What weird image of us do you have that you think we have good jobs, nice houses, and access to education?
60% of us live paycheck to paycheck, sometimes while working more than 1 full time job.
Education is -$50k at base. A basic shitty (prone to mold and problems in a few years) new build house or nice old house in need of work (like a new $20k roof) costs on average a half a million. Rent is $2-3k/mo. And healthcare can bankrupt you.
We have no good mass transit outside of major cities and vehicles now cost $30k to start.
Minimum wage is still $7.50.
As such most people came into this regime hanging by a thread, already fearful for their capacity to provide for themselves or their kids.
All the more reason to fight for a better future, doncha think?
They’re pushing the buttons for revolution, I hope for the best for the American people, against the tyranny of their leaders. The precipice of the future is laid bare on the stage, it’s time for the people to wake up and wrestle their lives back from the greediest motherfuckers we’ve ever witnessed.
Part by design, but also, hard to admit that we already lived through the good times, and that we have to fight to have them again.
And yes, I’m one of those anxious people waxing poetic, I just hope my words are encouragement to someone who needs it, in the mean time just try to be a good member of your community, that’s all any one of us can do, and it does really help at the end of the day.
Not many people are even in a good position to be an effective white knight, and the ones that are have spent their whole life trying to be in those places and don’t want to jeopardize it.
Like, I’m Canadian, and not near the border, best I can do for the most part is keep apprised, encourage, and engage with my local community.
I encountered an exchange a year or so ago where someone was encouraged to riot. They gave a very definitive, honest reply: “I don’t know how.”
Like it or not, like that whole Fight Club scene about how difficult it is to start a fight, I think the statement is middle of the bell curve defining. Only now, we have a younger generation crippled by internal shit, lack of unmoderated interaction experience, unable to even pick up the phone, so they’re not going to go outside to where people are. Just sit at home and hope someone else takes care of it.
General strike is likely the way. Less interactive. But it would take bank/mortgage and landlord support to not break the people doing it. An all in general strike.
What weird image of us do you have that you think we have good jobs, nice houses, and access to education?
60% of us live paycheck to paycheck, sometimes while working more than 1 full time job.
Education is -$50k at base. A basic shitty (prone to mold and problems in a few years) new build house or nice old house in need of work (like a new $20k roof) costs on average a half a million. Rent is $2-3k/mo. And healthcare can bankrupt you.
We have no good mass transit outside of major cities and vehicles now cost $30k to start.
Minimum wage is still $7.50.
As such most people came into this regime hanging by a thread, already fearful for their capacity to provide for themselves or their kids.
All the more reason to fight for a better future, doncha think?
They’re pushing the buttons for revolution, I hope for the best for the American people, against the tyranny of their leaders. The precipice of the future is laid bare on the stage, it’s time for the people to wake up and wrestle their lives back from the greediest motherfuckers we’ve ever witnessed.
I don’t disagree. Strangely we have an entire generation of self crippled young people who cower behind screens and wax poetic about personal anxiety.
Part by design, but also, hard to admit that we already lived through the good times, and that we have to fight to have them again.
And yes, I’m one of those anxious people waxing poetic, I just hope my words are encouragement to someone who needs it, in the mean time just try to be a good member of your community, that’s all any one of us can do, and it does really help at the end of the day.
Therein is the main problem. Everyone expects someone else to ride in to the rescue. And there is no white knight.
Not many people are even in a good position to be an effective white knight, and the ones that are have spent their whole life trying to be in those places and don’t want to jeopardize it.
Like, I’m Canadian, and not near the border, best I can do for the most part is keep apprised, encourage, and engage with my local community.
I encountered an exchange a year or so ago where someone was encouraged to riot. They gave a very definitive, honest reply: “I don’t know how.”
Like it or not, like that whole Fight Club scene about how difficult it is to start a fight, I think the statement is middle of the bell curve defining. Only now, we have a younger generation crippled by internal shit, lack of unmoderated interaction experience, unable to even pick up the phone, so they’re not going to go outside to where people are. Just sit at home and hope someone else takes care of it.
General strike is likely the way. Less interactive. But it would take bank/mortgage and landlord support to not break the people doing it. An all in general strike.
Then you have nothing to lose. Boo hoo hoo.
Cowards. Fucking fight already.
So start rioting.
Did you think the rest of us got our rights because the powers that be were especially pleased with the way we fellated them that morning?