Comment on I don’t want to live here (USA) anymore

• papalonian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I see this sentiment posted a lot on here, and while I don’t disagree with the position, I’m not sure I understand what exactly is meant. When you say Americans should “grow a pair and fight”, what are you envisioning? Should I drive to my state capital and shoot the governor in the head?

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  • SattaRIP@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Not everyone is capable of organizing. Not everyone is capable of violence. And humans will always prioritize themselves and their loved ones over strangers. Migration is often seen as the only way to have a future at all.

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    • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Of course, when you live under an oppressive extractive hegemon you at least want to live where the resources are flowing to rather than from.

      That doesn’t have to mean you live in the imperial core, the periphery might be tolerable, but not the bad lands nor the borderlands.

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  • Rooskie91@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Organized resistance overcoming more powerful enemies. You know, that thing the US always claims they’re known for. Although I suppose an honest look at the past would reveal that America has always been slow (putting it lightly) to organize on the right side of history.

    I’m not suggesting violence, necessarily, but I think America’s protests have been relatively toothless and misguided compared to their ancestors. During the first guilded age people protested outside John D. Rockefeller’s house for months._ Can you imagine people protesting outside of Musk’s, Bezos’s, Zuck’s, or Gate’s houses?

    The Montgomery Bus boycott lasted an entire year. Headed by people that had no other means of transportation. Can you imagine people depriving themselves of an essential service, like, say, the internet, for an entire year?

    I just don’t know that people are prepared to do what, historically speaking, it takes to get better living conditions. Not violence, but the patience and persistence it take to truly change society.

    I’m even here writing this long comment instead of doing something in real life.

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    • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      How did they even survive?

      Without the internet I could not work, not keep a roof over my head, not eat, no shower, no electricity. I would physically die in the winter.

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