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I know the USA is collapsing before my eyes but... (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/FreeParking@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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I got to see Luigi take the first shot stand up to a broken system. I got to see Renee Good teach us what it means to be good. I got to see Alex Pretti rage against the machine.

These arent the only stories but they are stories of my people. They are the futures folk heros.

And thats not to say others didnt come before... Martins... and Malcoms... who knows who will be next to stand up to only get chopped down. Hopefully its all of us, resoundingly, all together, because they cant keep us all.

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[–] 3 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

I hope you're right, but I'm not so certain. Maybe I've seen too many dystopian depictions, but the fact they've got all the money, tech (including our forthcoming robot overlords), and roughly 40% (+/-10%, depending upon the moment) of the population willingly manipulated enough to back them to their own bitter end... It all just seems destined to come to a massively destructive end. So much needless pain and destruction all because the worst instincts of humanity cannot be satisfied nor mollified once they are ingrained in people's ways of thinking.

I'm glad some have hope. I've obviously lost mine over the decades of helplessly watching this bullshit unfold as history repeats itself yet again. We are still animals deep down, and it seems that's all the worst of us will ever allow us to be.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    all the money

    Money is fake. It's literally points. The difference betwern usd btc eddies and the shit in a box of hellokitty™monopoly™ is scale. It's literally the same shit.

    all the tech

    The technology... It's all guns, and network based. Theirs at least. They mostly don't know how to operate it. They can't even drive in rough weather. It can be turned off, if you want to. If enough of us want to. Take your god damn ring doorbells down, and you will noticably impact their capacity in your neighborhood.

    This is the same state, the same apparatus, that lost in afghanistan. Finally admitted it a couple years ago. Do you have less resources than some illiterate starving afghan teenagers? Because they killed these fuckers. Bled them dry in the mountains. Any mountains near you? I got tons.

    And, you know what i find in those mountains? I find the fuckers who built all that tech. Literally that's where the raytheon engineers live.

    will always be

    No. Bullshit. Why 50%? Why those? What makes them that way? These aren't stats in a video game, hard coded into the engine, if ten people are born five of them aren't pre sorted into identity siloes based on what difficulty setting you picked. These are real material apes. A fucking wizard didn't make them like this. That means they can change.

    Will they gleefully snitch on you and charge naked into the killing fields as they praise the gpod ol' red white and blue, dragging your loved ones along or trampling them in the stampede? Probably¹. But they dont have to. It could be otherwise.

    Current conditions are not eternal. There's no such thing as eternal. Fuck off with that bullshit.

    No, you don't get to live the life you wanted. That sucks. Take that out on them. Find a nazi and take your anger out on it until it's a kind of paste.

    ¹they are americans. But they don't have to stay that way.

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