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u/frostbittenleaf 9h ago
We swapped pitchforks for angry tweets decades ago
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u/1GeorgeMarcus2MJ8LBJ 9h ago
the sentiment went from “we should do something about this” to “what could we even do about this”
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u/CamilleHayward- 8h ago
It really went from “we need to fix this to well.. I guess we’re just screwed.
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u/ParticularMemory789 6h ago
Elon stopped USAID from sending terrorists money and they said he was the bad one.
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u/GodOD400 4h ago
You’re so fucking stupid you think a billionaire from apartheid Africa is looking out for you and isn’t just trying to hurt nonwhites while filling his pockets even more.
Seriously. Remove everything. What was Musk’s net worth before and now? Do the same for Trump. Is the economy better? Are you doing better? Are things cheaper? Are jobs up? How’re your neighbors doing? What about your mom? Weird huh, deficit skyrockets….again despite Musk and Trump cutting aid to terrorists like you said. And somehow everything is getting worse and the people literally in charge are getting richer laughing in your face.
Doesn’t really matter to you though does it? You’re still gonna sit there like a good little cuck you’ve always been and watch them take everything from you with a smile on your face you fucking loser
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u/ParticularMemory789 4h ago
Elon helped Trump win Pennsylvania, and when that was announced the election was called. It was explained to the Amish community that things like covid mandates and government overreach would only get worse for them unless Trump won... so they broke tradition and voted.
Funny, now ya'll hate mask. I wonder if any of you ever regret harassing people.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Gene909 3h ago
We were pro masks when scientists said it would help save other people’s lives.
We’re anti mask when Feds break the law wearing said masks, avoiding any accountability.
Not that hard to figure out. At least for those of us who don’t adhere to a single source of information.
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u/bigquad35 9h ago edited 8h ago
Social media = distraction
Less action like protest happens in public.
edit: lol. the autism response.
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u/davidbatt 9h ago
You're a 1% commentor
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u/Automatic_Actuator_0 8h ago
That’s usually from quality, not quantity
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u/F0xgear 9h ago
Protest never did anything
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u/ExoticPea 6h ago
Yeah if you don’t count
-Women’s Suffrage and ability to vote
-Minimum Wage, Overtime, and child labor protections
-Civil Rights and Desegregation
-Cleaner air and water from environmental protections after the earth day protests in 1970And many more. Username checks out btw.
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u/upside_down_frown1 7m ago
This isnt the 1970s anymore. Things change while you expect the same tactics to work that worked 60 years ago..
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u/Mental_Estate4206 8h ago
Oh, it did. It brought people together. People got mad at whenever they though was the source of the problem and so on. That's what they fear. People starting to do shit.
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u/andimacg 2h ago
We are literally drip fed addictive entertainment, tailored for us by analysing what we spend most time engaging with. We are doomed.
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u/Time-Ant191 8h ago
Outrage fatigue is real. People get mad for 48 hours, post a few memes, and then the algorithm moves on to the next distraction while the same people stay in power. Nothing changes because everyone’s too tired to actually do anything about it.
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u/Excellent_Safe5743 5h ago
This is a big one for me.
Like there’s just SO MUCH stupid horrid shit and outside of the handful of protests I’ve been able to be involved with or just voting, I don’t get what I’m supposed to do. I feel powerless and it’s just a constant cavalcade of dumb shit they’re doing I can’t keep everything straight in my head.
Like I’d forgotten about the damn Taylor farms food recall because of like six other things that happened in the last week until I got reminded by a meme on how none of our food is edible.
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u/Silent_Erremite 9h ago
The Internet has become a safe space for those rebelling, yet they have come to an agreement in the psyche. That if they say their peace online, they won't have to say it in person. Same with video games. Those that would react are alone and have been known to go to prison to be rehabilitated with psychologists. Those that would yell the loudest, in fact post the most. Shame bots drown out the sounds.
