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Trump gets some random asshole hoping a train with a pee-shooter to try and Rambo the Rose Garden every six months or so.
We've had city-wide marches, election waves favoring anti-Trump candidates, and open riots in defiance of ICE incursions.
Military enlistment is hitting lows not seen since the depths of the Iraq War and moral is so low in the US Navy that people are sabotaging their own boats (ie, the "laundry fire" that took the state-of-the-art $18B USS Gerald Ford out of commission).
We've seen strike waves in Midwestern states. We've seen mass protests against data centers and detention centers. We've seen a fresh new wave of alt-media journalists getting propped up by millions of people who are desperate for reliable and useful information. We've seen an Arab Socialist take over the Mayorship of the wealthiest city in the country.
Americans are clearly doing shit.
But we've also seen a Tech Oligarch rampage. Mass evictions. Mass arrests. Mass firings. Tens of thousands of unemployed gooners joining the most brutal and repressive state police agencies. We've seen white nationalists parading around downtown districts. We've seen Zionist mobs lead by war criminals parade down Lower Manhattan with the support of both major parties. Scammers are conning and looting their neighbors at unprecedented rates. People are pickling their brains on social media, radicalizing, and shooting up neighborhoods. The LGBTQ community is at once congealing into a kind of activism we haven't seen since the 1970s and suffering wave after wave of criminal prosecution and vigilante assault.
Americans are going abroad to fight as mercenaries in foreign wars and going abroad to flee the fascism at home. Americans are building up mutual aid groups in their own backyard and narcing on those aid groups to the cops in order to tear them down. Americans are rallying around the Cross and the Flag, fully intent on doing a pogrom against the infidels. And Americans are rallying around the Cross and the Flag, fully intent on defending liberty, overthrowing the corrupt oligarchy, and returning to civil governance.
Americans are doing a lot of shit. We're at each others' throats. We are holding each other's hands. But this idea that nothing is happening is built on the false narrative that liberals only lose when they're apathetic, rather than when they're getting overpowered.
Ya know what..for the first time in a long time, I've got a little hope for our country after reading this. It's easy to lose sight of everything that's been happening when seemingly no meaningful change has been made.
I've had this thought for a while anytime the "why isn't America doing anything" thought comes up and I think it's because the country is SO large and comprised of SO many states and governments and whatnot that it makes it difficult to see when change is actually happening on the small scale. It's like a pebble being thrown into a lake when we expect it to be a boulder, not realizing that there's thousands of pebbles being thrown.
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Can I link to this or, if you don’t want the comment traffic, make a copypasta of it?
Go for it. Either way is good