We’ve been making it better for the last 250 years. There have been setbacks and regressions, but the overall arch has been progress. If we make it through this backslide we can still continue improving.

I'm trying man. I vote, I volunteer, I protest, I work my ass off to educate myself and others around me. I'm careful about how I spend my time, attention and money and support people and causes I see as useful. I train, practice and prepare for if and when things get violent. I work with others in my community to make myself and those around me more resilient. I see hateful signs and stickers and I take them down and actively confront hateful dipshits around me.

So what do you suggest I do more? And would you do that yourself?

I wish I knew how and what to do. Born into a society with unions rapidly declining in the 80s and 90s. That is where a lot of front end action starts to take place, and the U.S. doesn't have nearly the same union presence it did 40-50 years ago. It's a 2 party system, and both parties suck. The status quo here has been dismantling people's collective ability to organize, for generations at this point. Whether or not anyone will admit it, they are scared and subjected to enough propaganda on a daily basis to be coerced into being anti-union.

The brick by brick wall built between citizens and their own well being is astonishing. 9/11 was middle school for me so a lot of the bricks were observed in my lifetime.

The most well organized militias happen to be aligned with the current administration, which is baffling for any number of reasons, but not trying to deep dive that.

I think it would take a large group of our politicians to admit we got way off track, issue formal aplogies to friends, neighbors, and allies. Then request formal 3rd party help. At this point, short of that happening I truly do believe the US will implode on itself within the next 50 years.

Executive action needs to be removed or reworked entirely. Term limits across all governing bodies, Supreme Court, senate, house, all of them need an expiration date and term limits. For the judicial I would go as far as to say they are selected at random from pools of high level judges. What we have now is just a collective of leeches.

Sorry but doing anything about it would be "barbaric" according to people like you.

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You think it's a clock and is only real after 60 years?

Progress is a constant thing. It's pushing a cart up hill. If youre not further up the hill every step, it's not progress.

60 years, 60 months, 60 days, 60 minutes...

The length of time doesn't matter, just that progress happens.

Every well adjusted person should have a shit ton of regrets, because they keep progressing as a human and find prior behavior unacceptable. That's the same for a nation.

Do you legitimately not understand that?

Not to mention thats everything thats public information. You go behind the scenes and you’re begging to lose all hope and meaning.

There's enough pedos in politics without bringing drake into this...

This is a really odd argument that I can't understand, there is a categorical difference between an official broadcast of a scheduled execution and the video from a police body camera being released following the police killing someone. I don't understand how you can say they are the same thing, whether the cop remembers in the moment they have a camera on is irrelevant. Capturing an incident as part of routine recording and then releasing that video after the fact is not at all like scheduling an execution and broadcasting it live for the world to watch.

Police body cameras don't stream. It is a closed system.

He was active duty military that opened fire on other active duty military on a military base...

Not that the last name is common with a fucking streamer

Hasan Piker seems to me to be a generational talent

No, he was the nepo nephew of The Young Turks founder...

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

A media organization literally named after people who overthrew their government to commit a genocide....

His uncle put him on air, then bankrolled him into the early days of twitch.

He is not grassroots, he did not got popular because of talent or political opinions.

He is an outrage machine and rather than complain about literal fascists running our country and supporting genocides worldwide, he uses his platform to make people not want to vote for the literal only option in our political system

At best he's a narcissist that just wants views, at worst he's intentionally trying to prevent progress.

Fucking think for yourself and stop repeating twitch streamers.

Iran is a country where the spice doesn't flow to us. We are bombing them, not for any human rights issues, but for their oil.