Good point. Original Commenter (OC) is claiming a specificity after the fact when initially they were claiming a generality.

As a reader though, OC’s meaning came across in my first reading. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

The protests in Turkey are something I wish Americans would demonstrate. I agree.

I think the reality is that Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, they’re highly individualistic after decades of materialistic conditioning, and younger generations are captured by social media instead of voicing their woes in the streets.

But there is an appetite for action. Look at Bernie’s rallies. People want change, and polls reflect how people have little to no faith in the Democrats.

There needs to be an organizing principle if any political action should be effective. I’m finding the group 50501 to be that, and I try to share their plans on social media and with my friends & family. The next protest I plan on going to is on April 5th.

But you’re right. Americans are distracted with their toys and treats. Make no mistake though. If Trump’s decisions continue to tank the economy, and toys and treats become too expensive, even for the middle and lower class, I believe there will be more action.

What do you mean my that? Like, your own posts or those of others?

Not sure I’m seeing that on my side. Could be wrong tho

I fixed it. Thanks for dunking on my character rather than correcting me tho

My bad. Just ran through the numbers on ballotpedia the other day.

~32% of Americans voted for Trump. ~31% for Kamala, and the remaining ~37% voted third party or not at all.

Republicans are taking these actions, not Americans. And Democrats should have captured more of the 67% instead of going after the ~32%.

That being said, Americans are dumbbbb

Edit: 37% didn’t vote, not 67%. Thanks Lemming

Sync for Lemmy feels just like Reddit is Fun (RiF). So good

Buddy half of American voters voted for trump.

Incorrect. Only 63.7% of eligible voters turned out to vote in the 2024 US General Election.

That comes out to around 155 million voters, of which around 77 million voted for Trump or ~49.8%. Democrats on the other hand got around 75 million or ~48.3%. of the vote.

This comes out to ~31.7% of eligible voters voting Republican with ~30.8% voting Democrat.

Less than a third of Americans wanted Trump in office, not half. Let’s get the facts straight.

The reality is that the majority of American voters

~31.7% of Americans is not a majority, according to the American Heritage Dictionary.

are stupid, lazy, or both.

Have you considered that the actions of Republicans gerrymandering voting districts to hell and passing anti-voting laws and policies, that the actions of Democrats failing to represent their constituents by veering more and more Right, and that the pressures of capitalism, rising inflation, stagnating wages, and a lack of a national holiday where people take off work to go exercise their civic duties are reasons for why more people don’t go out and vote?

Noooooooo, that can’t be. Voters are stupid. Voters are racist. Voters are lazy. And it isn’t the system that has stripped away their material needs that is the problem.

Hell yeah!

I’d kill to see a Bernie/AOC rally outside of Chicago.

I went ahead and donated to their campaign, but if you’re in a similar boat, give this link a look:

https://berniesanders.com/oligarchy/

Cost of living differs across the world. While you may think that someone living in the US is “rich”, and that might be true compared to the rest of the world, within the US it may mean middle class or borderline lower class depending on the living context.

Say you make $60,000 USD per year as a single adult with no dependents. You’d do ok in Chicago, but would be scraping by in New York City.

Compare that same $60,000 to somewhere outside the US like Rio de Janiero in Brazil, and you’ll see that the you’ll make over 12 times the average living wage there. Conversely, if you took Brazil’s yearly living wage of ~$4,700 and applied it to the US, then you’d be below the average poverty line.

It does us no good to debate how good we have it vs you, or vice versa. (Almost) all of us live under capitalism, and although costs of living vary across the world, this isn’t an argument against UBI. The same issues the US experiences likely are also felt by citizens of many other countries, unless you live somewhere that has already introduced these sorts of safety nets.

Your point about “hard” labor (work done with body) vs “soft” labor (work done with mind and/or little body) doesn’t argue against this either. The economy is greatly stratified. We all don’t have to do the agriculture anymore, like when humans first transitioned from hunter-gatherers to farmers. There are many other things to do and things we can provide for each other, some good some bad. And this also isn’t to say that hard labor is worse than soft labor, or vice versa. They are mainly different kinds of experiences. No judgement need be applied, although many cultures tend to do so. This is one of many reasons why you see and have seen across history labor unions stick up for hard laborers against the “soft laboring” wealthy. This prejudice needs to be uprooted across the world imo.

I 100% agree with you that many formulations of “rich countries” depends on colonizing and extracting wealth from “poor countries”. That is not right. Every country should be able to produce for its own, with help offered in the form of imports/exports of goods & labor to every country. It is not fair that the Global South essentially funds the Global North.

Instead of pointing that out and blaming an entire hemisphere of people for that, we should instead be looking to those in our countries that wield power and make this system the way it is. A farmer in the US Is no different than a farmer in Brazil, at least in terms of the class struggle. It would all benefit us if we see that class divide everywhere in the world, and join together to try to defeat it.

How long does it take to get Mexican citizenship?

From raw vegan cookie dough? No :)

#govegan

Neil deGrasse Tyson and literally anything other than astrophysics

Let’s go!

I’m shocked, really

But Israel are the fascists in this scenario, yet they are doing the electricity curtailment…

Canada are the supposed “good guys”, and they are refusing electricity trading with the fascist Americans, not the other way around

Definitely Skateparkge on this one

Bro I got that too!!!

Yeah. I’m a vegan and I took issue with that. Sure we can do scientific studies to see how cats do on vegan diets, but imo that further propels cat domestication which vegans should be against at the very beginning. We already subject cats and other pets to environments that aren’t natural to their genetic history. And now vegans are introducing foods that aren’t natural, even though taking cats off streets can be seen as the more ethical thing to do, given the alternatives.

Lots of nuance here, but it’s not fair to the cats. Any time vegans think for themselves instead of the real victims of animal slavery, they undermine their entire cause.

If politics includes the realm of persuading enough people and institutions to adopt or forget laws and standards, however moral of immoral they are, then rights of any kind are political.

Rights aren’t given in society for nothing. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights were created following WWII in which we saw the greatest political conflicts in the modern, technological age. Civil rights, at least in the US, have taken many acts as well as background political pressure to get to where we are today, and this institutionalizing of equal rights among American citizens only started after the US Civil War, the only civil war that country had ever experienced at that point.

As an American, fuck the USA.