I want politicians focused on who they can help more than who they can hurt. Like fundamentally, ignoring all of modern politics, thats what healthy societies are supposed to look like.
From their perspective that’s what they’re doing though. The means to help their kind just involves more collateral damage and what ends up indistinguishable from targeted pain.
Skipping the obvious bullshit of the last 25 years, there was Anita Hill, and Rodney King, Reaganomics, Reagan racism, Nancy “I don’t give a fuck about this until it affects me” Reagan, then Kent State and our military just straight up murdering our kids, Nixon, CIA killings of prominent activists, murder of a president, McCarthyism, that whole anti-immigration/racism era where white Americans rammed god and their view of patriotism in everything (people today STILL think those things were there since the beginning), union and strike busting, child labor, failed reconstruction era, more president’s killed, “compromises” over fucking slavery, wannabe King Jackson not giving a shit about other human beings nor any possible check on power or anyone else’s ideas, a fucking Vice President shot a guy (the first time), begging the first president to be King, and failed attempts at presidency and democracy before that (pre-constitution).
There’s so much. Another one I learned more about in recent years is the horrible testing on Puerto Ricans, including the sterilizations.
For anyone interested, today there are excellent graphic novels about some of these topics, like Kent State and Puerto Rico Strong. I would encourage people as these are excellent ways to learn more about these topics. Some local libraries have them sometimes.
Honest to god, the U.S. propoganda sphere is unmatched. So much of that list is fully kept out of American schools, and the few bits they acknowledge are so whitewashed and sanitized that we could realistically call them fictional accounts. The average American legitimately does not know half of the fucked up things this country has done, which is why most of them still think the problem is Donald Trump, and not all of U.S. society.
Perhaps the greatest kicker is that Americans will criticize regimes like Russia and China for brainwashing their citizens with a straight face, so blissfully unaware of their own conditioning.
No. We need on the left need to focus a hell of a lot more on people we can hurt. Aka, who we can bring to justice and hold accountable for their crimes against the nation. This whole “live and let live, all is forgiven” attitude that Obama and Biden practiced led us directly to our current moment. Dick Cheney should have died in prison, not been featured in the campaign of the Democratic presidential candidate.
I want politicians focused on who they can help more than who they can hurt. Like fundamentally, ignoring all of modern politics, thats what healthy societies are supposed to look like.
From their perspective that’s what they’re doing though. The means to help their kind just involves more collateral damage and what ends up indistinguishable from targeted pain.
That’s why the Zoran Mamdani Campaign is so successful
…human empathy is not a team sport…
It’s a co-op pve
As I grow older, I find pvp less enticing, and long for a helpful community. PvE is the GOAT
Single player experience supremacy
It still works that way in a lot of places. The US has definitely lost its way a long time ago though.
How sweet that you think the US ever had its way.
Skipping the obvious bullshit of the last 25 years, there was Anita Hill, and Rodney King, Reaganomics, Reagan racism, Nancy “I don’t give a fuck about this until it affects me” Reagan, then Kent State and our military just straight up murdering our kids, Nixon, CIA killings of prominent activists, murder of a president, McCarthyism, that whole anti-immigration/racism era where white Americans rammed god and their view of patriotism in everything (people today STILL think those things were there since the beginning), union and strike busting, child labor, failed reconstruction era, more president’s killed, “compromises” over fucking slavery, wannabe King Jackson not giving a shit about other human beings nor any possible check on power or anyone else’s ideas, a fucking Vice President shot a guy (the first time), begging the first president to be King, and failed attempts at presidency and democracy before that (pre-constitution).
I really glossed over a lot too.
Minor omission: exterminating the people who had the unmitigated gall to be living here already.
Which time?
There’s so much. Another one I learned more about in recent years is the horrible testing on Puerto Ricans, including the sterilizations.
For anyone interested, today there are excellent graphic novels about some of these topics, like Kent State and Puerto Rico Strong. I would encourage people as these are excellent ways to learn more about these topics. Some local libraries have them sometimes.
Honest to god, the U.S. propoganda sphere is unmatched. So much of that list is fully kept out of American schools, and the few bits they acknowledge are so whitewashed and sanitized that we could realistically call them fictional accounts. The average American legitimately does not know half of the fucked up things this country has done, which is why most of them still think the problem is Donald Trump, and not all of U.S. society.
Perhaps the greatest kicker is that Americans will criticize regimes like Russia and China for brainwashing their citizens with a straight face, so blissfully unaware of their own conditioning.
This is a great summary but you made me lol with “(the first time)”
Gotta give VP Dick his credit where due.
I tried to read it to the tune of we didn’t start the fire, and it kinda works you just gotta put some flavour in it and you can be the next weird Al
You mean it’s lots it’s way of importing slave labor and exterminating the natives?
No. We need on the left need to focus a hell of a lot more on people we can hurt. Aka, who we can bring to justice and hold accountable for their crimes against the nation. This whole “live and let live, all is forgiven” attitude that Obama and Biden practiced led us directly to our current moment. Dick Cheney should have died in prison, not been featured in the campaign of the Democratic presidential candidate.