Surely the US Empire must go down in history as one of the most insane ones
Like, people go to school not knowing if they die. People go to church not knowing if they die. People go to sleep and get shot by police. Black people go to do shopping and get shot. People go to concerts and get shot. How can any country function like this?
Other countries: Go to a wedding get blown up by a US drone. Go to the funeral for those killed at the wedding get blown up by a US drone. Reporters at the scene of the drone strike get shot from US helicoters. US likes to spread their crazy.
Almost as crazy as nazi Germany.
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A lot of countries work like this.
I know I’m going to get downvoted for this, but millions of americans go to school, church, concerts, etc, and have no worries whatsoever about getting shot because the statistical probability of that happening is so low that the average American is extremely more likely to die from preventable diseases caused by poor diets or even choking on food than to die in a mass shooting. Yet despite this being the case, people tend to heavily focus conversation on mass shootings rather than poor diets because of the inherent shock value mass shootings have in the public conscious than someone they personally know that dies from heart attack, stroke, cancer, diabetes, etc.
Why isn’t there a larger focus on things that make a population sick rather than tools that allow a population to defend themselves? 🤔
It can’t be that uncommon now if there were 13 in a week…
I never said that it wasn’t uncommon, I said that most Americans don’t worry about it because the odds of it happening to any specific individual is very low.
people go to concerts and die from crowd collapses, like thats insane and it happens very often.
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how do we even have school children left at this point
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Just you wait. The reactionaries are going to end public school altogether.
an average of one <span style=“font-size: 32px”>mass</span> shooting every day in that flourishing democracy
It just means that there’s a lot more societal unrest and mental illness, never mind the rise of white supremacist ultra-right forces.
Hmmm, ripe for revolution, but could result in an even stronger ultra-right political faction.
Hmm…
I live in the US. It feels like it’s on the verge of total collapse. I’m honestly very scared but there’s nothing I can do about it.
Join an org. It provides at least some protection. Plus, you need comrades in real life.
On one side, revoluctionary us would be nice, but chances are stagerring low, on the other side, accelerationism go brrrrrrr
Accelerationist sentiment is ultimately harmful. It is best to work on building a movement.
Yeah, i think accelerationism without an strong organized working class is going to result only in fascism and the strenghthening of the status quo.
Also we can organize and politicize the working class when things are ok. Maybe it is even easier
Accelerationist sentiment period is dangerous.
What’s really crazy is that as someone outside the US I only heard about one of these.
Same here. I knew it was bad, but nowhere near this bad. Hope our US comrades stay safe, I can’t even imagine what it’s like going to school or sending your child to school when this is literally happening all over the country multiple times per day.
It’s just a matter of time before the American mass shootings start being actively and openly sponsored by the state. :[
just an average american cheeseburger week, #1 country in the world
Couldn’t pay me enough to live there
See the thing is… They don’t actually pay most of the actual citizens enough to live here either.
Where do you live and are they accepting applications?
Yes they’re accepting applications, but no you don’t wanna live here mate. It is rapidly becoming a dystopia too
Pandemic’s over, back to daily routine
I have great respect for any American kid who is growing up right now and still retains a minimum of sanity. Surrounded by school shootings, coronaviruses on steroids, racism, a deregulated economy, a straight-up villainous government, institutional fraud, nepotism, and corruption, religious lunacy, poverty, poisoning, and malnutrition, caught in a circle of work and debt at a young age, and daily walking among the artifacts of the world’s grandest schemes advancing war, pollution, narco-terrorism, sex trafficking, and tropical deforestation yet unable to do anything against it.
How are they able to put up with all this?
By mainlining TikTok.
Well, I haven’t been able to put up with it very well. Shortly after starting 10th grade, I became depressed and my grades fell to the point that I would not have been able to fix them no matter how hard I tried. This continued throughout 11th grade. Eventually, I stopped doing work altogether, and now, near the end of 11th grade, I took and passed a test that has allowed me to stop going to school. My mental health is better, but I still have to suppress thoughts about what’s going on in this country because not doing so leads to depression and panic attacks.
Most people deal with it by being in denial, using TikTok, watching Netflix all day, playing video games, and focusing so hard on doing homework that they have no energy to think of anything else.
Wait, your life went to shit shortly after 10th grade, and now as an 11th grader you gave up on school altogether? Me too, what are the chances?! I gotta take summer school, but that’s life. (plus that means I’ll actually have something to do.) Lucky for me I don’t really stress about the fall of the Empire, (I don’t got much to lose) I just hope I can do something the upcoming fascism.
Also now that I realize it, what IS the average age on Lemmygrad?
I had a breakdown or two and did the test as soon as I turned 16. There are other kids who are having major issues too I know.
Now I’m almost 20 living on our 5 acres with fam. I’m investing the money I have in crypto, budgeting for things like a good 4K (~$200), maybe PC (~$300). Trying to work on stuff online with people. Close to finishing my TEFL course in case I need to use it.
I get stressed out from a bit of trauma and about how f*cked the world is and how hard it will probably be to do something about it.
They double down on it and support it, usually.
Tiktok
Most americans kids don’t know and what they do know they don’t hold that negative an opinion of as you do. America is still better than most of the world for a child.
I’m not going to take too many risks until I can get out of this failed state.
Wasn’t the US always like this?
It’s been bad for a while, but has really skyrocketed since about 2010 it seems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shootings_in_the_United_States?wprov=sfti1
That’s my thought. US always has an obscene amount of mass shootings every week. This just seems like business as usual.
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Because there’s no way to address mass shootings unless America addresses a whole host of its other issues (healthcare, poverty, drug addiction, racism, fascists)… which it won’t do… on purpose.
Because there’s opportunity in the chaos.
There is a mass shooting that leads to calls for more police funding. There are then more mass shootings that the police do not stop so more calls for even more funding. The more shootings the more money for the police. I think the people of the USA are being gaslit.
I don’t understand how more police funding will stop mass shootings. What can police do before some maniac shoots the place up?
nothing, but if they had more funding they could have stopped it
thats basically what they do
how?
oh, I mean they say “we could have stopped it, but alas, we didn’t have enough troops, tanks, money etc”
Its a nonsense tactic
Imperial America is also (gently) toning down its sanctions on its enemies, notably the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the Republic of Cuba. These are by no means major victories, but they support our prediction that the Empire is slowly dying: it was only a few years ago that it was trying to sanction everybody and their dog in the BRV. Such concessions would have been almost inconceivable then.
Needless to say, the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie is not going to spend that extra money on civilian infrastructure.
Who do you believe may successfully take charge afterwards? I hope it’s not the military/police/corporations.
I’m sorry, but I don’t know yet.
Link me to the site.
It’s all the Nazi apologia going on relating to the situation in Ukraine, the Far-Right take that shit as a call to arms.
