It’s not others’ jobs to fix your own country. Here we’re all baffled at your lack of responsiveness in face of the situation. Especially when you were so vocal about your guns and freedom and so on.

Where are the constant protests? The strikes? Why is nothing in fire yet? The guy removed the barely functioning thing that passed for social security in your country and you did nothing? He made all the prices jump by at least 20% in a few months and still nothing? He let a billionaire install his 18 years old “hackers” with goofy names steal all your data and fire half the public workers, no? He refuses to help your allies and threatens to invade them? He created his own private militia and arrests people on sight because they’re brown to send them in death camps? And you watch on the sides?

Nobody’s coming to save you because it’s not our job, it’s yours.

Literally 1984

The answer to why resides in the way wealth is allocated in society. If you look at the graph of the wealth of the 0.1%, the median income and the economical growth, those three numbers were growing at a steady pace up until the 70~80s. Now our economies are growing at a similar rate but median income plateaued/is decreasing while the wealth of people at the top has skyrocketed.

It’s not hard to figure out where all that growth went.

We could still afford such a lifestyle. Or we could learn to share more and end poverty and respect the Earth. But instead we’re allowing a small village of cunts to each have more money and power than entire countries.

RIP what was left of the US tourism industry

What’s crazy to me is that there is no sensible person in there anymore? Putin has dirt on Donald so everyone accepts that now they do Putin’s bidding? Is there noone with a spine or some thin traces of honor and pride somewhere in the bunch?

If that can help remove TikTok and other similar short form algorithmic crack from people with developing brains, I’ll support any of Hillary’s theories.

Why on Earth would you reduce armaments when you have a warring country that is ostensibly hostile to yours nearby, and is making plans to invade the countries you’re directly bordering? Countries that you are allied to, both politically and militarily?

So that’s why he agrees with whoever he spoke to.

You seem to have misinterpreted my point.

It’s not about people being uninterested in politics, it’s about most people losing the ability to even see politics as something else than some topic you could be interested in or not. To feel like they might be able to have any kind of meaningful effect on their environment. And it’s not about mental illness being criminalized it’s about mental illness being used (conscientiously or not) as a tool to fight against dissent.

And why would it be ridiculous? Culturally enforced and internalized rules are way stronger than the ones enforced by coercion. I agree that it’s worse on a personal level to risk being arrested for a thought crime and institutionalized or sent into some camp as a result of it. But as a society it’s less effective and pernicious than the collective apathy and political impotence we’re swimming in.

Under the Soviet union people saw or knew other disappeared. They knew something was happening and that they’d better shut up about it. When you were caught as an enemy of the state or of the ideology, you at least had a clear indication of what outside force is at work against you. Psychologically it’s very different.

Nowadays apart for the few percents that are actually politically active (and even some if not most of those are not spared on the inside), people feel that it’s their fault if they don’t fit in, they feel or are told by the ambient noise that they have to fix themselves, that the problem is them. That there is a disconnect from reality, from the world. The classical “what is wrong?”. And to be happy, to fix that, all they have is to consume, focus on themselves, find themselves, improve, or just look like they’re doing that. Like rats taking electrical discharge after discharge with no way to get out or even understand what’s causing it in sight.

France - April to August 1906 - Fressenneville - The locksmiths’ strike: The town square and the castle burned down (Begun in April 1906, this movement lasted 5 months. The workers at the Riquier locksmiths’ factory wanted employers’ organizations to respect union rights. The strike reached a rare level of violence in the face of the employers’ intransigence and repression. The burning of Édouard Riquier’s castle was a prime example.)

It’s not what you are doing. It is how it has evolved though.

Apart from fringe activist groups, who thinks of politics as something they have to make happen on a daily basis?

The political way to process through the various clashing forces that make our societies has almost totally given way to the individualized injunction of dealing with the consequences. It’s in the zeitgeist, all the injunction to self-care, self-improvement and so on. If you are centered on yourself, you won’t priorize the collective.

And saying that doesn’t negate the usefulness of psychology and therapy work at the individual level. Nor does it imply a big conspiracy or something of the sort.

Kinda how it works in our late stage capitalist societies to be honest, except that it’s collective pressure/belief instead of state-imposed.

You have trouble accepting the shitty state the world is in? You don’t want to be exploited and end the month with not enough to pay your rent? You’re fed up with that human crushing machine that keeps on destroying the planet because There Is No Alternative?

Well, you should consult you might be a tiny bit depressed. Take antidepressants and shut the fuck up. Learn to see and focus on the beauty in life and the little things instead. Take small hobbies, a lover or a cat. How you deal with all of that is your own individual problem.

Does it seem so normal that you really can’t see any other way? Congratulations, you are well programmed. Those problems aren’t to be delt with on an individual level, they are political.

In the past, most people formed unions and parties and did strikes, political rallys, protested and burned the landowners’ manors as a way to process those kind of feelings.

They did not say what you’re implying them saying. There is a world between not caring about people getting arrested by ICE, and not wanting every other post being about Trump’s antics or US politics.

Plus, if they are blind, I guess it’s harder for them to decide “at a glance” what they’d want to check or not. It doesn’t suffice to see someone’s face to decide to skip, they have to read what the post is about.

Yep, that’s another side effect of AI gen videos. They’ll call whatever they don’t agree with fake now.

I’ve read the same thing but with Czech people a few weeks back. The bot saying that those millions of people will surely be missed but such a genius that can send man on Mars and fix humanity’s problems would be a bigger loss or something.

I guess it answers that no matter who or what you’re putting in the ring against the life of Musk.

Not only that but what most people call the left nowadays (socialists, communists and beyond) categorically refused to be called left until the 30s. They saw themselves as playing outside the Assemblée.

The left of the time were calling themselves the “Radicals”, and they were fine and dandy with capitalism, just liberal in their cultural beliefs, whereas the right was conservative/reactionary (in that they wanted to keep the status quo/go back to monarchy/more autoritarism). Socialists were fighting against both left and right.

The left and the socialists only allied themselves during the Front Populaire, a large union against fascism that was heavily on the rise in France (and Europe obviously) at the time, with a failed far right Coup attempt (la Cagoule) and a ton of high profile people having at the very least sympathies for Hitler (those were instrumental in France’s defeats and surrender at the beginning of the war by the way). The sentence “Plutôt Hitler que le Front Populaire” (better Hitler than the Popular Front) was used a lot, and is still widely remembered today.

It’s only after the Front Populaire that the socialists started to be bundled with the left in their and the common political discourse.

Funnily enough, today’s US democrats show a perfect example of why socialists didn’t want to be labeled in the same way as the “Radicals” at the time.

Happy to have you on board :)

As far as I know it’s not a crime to be nazi in France. It is a crime to deny the holocaust though.

Haha I didn’t even think of that, but indeed! I’m glad you like it, and thanks for the shared aha moment

I’m glad they added the emoji at the end, I wouldn’t have known what to feel about it otherwise