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What do you do when people don't care? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 day ago by mjsaber@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'm dumbstruck as to what to do. The US is building literal concentration camps, and none of my co-workers care at all.

In fairness, I work in healthcare with an almost exclusively cishet white population who are financially well off.

Many of them espouse to be Christians, and no one cares at all that the American government is following the exact playbook from Nazi Germany.

What do you do? How do you make people care before it's too late?

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[–] index@sh.itjust.works -3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (4 children)

To help you find an answer i'll return you the same question: why did you not care about US building concentration camps and following the fascist playbook until now?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indictment_and_arrest_of_Julian_Assange

[–] jmj88@lemm.ee 1 points 4 hours ago

They’ve been doing this shit for decades. Why all the sudden are you in such a frenzy?

[–] Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

The US has always crossed lines when it comes to treatment of prisoners, but this is different and you know it. Traditionally the US has always been an oligarchy masquerading as a democracy in order to claim legitimacy. Now in under two weeks the Trusk regime has completely restructured everything in an effort to turn all instructions into a manifestation of their will. Mark my words, if you don't see the difference now, you will soon.

[–] index@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 hours ago

Now it's even worst ok but we are discussing why people don't care and my suggestion to find an answer is to think about why you didn't care in the past when it was bad already.

[–] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Do you know that they didn't?

[–] index@sh.itjust.works -2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

OP seem to be lamenting only about the "latest" US government policies.

[–] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 4 points 9 hours ago

Not sure if youre gonna get blasted when everyone else gets on later, but you're correct. The US has always done shit like this. Obama and Biden spoiled these people lol.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

What a fucking stupid, useless reply.

[–] index@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

less stupid than the one you just made