• kreskin@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Really USA, how does anyone pretend this is OK?

    We pretend a LOT of things are OK.

    • School shootings comes to mind.
    • laws around what women can do with their own bodies.
    • Sacrifice of the environment for industry, all in the name of “jobs”.
    • Starvation.
    • Politicians and presidents doing obviously illegal stuff and citizens unable to do anything about it.
    • American military killing with abandon all over the world.
    • Police brutality and systematic violations of our rights, with little to no accountability.
    • Our standards for clean food being less than everyone elses.
    • Religious supremacy being tolerated, even encouraged. (Fuck your moments of silence, fuck your thoughts and prayers, fuck your pledges of allegience too while we’re at it)
    • controlled media.
    • Book banning.
    • the “war” on drugs when other methods would have been much more effective.
    • whistleblower protections dismantled.
    • violence against protesters, and the existence of “protest zones” which disallows protests entirely in most areas.
    • continual threats of violence and domestic terrorism by the political right, never with any accountability.
    • oppression of anyone who says they are anti-fascist (antifa).
    • a political system complteely captured by bribery and foreign interests, with ~1% correlation to what citizens want. There is no representation in “representitive democracy” here. Its all a big joke. We’re barely even a “republic” anymore.

    And its not all republicans doing it-- although much more them than the dems-- although the dems are sliding really far rightward pretty quickly and its hard to see how it ever will be allowed to go back left.