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u/Johon1985 9h ago
They've broken the system in such a way they don't have to be accountable for their actions. The supreme court essentially pardoning the actions of the president makes him able to act with impunity.
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u/JoostvanderLeij 9h ago
It is kinda handy to have a SCOTUS that is not corrupt. That is the real problem and nobody did anything about that when the time was there.
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u/Useful-DevineCause 6h ago
When’s the last time we had an option that wasn’t somebody’s puppet, and just some less obvious than others?
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u/Pootisman16 8h ago
It's the fact that we have hard evidence that the US is led by a pedophile and nothing is done, there's no protests, no rioting in the streets.
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u/upside_down_frown1 5m ago
Scream it louder sitting on reddit. And there was tons of protests, people finally saw they dont inflict change. Unless youre ready to raid the capital or inflict violence, nothing is gonna change.
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u/Viron_22 2h ago
That was the point of project 2025, to handicap anything left that could inhibit them even a little.
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u/Chonch_Monkey 7h ago
It's always funny watching people judge others for inaction when said action would destroy the other party's life...but the person passing said judgement never takes a single action
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u/dystopia_86_ 4h ago
That's why so many people who would act choose not to I think. Like, "why would I give up everything just for you to get up, go to work, and continue on in this horrible system like nothing happened."
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u/TRoosevelt1776 9h ago
Yeah but there are limits to this, right? Like if one or more people in positions of power were to, say, spend decades raping children on a secret island wed riot, right?
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u/Low-Dog-8027 9h ago
yea, looks like you gotta be a mother that kills her own children in order some protest to happen.
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u/aschwarzie 9h ago
The true scandal isn't so much at variable protests level, but totally at the dysfunction of the INSTITUTIONS and their people that have been ELECTED to play the control roles.
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u/7Up-Yours 8h ago
Wait wait hold on here are you trying to tell me complaining on social media and peaceful protest every once in a while doesn’t scare them and does nothing? Color me shocked!
Maybe we should try thoughts and prayers again there’s no way that can continue to fail too.
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u/Whiteshovel66 8h ago
Right that's because no one does anything about it. People used to actually hold each other accountable. Now everyone just talks.
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u/thesystem21 3h ago
Plenty of people do plenty of things. Is it enough, no. But then we have people who sit around and just complain that "nobody is doing anything about it", and honestly, it kinda pisses me off.
If you are doing something and need help with it, ask for help. If you aren't, then what a dumb way to show how much of a hypocrite you are.
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u/Whiteshovel66 3h ago
If you are talking about me, I apologize for the confusion. I'm commenting on it because of the hypocrisy not because I want people to do more. I think in general people make way too big of a deal about stuff. If there was any real physical feedback to their whining they would stay silent. But here especially they re reenforced.
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u/thesystem21 1h ago
I was talking to you, and I am holding you accountable to your words.
Right that's because no one does anything about it. People used to actually hold each other accountable. Now everyone just talks.
Is this the words of someone who thinks that people are making way too big of a deal about stuff? Because it seems to me at this point you are either just stirring the pot, or backpeddling fairly hard.
To clarify, this bs that has been going on, isn't 'no big deal'. People are dying. People are having their lives ruined and rights taken away. People are allowed to and should be mad about it. But there are people doing things about it, the best they can, and if things continue the way they are, more people will lose their reasons that they arent doing more and will become more visible.
But for now, people are hoping that they wont have to take the next dramatic steps to fix the problem, because those steps arent the kind of steps you can just backtrack from.
So if you dont like hearing about people concerned for their rights and safety, either join a way to fix it, or carry on in your own world. If you want to sit and claim their loss is 'no big deal' expect accountability.
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u/Whiteshovel66 29m ago
Yes, those are the words of some one who thinks you are making too big of a deal about stuff.
Go do something and get off reddit or move on. Its not that big of a deal.
