Bread and circuses.
Though that’s a little antiquated, so now it’s “high fructose corn syrup and superbowl”.
What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country?
Submitted 2 months ago by Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 2 months ago
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
fat basically
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Is this like some sort of soy bullshit?
DaddysLittleSlut@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No honestly most are mad in some sorta of way but we have a militia of trigger happy enforces and the biggest military in the world. Not much we can do without outside support. If we peacefully protest. They arrest you, shoot and kill you. Call you a terrorist, possibly even ban you from getting jobs.
MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You aren’t going to get shot. Dont give up just yet.
DaddysLittleSlut@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah no worries for me. While it may sometimes feel hopeless but I have to try. Only issue is I’ve applied at over 7k jobs and barely heard back from 40-50.
tupcakes@midwest.social 2 months ago
Yet…
DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Apathy
BunnyKnuckles@startrek.website 2 months ago
They’re rasict and it’s exactly what they want.
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If you’re keeping your self from being angry because the rascist want you to be angry you’re still basing your behavior based on what racists want.
BunnyKnuckles@startrek.website 2 months ago
Not sure I understand your comment. Maybe mine wasn’t clear either. The question was: What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country? My clarified response is: Because most Americans are racist and voted for a racist and they’re not mad because the current state of their country is exact what they want.
Maybe not a nuianced or particularly fair response but, regardless, I’m not sure what that has to do with my behavior or feelings.
474D@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The combination of hopelessness and misinformation is very powerful
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Probably true
Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 2 months ago
aesthelete@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The feeling that nobody else really gives a shot is what does it for me.
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I care too, what can I do to prove that I care to you?
aesthelete@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I believe you, but this is also a very left-leaning site that pretty much filters out all of the conservative idiocy from it. The general public doesn’t seem to give a shit and when I go out and about in the world it’s like nothing has even changed. I suspect it will be this way for a while even if eventually there is full-blown fascism with a world war, and death camps. I remember reading remarks by people who were around during the formation of the Third Reich in Germany and I remember them writing something like all the shops and everything were open and people were going to work like normal for a large portion of it. There was even a person that didn’t realize how crazy the country had gotten until he saw his small child imitating Hitler and saying antisemitic shit about Jews.
reksas@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
fear maybe
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Maybe they should start assessing what they should really be afraid of. Take a deep dive into what Russia is really like because that’s wh a t the GOP sold us out for.
reksas@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
I hope the people who are fighting back understand the importance of making it known people are fighting back. Hope is really important.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Nothing? We’re furious. We just can’t do much to stop it.
NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Random question but are any Americans being more careless with loans? It kind of seems like the US is on a crash course with an iceberg and I admit I’d feel a bit more at ease with debt in that situation than normally
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Try all your typical college grads.
Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My cat purred at me and it was heartwarming until I paid attention and then it was fucking infuriating
HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 2 months ago
bread and circuses, mostly
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ah. Well it was worth it then.
Triasha@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Americans are pissed as all hell. Michael Moore said in 2016 “the American people will throw Donald Trump into Washington like a Molotov Cocktail.”
We do not agree who is at fault. 40% the voters think it’s brown people and queer people and about 30% of them think it’s the wealthy.
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Just so you know that molotov cocktail didn’t land it washington. It will land on every Americans doorstep.
Triasha@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They don’t realize that… Yet.
Jackthelad@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They voted for it, so why would they be mad?
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Why would they be mad? Why would they be mad about DEI when they are still the most catered too and entrenched class with access to generational wealth.
gimmelemmy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You’d think with that username…
ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 2 months ago
I also wonder this but then the people that voted for trump are very happy.
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Nahh. I know those people. They’ve never felt a bit of happiness in their life. They might feel satisfaction when others are pained but these are truly miserable people.
ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 2 months ago
Meh, I think disagreeing with them doesn’t make them miserable. A lot of family voted for them and they aren’t “trumpers” or miserable. Probably happier than me. That’s kind of wishful thinking on your part.
shortrounddev@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Idk what you’re talking about most Americans are mad at the state of out country
FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Americans ARE mad, but the moderates and liberals have been on a decades-long crusade against gun ownership and now they dont know what to do because they aren’t armed, and when you tell them to arm up and march they start whining sone bullshit about MLK and Ghandi even though one was shot and the other never did anything of use.
9/11 happened because they’d been told all their life to stay in their seats and let authorities handle hijackings. Despite all the chest-pounding and fist-pumping, Americans are weak, lily-livered pussy-assed losers and will absolutely be destroyed by inaction exactly like Biden’s legacy will be.
FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Now watch as some snide little pencilneck will respond with some “you first, chief!” shitbaggerie. It has happened every other time I said this…
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And, if you think we could fight and win against the US govt and all of its current supporters, you are grossly mistaken.
scarabic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Mets not forget that America’s founding was a rich man’s revolution. It was the wealthy here who banded together to expunge their parent corporation and go independent. There is no tradition of popular revolt in this country, unless you want to count the civil war, wherein the wealthy (again) weaponized the racism of the lower class to protect their business interests. That part sound familiar?
K1nsey6@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The delusion that their party will someday fix it