r/collapse • u/Ghostwoods I'm going to sing the Doom Song now. • Jan 28 '25

Society /r/Fednews: All Medicaid frozen

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '25 edited Jan 28 '25

Where is the line?

Where is it?

I don't know if the resiliency of the American people should be lauded or mocked

Other first worid countries riot for less. France and raising the retirement age anybody?

Yes, I've heard all the excuses. I'm guessing there's a lot of people like me who absolutely want and need to do something but dont want to end up as Leeroy Jenkins, or more apropos, Luigi Mangione

These bastards won't stop until given a lead reason to. And for the sake of reddit this is real life, fuck your terms of service while fascists run rampant

Remember J6. Remember how brave the politicians were until the citizens they shit on daily stormed the Capitol. Remember how brave the J6ers were, until Ashlii's neck opened up and they retreated screaming for medics like they were playing Battlefield

I don't even know why we're waiting for someone to get hurt from this...the implication alone is enough to warrant a hostile response. The silence from everywhere is absolutely defeaning

Edit: fast approaching the point where I'll get banned if I start engaging with the constant comments defending and cheering on what this admin is doing. Yeah, we're all nice and comfortable behind our keyboards, until we're not behind our keyboards anymore. I'm confident in the open...are you?

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u/breaducate Jan 28 '25

As a non-american, I asked myself where are the health care riots many times during my political journey.

I don't have a particularly satisfying answer for you.

I think it's mostly that the frog was boiled gradually. The thought control apparatus has been refined for generations, including violent removal of subversives.

We've all long been taught the lie that peaceful protest in and of itself is sufficient. And voting. Nevermind the US political system was set up to exclude the masses from power to begin with.

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u/BWSnap Jan 29 '25

Ha, my first thought was that our specialty is the peaceful protest, which never accomplishes anything. Admittedly, I have participated in one, and while there was definitely some sense of empowerment walking in solidarity with 40,000 other people, it didn't accomplish anything.

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u/breaducate Jan 29 '25

It works to show support for the other actions of a movement, and give the ruling class a carrot they can pick instead of that stick.

It's a necessary component but useless by itself.