisia into the Arab Spring... It always starts with concrete issues and then expands in critic of the system.
Thank you. People tend to look at individual and societal behaviors from the same point of view.
Access to quality information, presence of logical frameworks, proper moral frameworks over heuristics, biases, propaganda, etc. play much greater roles in influencing societal behavior rather than a simple explanation of "society is so selfish".
Just a personal observation, but looking at stuff in this manner creates resentment against society and makes it seem irredeemable. This is bad, as it hinders any motivation to change it for the good.
I believe I read the fallout of this kind of thinking, precisely because France, American Slavers, and Hamas didn't end in good solidifying endings for every one of these overridden purchasing powers and livelihood [finally] threatened.
France has Nazis, in a very far right government.
American never ceased its slave trade if the Epstein files were read correctly.
And Hamas doesn't condemned slavery. It actively supports it.
I am not so sure anarchists should solidify with slavers, while 🇺🇲 promises to eradicate Iran from the maps.
I feel like some points you make are a bit unrelated?
- what fallout?
- yellow vests and the french government giving in to nazis have no relation to one another, but happy to expand on that specific part if you'd like, there a cool article on the subject that summarizes key elements to this movement, translate at your convenience
- what does hamas have to do in any of this?
I'm not sure I understand your point but explaining how movements start with material triggers doesn't mean we have to align with governments
what fallout?
The 🧵 where you said your own paste, within context?
french government giving in to nazis
So you're saying French people are more selfless after yellow vest and the state moving further Nazi?
hamas
The effects of the Arab Spring?
movements start with material triggers doesn’t mean we have to align with governments
And I am pointing out where the have ended: slavery. All these triggers lead to slavery. I am praying there are other tactics not to reend there.
Unfortunately this is partially because a large portion of the US populace doesn't ever hear the truth. So much time and effort has been spent on overtaking media outlets that even -after- gas prices started rising there are people who don't realize it's because of the war. It's disgusting, and I have no idea what the average person can do about it. It feels like I'm shouting into the void.
For Americans whose praxis has always been colonialism and slavery, you're shouting at your enemies that you're their opponent.
Otherwise, ICE and deportations would have never existed in the first place.
Neolibs hate this graph precisely because it points out their lies.
...wtf is that graph? why is biden five years and trump 1 just two?
Obama was still responsible for the killings during his last few days of 2017.
Biden is only responsible for killing folks after the end of January of 2021.
Tis why it's a translucent shade of blue, and not opaque.
Very confusing visualization. There's gotta be a better way.
I welcome comrades to fix it!
You need others to fix your errors?
Why not fix it yourself or (low effort) edit your post?
Because you're missing the point of intersecting?
if 2017 is blue, so should 2025. the blue areas should be by month.
Agreed. pls🙏 reattempt a better graph.
I just edited the one from the post.
quick edits like that cost credibility.
to what?
They didn't care when the Iranians killed tens of thousands either.
Seems they are quite self absorbed in general.
Iran killed way more than just tens of thousands, it was more like five gajillions
