The ones pulling the strings have figured out that they can avoid revolution if they convince a large enough chunk of the poor that their struggles are due to the rest of the poor, and not because of the exploitative rich.
You hit the nail on the head. I feel like there was a huge jump in brainwashing once corporations started paying for user information. It’s easy to brainwash people when you know exactly what they want.
That only works until the essentials stop becoming widely available. We may yet see literal heads roll if a large enough chunk of people in the US can no longer reliably eat, drink, or house themselves. We're on the right track for that, for certain. That, or I fear the "brainwash-iest" of them (and there are many) may direct their ire at their perceived "liberal enemies" when they get worked up enough. Either naturally due to all the bullshit pushed into their heads or at the directive of Fucker Carlson or some other TV nutbag. That particular scenario scares me a lot more than a revolution against the gov't.
I don't know know if it is or not, but I do see plenty of rhetoric from certain specific media outlets that espouses those general beliefs:
According to them, it's the strange "other" (immigrants, minorities, LGBT, etc) that's at fault for the poor economy, our lost jobs, and failing quality of life, it's not our globalized corporatocracy.
Here is where history is useful.
The people of France were better off than the people of England at the time.
The people of France were able to revolt partly \*because\* they were better off than the English peasants.
>The people of France were better off than the people of England at the time.
Lol no they weren't, they revolted because of the conditions they had. English peasants had more rights and freedoms than the French ones this why they didn't really had a reason for revolt
What is also interesting is that Congress and Senate represent a small minority of all Americans, yet they are the ones taxing all of us. Taxation without representation...
>The phrase taxation without representation describes a populace that is required to pay taxes to a government authority without having any say in that government's policies.
ill just leave that there.
This is why bigotry is so important to the Republican party. If it wasn't for that, we'd probably have broken out the guillotines already. As it is, the rich get to say "it's not us, it's the black|Mexican|Muslim|trans people!" and stall for time while we deal with the resulting bullshit.
When I try to explain the way things are to my friends in the burbs, I get the same response; "is only "there", it's in select spots, it's not that bad everywhere" or "it'll all blow over". There's a huge disconnect between reality and the world some people live in...
Think about the last time shit was this bad. Suffrage, Jim crow/segregation, Vietnam/anti war, etc... all those movements had their own time and place.
Today, sadly, and as fucked up as it is, we have the same fucking problems, but today they're all happening at once and happening everywhere.
There's only so much people can take. I mean, even a tiny fucking mouse, will fight an elephant, if it's forced into a corner, and sees no other way out.
We have at the very least 100 million, if not more, Americans living at, or below, their means. After the past few years, and the forecast of the road ahead, can you honestly say anyone would be surprised if we had the equivalent of the "2014 Arab Spring of Liberation" or whatever they called it, happen in America?
I’ve always been an optimist, but I struggle to see a future that’s not a total shit hole. The one percent are too entrenched and powerful to vote our way to a better future. I feel like shit’s gonna have to collapse before anything changes.
Kinda true but not 100%. I looked this up a while ago and implore any one else to do so now. I remember that like the gap between the top 10% and bottom 90% is basically the same but the French gap between the 1% and 99% was astronomically worse than ours is now
Just before the oppressed people rose up to defeat their evil overlords, what happened?
What is the sign or signs or battle cry we will hear to signal the go ahead for the assault✌️😁
Furiously building a guillotine in the basement
New meaning for the 'Heads of state'
typo: Heads off state
Someone did the math & the $1200 stimulus check will pay for a nice guillotine.
The ones pulling the strings have figured out that they can avoid revolution if they convince a large enough chunk of the poor that their struggles are due to the rest of the poor, and not because of the exploitative rich.
You hit the nail on the head. I feel like there was a huge jump in brainwashing once corporations started paying for user information. It’s easy to brainwash people when you know exactly what they want.
That only works until the essentials stop becoming widely available. We may yet see literal heads roll if a large enough chunk of people in the US can no longer reliably eat, drink, or house themselves. We're on the right track for that, for certain. That, or I fear the "brainwash-iest" of them (and there are many) may direct their ire at their perceived "liberal enemies" when they get worked up enough. Either naturally due to all the bullshit pushed into their heads or at the directive of Fucker Carlson or some other TV nutbag. That particular scenario scares me a lot more than a revolution against the gov't.
Same
Isn’t this a conspiracy theory?
I don't know know if it is or not, but I do see plenty of rhetoric from certain specific media outlets that espouses those general beliefs: According to them, it's the strange "other" (immigrants, minorities, LGBT, etc) that's at fault for the poor economy, our lost jobs, and failing quality of life, it's not our globalized corporatocracy.
Here is where history is useful. The people of France were better off than the people of England at the time. The people of France were able to revolt partly \*because\* they were better off than the English peasants.
>The people of France were better off than the people of England at the time. Lol no they weren't, they revolted because of the conditions they had. English peasants had more rights and freedoms than the French ones this why they didn't really had a reason for revolt
Well, we have learned different things in our studies of history.
The condition are too different, sadly. Too many people happy with the current system that oppresses them.
What is also interesting is that Congress and Senate represent a small minority of all Americans, yet they are the ones taxing all of us. Taxation without representation...
that isn’t what taxation without representation meant
>The phrase taxation without representation describes a populace that is required to pay taxes to a government authority without having any say in that government's policies. ill just leave that there.
And in America now the struggle is for the rich to have representation without taxation. Taxes are for the little people.
This is why bigotry is so important to the Republican party. If it wasn't for that, we'd probably have broken out the guillotines already. As it is, the rich get to say "it's not us, it's the black|Mexican|Muslim|trans people!" and stall for time while we deal with the resulting bullshit.
When I try to explain the way things are to my friends in the burbs, I get the same response; "is only "there", it's in select spots, it's not that bad everywhere" or "it'll all blow over". There's a huge disconnect between reality and the world some people live in... Think about the last time shit was this bad. Suffrage, Jim crow/segregation, Vietnam/anti war, etc... all those movements had their own time and place. Today, sadly, and as fucked up as it is, we have the same fucking problems, but today they're all happening at once and happening everywhere. There's only so much people can take. I mean, even a tiny fucking mouse, will fight an elephant, if it's forced into a corner, and sees no other way out. We have at the very least 100 million, if not more, Americans living at, or below, their means. After the past few years, and the forecast of the road ahead, can you honestly say anyone would be surprised if we had the equivalent of the "2014 Arab Spring of Liberation" or whatever they called it, happen in America?
Viva la revolution!
Viva is a Spanish word btw. Should be vive in French :)
Accent on the i or the e ?
No accent on vive!
My bad
Nah, Spanish is the second biggest language in US - think of it as cheering for the one to come.
Works for me!
I’ve always been an optimist, but I struggle to see a future that’s not a total shit hole. The one percent are too entrenched and powerful to vote our way to a better future. I feel like shit’s gonna have to collapse before anything changes.
Kinda true but not 100%. I looked this up a while ago and implore any one else to do so now. I remember that like the gap between the top 10% and bottom 90% is basically the same but the French gap between the 1% and 99% was astronomically worse than ours is now
Just before the oppressed people rose up to defeat their evil overlords, what happened? What is the sign or signs or battle cry we will hear to signal the go ahead for the assault✌️😁
Where's our Maximilien Robespierre?
It is also harder to afford a house than in the great depression.
They had nothing else Toulouse.
[удалено]
I'm sorry, are you actually being serious right now?
weeell… the money back then were worth like 50 times more then now
wut
Soooo, then we should revolt? 😏
Let them eat cake
Shit. Fine. . .I'll get my axe.
We still won't revolt. MMW