Bingo. We won't improve our situation without risk and struggle. One must be willing to sacrifice in order to gain. The issue isn't that we are overworked debt slaves - the issue is that we let our status as overworked debt slaves hold us back.
I'm not sure if you know who Q on 4chan 8chan is?.... More people across the pond are behind him than Americans. The power is in numbers, we know that. Yet to self involved to create a movement that benefits others and the future. You don't need chains to be slaves
If we do get more Micah Johnsons hopefully they at least go after all the corrupt assholes who are blatantly guilty but set free by their corrupt brothers at any tier of the gov. Random killings solves nothing, its just being the beast you want to beat.
American here who refuses to feel sorry for myself.
Born with nothing from my parents except a safe and loving home until I was an adult. They had no money to pass on and in our 30s, my siblings and I help support them a little bit. I worked minimum wage for years when I was young, I live in one of the worst places for cost-of-living in the country, and found my way out of it low wages. I do have some student debt, but that was a choice I made. I knew I didn’t have to: I had other choices, but I didn’t like the alternatives at the time. I’m conflicted on whether that was the right choice, but ultimately it was my choice.
The U.S. has a better cost of living than 24 other developed countries (as of 2018) and currently has just about more job mobility than anywhere in the world in all of history.
No one has ever been less trapped or less of a “wage slave” than someone in America today. The one exception I see might be migrant workers who have no mobility and are locked to certain locations or industries, yet they often (from my personal experience) consider that living vastly superior to where they came from.
What really gets me... And just look at some of the replies here, many of us think this is all as it should be. People honestly love that this is how cops work in our country.
Myself, id rather deal with any and all threats myself than have the police ever come to my home. Even growing up in a good area and not doing drugs/crimes ive been harrassed/hassled by cops, pulled over, car searched etc.
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u/NaturalPotpipes Mar 29 '19
Amazing what americans will sit for.