Global Politics - General Chat

[tr0nic]

Americans lack political imagination and a will to act and what is coming is a result of that.

I sympathize with this and agree with it 75%. But I was also there in NYC during the Summer of 2020, in a Level IV ballistic vest and a Kevlar helmet throwing fireworks at the NYPD. To say we were squashed before we even began is an understatement. We did try to act. Foundations were laid for radical change, but at least half the country decided they love violence and hurting their neighbors more than change. We are facing the strongest empire in human history, and most of us still have a long way to fall before we have nothing to lose. But we will fall.

Taking things a little personally aside, I still mostly agree. I and the others I stood with are/were an outlier compared to the average strip mall-brained American from the Midwest. And those are the people that are going to feel the heat from this empire collapsing. They're going to come to love those 'handouts' they say they hate very, very soon when their homes inevitably become tent cities.

Don't even get me started on Palestine, I have to actively untense my jaw just thinking about the videos I've seen that have come out of Gaza.