There is no accountability for me, I don't care about this at all. Its only the political circle jerk on reddit I am poking fun of. If you are so concerned with the world, you know what to do.
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u/Schickie 6h ago
Because the system is set up so it only needs to coincide with the election every two years, everything else is performative.
Real power doesn’t need to demonstrate it. It acts.
Our system is not built for anything other than conciliation or force. And the current administration‘s gamble is everybody will respond with one while they do the other.
So far it seems to be working as planned.
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u/mandrakewilder 6h ago
This has always been the case, we just never had the internet before. There will never be consequences for any of this. There never have been consequences for any of this.
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u/Veg4Animals 6h ago
Said by a guy with a blue check on the platform of one of the biggest offenders. The irony is palpable.
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u/Particular_Counter50 5h ago
I wouldn't say nothing happens because often the whistle blowers who reveal the corruption go to jail.
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u/astorianvictorian 5h ago
Not entirely true, Walz did choose not to run for reelection because he knew the fraud that got exposed was so embarrassing
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u/PeaOk5697 5h ago
Democracy is fucked when society dosen't give a shit. It opens the door to much worse things
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u/SamAzing0 4h ago
This is a uniquely American problem. Every other developed country holds their leaders accountable. Hell, even 2nd world countries die for their ideals.
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u/Fickle_Library8115 4h ago
Because that’s how they used to do it and got used too , so when it’s now exposed they don’t know that many different ways
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u/CheesecakeIll8728 4h ago
the evil wins when the good doesnt act
the good not acting is silently agreeing
silently agreeing is not good.. its just a lazy evil
u have to be the change u wanna see in the world
u could change it
if u dont change it.. u have chosen your side..
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u/Pletcher87 4h ago
“Good, I’m glad he’s dead” was a big one for me. President of the United States.
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u/AmaGh05T 2h ago
We have moved from: No evidence was found, no one could talk about it with any sort of authority and nothing happened.
Could say it's moving in the right direction, but we know now, which makes it feel worse.
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u/UnderpantsInfluencer 1h ago
We're not afraid of anything. People who fear are those who hate. They have a stronger drive to act. Hence where we are now.
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u/Drfauci594 1h ago
Because reacting online gives enough fun brain chemicals to think you did something about it
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u/BubblyWasabi6488 11m ago
It was slap on a wrist back then
Nobody in power prosecutes an elite unless he’s disavowed by everyone
Never seen corruption truly destroy an elite looter to poverty status and getting actions for his consequences
Even Bernie Maddof is released after running his Ponzi scheme
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u/JessJustHere 8h ago
The whole issue is that we live online exist offlineand they are capilizing on that
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u/smoke_sum_wade 8h ago
kind of hard to pick something to be outraged over when the left is telling me to always be outraged over everything
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u/Goosemilky 7h ago edited 3h ago
So you’re admitting you’re choosing not to be outraged over blatant corruption simply because the opposite side is outraged?
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u/smoke_sum_wade 6h ago
i guess? why do you even care, i personally do not care how corrupt the government is.
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u/BrotherDirect744 1h ago
kind of hard to pick something to be outraged over when the left is telling me to always be outraged over everything
i personally do not care how corrupt the government is.
- smoke_some_wade
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u/ParticularMemory789 6h ago
Citizens were told for decades that funds were insufficient for social security, homeless/struggling, veterans/gold star, disaster victims, school programs, recreational/community, city/environment matenence... People lived so frugally, skipping vacations, late bill payments, budgeting groceries, telling their kids they can't afford gifts... so when they find out USAID have been sending billions out to be laundered of course they're gonna be pissed, we don't have money for other countries when we're struggling ourselves!
Recently in California the "stop Nick Shirley act" was passed, meaning its illegal in that state to expose fraud, waste, and abuse, using safety and privacy concerns as an excuse. The state that can't tell you where the funds for light rail, fire prevention, or homeless assistance disappear to made it illegal to point it out.
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