I’m black, guy. I’ve never known the American dream. You’re just now realizing what I’ve known all my life and I’m sad for you because of that.
The American Dream is turning into. the American Nightmare real quick
Submitted 2 weeks ago by BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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devolution@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m sad for you in return
TheDoctorDonna@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
The American Dream was an illusion. It was all propaganda for convince people to feed themselves to the capitalist machine for a chance at living the dream life, but even people who aren’t trapped under years of medical debt or homeless or visible minorities don’t have it easy, they’ve just been convinced that’s as good as it gets.
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
I had my eyes opened in my 20’s when talking to a few black people I knew. The description of what they had to do and faced in our society made me realize a lot. It’s always been a nightmare, I was just lucky I was a white one.
Witchfire@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s been the American nightmare for most of my life
Signed, a trans immigrant
Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“It’s called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it”
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 2 weeks ago
It’s always been pretty bad for large chunks of the population. This seems like a low point, but there have been many lows in living memory. Civil rights movement in the 60s. Vietnam war. War on drugs. Countless cruelties done to non-whites and queer folks.
Even the idealized stuff of “buy a house on one income” was more for white people than anything else. Redlining, mortgage discrimination, “and then the white people burned down our house” were all realities.
This country has always been deeply racist. The wealthy ownership class has largely been soulless ghouls. Maybe they build libraries and museums for a while, but they still oversaw tremendous suffering and poverty.
Pherenike@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Has for decades now
xSikes@feddit.online 2 weeks ago
The American Dream is a shitty water park shopping mall in New Jersey.
Witchfire@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The American Dream is hoping you don’t die in a repurposed KMart at the hands of your highschool bully
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Always has been my dude lol
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I want to live a Norweigian Dream…
But they are strict on immigration so… 🤷♂️
I still rather be American than being Chinese… I hate my former country with a passion, corrupt ass CCP stole my country and tried to end my existence wirh stupid “One Child Policy”… So it’s not my country anymore
/end rant
May my next life be born a Norweigian pls…
Or you know… an actual utopic advanced space-faring alien civilization
devolution@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
So then what’s your take on our current administration doing their damndest to emulate your former country?
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Big difference:
Half of Americans are resisting
There are near zero resistance in China
There are still anti-trump and anti-republican/MAGA media despite the ongoing autocratization
You cannot find anti-Xi or anti-CCP in China, most people do not have that spirit of resistance, they don’t care
See all these protests, good luck finding them in China, protests in China is rare, and basically no media coverage if it even exists
I will call myself an American for as long as this flame is alive, even if its struggling as of now, its not completely dead yet, there’s still time to fix this. We’re not CCP-land yet. Don’t lose hope, that’s what the rich and powerful want, they want you to give up.