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I'd like to thank everyone for my most upvoted post on lemmy ever. Not only have you upvoted it to the top for like 2 days you commented the shit out of it. I'd like to take this opportunity to say fuck the mods of this instance. This was my second post coming off a 30 day ban and I want to say these fucking mods have been nothing but bitches. I've never been more attacked on any other instance, subreddit, forum, etc. then I have been in this fucking instance. Not only have I been attacked I've been told my memes arent memey enough again and again.

I'll be honest, I do not know how to make a meme but I keep posting just to piss in these mods cheerios.

Thanks lemmy.world/politicalmemes for being the worst community I've ever been a part of.

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[–] Punchshark@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 hour ago

Murica is drunk off fast food and too weak to fight their tyrannical government

[–] donaldjmusk@hilariouschaos.com 0 points 16 minutes ago (1 children)

LMAO all the people in this thread crying about how there is gonna be a "revolution."

There ain't gonna be a revolution. You all won't do shit. Lemmy posters make way too much money to do anything other than talk about revolution.

Nothing is going to change. lol

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 1 points 8 minutes ago

Your hubris tells a different story than you think it does.

[–] Tillman@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

We have cheap debt. It delays things anywhere between 3 months to 100 years.

[–] Lootboblin@lemmy.world 26 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Finnish hockey reporter went to see 4 Nations tournament in NA and a cab driver in Boston started to talk about politics to him when he heard that he is from Europe. The driver told that Ukraine shouldnt have started the war and told that Trump will end the war. The Finnish reporter told him that actually Russia started the war and the driver didnt believe him. Cab driver also asked is Finland a NATO member. Yes. ”How did Russia respond?” ”We didn’t ask them”. The reporter questioned americans ability to double check the ”news” that are told to them. He said that driving in that cab was like listening to Fox News or Trump speaking himself.

Revolt? when the country is full of these ”cab drivers”.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Cab driver also asked is Finland a NATO member. Yes. ”How did Russia respond?” ”We didn’t ask them”.

I didn't even know Finland joined NATO.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Them and Sweden. Sweden used to be kinda ambivalent about the whole thing cause they have SAAB

[–] Muaddib@sopuli.xyz 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

They live in a culture of cowardice. They think violence is a shameful thing. They're taught passivity from birth. Instead of learning to fight honourably, they're taught not to fight at all. Not to yell. Not to argue. Not to protest. Not to kill. It's the morality underpinning their society. It's a mind prison that makes them into obedient servants to the master class.

[–] turnitoffandonagain@infosec.pub 8 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Id argue it's an entirely different issue. Our country has no problem with violence, the numbers make that abundantly clear. I feel the issue more so stems from a lot of people here being relatively indifferent to things that don't directly affect them. Many, if not most Americans are rabidly individualistic, they care about themselves, and a very small circle around them with everything outside that small circle being the "others" those others being the ones they blame for all their issues. As long as nothing negatively impacts their small circle they care about, they don't give a shit.

That individualism in a lot of places itself stems from how rural and spread out a majority of the country is. Shit, even for me to go join a protest at the Capitol of just my state is a 3 hour drive each direction, and I don't even live in one of the bigger states. This country is so spread out in many areas that it's hard for many to care, let alone actually get involved if they do care.

You mix that individualism with a lot of really, incredibly stupid people, im talking half of the country can only read at a 6th grade level or less, and the fact that a large swath of people are living paycheck to paycheck and literally don't have the time or resources to get out and protest unless they'd like to be homeless without Healthcare, and this is the result you get. There have been tons of protests, quite a few of which have gathered some pretty good traction, even if its not shown in the media, but getting something going en masse in this country is nearly impossible.

[–] Muaddib@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

I submit the price of eggs as evidence that if it were about self interest, there'd be a communist revolution tomorrow.

[–] turnitoffandonagain@infosec.pub 1 points 1 hour ago

I see it as less self interest, and more self idolization. As much as people here complain about "being broke" nowhere in the world do people on average have more expendable income than in the US. The price of eggs, or much of anything else for that matter, outside of a hyperinflation scenario, is more of a mild inconvenience to most people here than anything else. Sure, people might have to cut back a little elsewhere and do something horrible like skip a yearly phone upgrade to the newest $1500 phone they don't need, but they'll be fine.

Why i see it as self idolization rather than self interest is because what i see is moreso people just attempting to fellate their own ego, with a lot of people in this country, especially in more rural, conservative areas like I'm in, are people that are broke for reasons that are all but entirely their fault, but they don't want to blame themselves, trump and Republicans give them someone else to point the finger at, and they roll with it because in their tiny, buttery smooth little brains, to them if there's someone else to blame, and we fix that, then their lives will get better without them having to change what they're doing, and they like that more than putting the fault where it belongs, on themselves and actually fixing some of their own problems. In their heads, they'd be doing great if it weren't for x, y, z, that's completely out of their control, because they're doing a great job, its "those other people" over there causing all the issues, so it's "we need to stop those people so my life will get better without me having to do anything, because i'm obviously not doing anything wrong"

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Rabid self interest, and collectivism are kinda mutually exclusive.....

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[–] Quadhammer@lemmy.world 14 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Any resistance we do have gets met with "well aktchually" its not doing enough, its too little too late, where was this when? Maybe stfu and pick up a pitchfork mf

[–] AshMan85@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago

Everyone is an armchair general these days

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

These are the kind of people that can't even run into each others without going ballistic over a simple greeting and you expect them to enact a revolt LMAO 🤣

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 78 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

Because half of Americans have no idea what's going on, a quarter of them support the coup, and out of the remaining quarter, 99% are burnt out wage slaves that are just one missed shift away from losing everything. We literally can't do anything because we are minority; just rats trapped in a maze.

[–] yngmnwntr@lemmy.ml 40 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

Four out of three Americans don't understand fractions.

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[–] vonbaronhans@midwest.social 21 points 19 hours ago

That is unfortunately the truth of it.

I'm one of the burned out wage slaves. I like my job, at least, but I'm struggling just to keep my life together, let alone society.

I know that's true for almost anyone who would be part of a resistance, but the learned helplessness is real.

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