Some patriotic reflections on Independence Day
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      • ɯsnN@piefed.zipEnglish
        17·
        6 months ago

        overcoming denial isn’t something anyone can do for someone else–each person has to make that decision on their own. and it’s even harder when everyone around you is in the same state of denial.

        You can’t reason someone out of a position that they didn’t reason themselves into.

    • Maeve@kbin.earth
      8·
      6 months ago

      I came with the same excerpt as your first.

      I disagree with the bit about the king, though, because like the monarchy of the UK, he’s largely there to force us to bow to the jackal and vulture gods of capitalism. Now we have a choice. Will we sacrifice ourselves and children to those false gods, or make the necessary choice of perhaps more difficult sacrifices to the more merciful egalitarian ideals? We may never realize them, in any lifetime. I suppose that largely depends on how much the collective values themselves over capitalists.

  • DandomRude@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42·
    6 months ago

    I find it remarkable that headlines like these are always phrased passively, as if it were a natural disaster sweeping across the country without anyone being responsible.

    • Colonel_Panic_@eviltoast.org
      416·
      6 months ago

      I don’t get why people blame Democrats so much. They are center-right wing. Their entire thing is to basically just maintain the status quo. And then everyone gets all mad when they do exactly that.

      Stop voting for them and get a viable candidate campaign going before the final election. Other than removing FPtP voting and getting RCV or something similar, the only other way to actually see some change is getting so much support behind a leftist that by election season they are leading all the polls. And that starts years before election year. Like… NOW. (Assuming we still have elections by then, but let’s assume we will and push for something better.)

      • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
        181·
        6 months ago

        because there’s no left wing party, they market themselves as left wing, yet take donations from the same corporations that donate to republicans and vote accordingly.

  • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
    336·
    6 months ago

    “Once upon a time in America, there was a tyrant. And Congress rejected him totally. The tyrant, of course, was King George III”

    Constantly spewing bullshit like that is exactly why your democracy crashed. When everything is part of some mystical “greatest nation in the world” fairly tale it’s hard to recognize and defend truly important values.

    Congress didn’t reject the King because he was a tyrant. American elites rejected the King to establish new system where they could reap all the benefits. Then they enslaved people and committed genocide to enrich themselves. It was greed, not bravery that motivated them.

    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
      212·
      6 months ago

      you cannot choose whether you are oppressed. you can only choose by whom. and if you don’t make that choice, then somebody else makes it for you

  • Internet Rando@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    112·
    6 months ago

    All I can say, is the neoliberal efforts towards gun control not only didn’t work - it’s backfired in a way that’s about to make a slave nation out of all of us.

    I have nothing to celebrate as an American. I seek…

    The charismatic leader, with a plan, with command and control, and more importantly - clear guidelines for the cessation of hostilities. Sure would be nice if the rest of you caught up…

  • SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world
    93·
    6 months ago

    There is no more United States of America. It is now the MAGA People’s Republic of Yee-Haw Mannitude. The system allowed it. Just handed everything over to a dictator and the evil men who control him.

    There’s no coming back. No revolution. No foreign invasion to topple the regime. This is our lives, for the next 50 years at least.

    • SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world
      32·
      6 months ago

      Respond how? Not going to happen. “Uh, government bad, both sides, what’s on Netflix?”