I was reading about the French Revolution yesterday and the thing that really got things started was mass starvation. Something like 90% of French citizens were actively starving.

There will need to be a singular suffering affecting 90+% of people before we'll all take to the streets and put heads on pikes. I'm guessing climate change might get us there.

I totally get your point,

I’m crossing my fingers that the midterms (or lack thereof) will be the turning point.

but a friendly reminder to everyone in that same position: hope is not a strategy. At least try to come up with a plan for when it get worse. Do not be naive; as long as it can get worse, it likely will be.

From the outside it looks like it’s similar to turning a big ship in a way. It’s just taking time for it to turn; meaning enough to get sick of it. It’s definitely wrong now to say nothings being done by people, you’ve only got to look at the videos people are taking of the migration police to see there’s resistance flowing through.

This situation here is a clear abandonment of media responsibility. Journalists themselves, or their profession, will take the reputational fall for this and it won’t matter if that’s fair to them or not. The right kind of reporting on this would go a long way to driving resistance against it.

Yeah I hope the midterms are somehow fair and held. It’s the best solution. I hope people turn out for them too if they are. The more that do, the harder it should be to rig or prevent voting at the polling booths.

It fucking seems like that from the inside too. Fuck this shit hole country full of fucking fascist bigots.

I think you mean buy up all the news outlets. Make them mouth pieces for the rich rather than focusing on facts. Discredit news as fake and watch people turn to their echo chambers to learn about anything and nothing at the same time. How many people including yourself do you knowtjay doesn't trust the news. Gotta be close to batting a thousand at this point no?

I can’t do it anymore because the “press” are actually just fascist influencers and they are all lying. I don’t believe a single thing any journalist had to say. I don’t believe a single thing the government has to say. I’ll never respect the rapist president. I’ll never accept the heroin addict running the health department. Countries are ideas and this one is fucking dead.

You might be doing all you can but WE as the collective aren’t doing jack shit. I see our people going to Chick-fil-A like there’s no other food available. Buying cheap tshirts from Walmart or Amazon. Thinking walking in circles in scheduled areas is a protest.

so, this might be kind of a risky comment but please bear with me

i mean the problem starts within yourself, and i don't mean that in an "you're not doing enough" way. the problem starts because we can't even define what a solution would look like. i believe that as soon as we have a better way of doing things, we will. the problem is just that in today's america, there is no significant vision for a worthwhile tomorrow. and that's the actual crisis. if you think that i'm wrong, please do explain how you imagine the future of the country in 40 years.

and i don't mean "go back to how it was in 2000" or something. that does not work. the crisis is an economic crisis, first and foremost. there's mass automation, already since the 1970s. more and more jobs are being removed, and if new branches of economy stagnate, then we'll eventually run out of jobs. that naturally creates a mass unemployment phenomenon. what do you do about that?

when you've answered that question, we can think about all the other problems too. :-)

So then the only way to vote against them is third party, but that requires admitting to oneself just how badly we're really losing.