If you can hear me in your fever dream, please wake up
Median income doesn’t mean shit when median wealth is barely keeping up with the low end of developed countries. Median US wealth is closer to Estonia or Kuwait than Canada or the UK.
“Stupid shit people make up online”. My brother in christ your own source shows less than 25% gun ownership. That lines up exactly with what I’m saying. What are you smoking?
Masterful deflection of the questions
Sure, let me just take a look at the board of directors… Gonna take a look at Reggie Van Lee, right at the top… Check open secrets on his consulting firm aaaand:
National Republican Congressional Cmte $71k, 2024
Hmmmmm… Well at least theres also thousands of dollars going to establishment Dems earlier on.
But that’s just a board member. They’ll be absolved by the clients listed in their testimonials. Surely it’s the good guys filling their bank accounts?
Southwest Airlines: Top contributions go to Trump (by a mile), Susan Collins, Ted Cruz, the RNC etc…
Estée Lauder: Wow! I’m seeing top contributions totaling $3 million+ to the RNC, Keystone Renewal PAC, Senate leadership fund, and 3-4 other sketchy conservative funds.
NFU Mutual: One of the top 5% groups for spend. $1 mil in contribution and even more in lobbying in 2024, a sea of red support…
Mercedes Benz: The same one slobbering over Trump’s tariffs? 😂
Enterprise Mobility: 2/3 of their PAC donations end up in Republican coffers…
I’ll give them credit, they show a lot of non-profits and schools-for-poor-orphans to signal how woke they are, but those clients aren’t the whales that keep the lights on. You think they’re tearing up those big checks when push comes to shove?
As Carlin once said, it’s a big club and we ain’t in it.
What in the wet fuck?.. Are you having a fever dream about some alternate reality USA?
Wealth disparity in the USA is higher than basically any country in history. The top 10 people or so have more wealth than the bottom 50%. There are plenty of guns in the USA but the vast majority of people don’t ever come close to owning a gun; the average gun owner has something like 7.5 guns. If you’re looking at the split between pro/anti-fascist demographics the weapon gap is massive.
So yes, the average American is dirt poor and unarmed. Come up with a different way to pin all of your trouble on foreigners.
Don’t ask who signs their paychecks, what other media outlets they own and what PACs they contribute to
Waaaah Waaaah Waaaah
You’re free to go march down to your local government office and demand that every US plutocrat’s assets be siezed today. Are you doing that? I’m going to play by your rules and assume no because I didn’t see a headline. I really doubt you “know what you’d do” if you can’t even do that much tough guy
They can impeach or Amendment 25 him out right now
This mindset that the “American defeatist voter” is the issue is so blatantly out of touch with the USA’s reality that it’s exactly what other US commenters are trying to point out. That part of the game has been over for a while. Federal representatives quite literally shut the door, leave the assembly or move away when they’re pressured. They don’t need your vote any more, their job is to rubber stamp whatever happens; the plutocrats pay them well enough to insulate them from repercussions.
There’s no political leverage to oust them or anyone else in the fed. If you want them out the answer is adventurism and there’s no citizenship requirement for that, buy yourself a plane ticket if you think that urgency is required.
Knowing that, the American citizen’s pressing concern is resistance, community safety and solidarity. Regardless of how scary things are for the rest of the world, we’re stuck in the eye of the hurricane for the foreseeable future. Maybe the post-Trump fascist dictator will be less aggressive to your country but we’ll be under the same boot. Our goals are framed in the longterm view by necessity.
Yes, and that’s happening in states with a federal presence. Look at the resistance in Minnesota or Chicago or LA or the DC area for example. But each state being their own independent polity means that what happens in Minnesota is not under the purview of any other government office until you get to Congress. I could riot at my state Capitol for eternity and that doesn’t change their power or jurisdiction, they can’t control Minnesota.
If most Americans wanted to resist the fed their best tangible option would be… A post office maybe? For all the glitz and bombast of ICE and other DHS jack boots there are probably sub 10k agents on the ground. If all 340 million Americans decided to oust the fed there are only about 8500 buildings to burn down nation wide, and most of those concentrated in a few specific states.
So unless you’re talking about balkanization and secession via inter-state compacts, there isn’t a ton of room for the headline-grabbing resistance that people want to see. And if it got to that point, every major US city would be rioting and ungovernable anyway.
Where did the original commenter say they weren’t doing these things? Or are you just not satisfied unless every random person on the internet is declaring they’re committing suicide by cop?
Where do you live, should I make assumptions about you? Are you out on the street right now calling for sanctions on US plutocrats? Are you in the USA and not seeing this networking happen on the ground? If so, where in particular and what are you doing about it? Otherwise, what conditions are making your networking successful and how can we replicate those? Because I promise your imagined passivity is not universal…
B-b-but that’s not as edgy 😟
It’s really crucial to take jabs at people living a literal hellish nightmare because there’s no other way we can get our high minded, avant-garde social commentary across! 😭
Woah, deja vu! I’m pretty sure I’ve heard this exact same response from shitbag US conservatives
Then why is the butt of this joke not the corrupt healthcare system or the CIA distributing drugs as a power play or any other number of angles? If they wanted any depth to the joke beyond “haha addicts” there are dozens of better ways to deliver it.
Edit: on top of that, fent addiction isn’t even uniquely American. This clip could just as easily be mocking the people I’ve seen slumped around Toronto.
You are hallucinating a lot of depth that doesn’t exist. The butt of the joke is the crippling addiction of the most vulnerable people in American society.
As a rule of thumb: if the joke wouldn’t bother the corrupt pedophile cabal currently plundering half the world (or their volunteer jack boots) then you’re punching the wrong way. If this was about rich kids on coke or a billionaire in a k-hole it would be an entirely different joke
Grade school level historical analysis
Dude is so high on tankie juice that he’s hallucinating arguments
If ONLY there were SOME WAY to DEICE pavement and THWART these PAGAN RIOTERS
If the protests were widespread enough it’s not impossible to approach those kinds of numbers. That’s ~20 cities of 600 deaths spread over 2+ weeks. Other modern protest crackdowns have also been more about asserting power in full view of the world. This is a regime fully blocking media accountability while potentially fighting for its life.
The Nazis were also doing that with mostly bolt action rifles and some tanks and inaccurate artillery, mainly benefitting from shooting 430,000 people in a concentrated ghetto. Drones and modern weapons are much more deadly and are being deployed against cities with populations in the millions.
I’ll be interested to see if China turns strongly to immigration to shore up the missing population, though I highly doubt it. Either way, it’s going to be ugly
Nah man you don’t get it, if people would just give the Democrats Hamas all their votes Critical Support we would beat the Fascists. This time is way different than the last 40 tries
Nothing challenged my perspective here. I know people suffering and dying from this stuff, I have friends who work with addicts daily. I’m here to advocate for the people in my community who are suffering more than any of the people in these videos (or any of us commenting here) through no fault of their own. Their lives are being ruined by the same fascists pushing this war-hawk imperialist shit.
We have stop this jingoistic-tribalist-slop. Would you like to see a funny trend where people laugh about being mutilated Palestinians for a 5 second joke on Isreal?