• Digit@lemmy.wtf
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    Still the bad joke of the world here.

    Biggest prison population, most “asset forfeiture”, most chemically polluted “food” supply, paying the most for worst healthcare, relatively non-existent public transport, hegemonic oligarchy pretending to be democracy spreading democracy by “regime change”, “education” system indoctrinating insularity and ignorance,

    [Edit + these the LLM added for me because it’s an exhausting list to manually write] mass shootings as a cultural pastime, student debt as a life sentence, “freedom” measured in gun ownership but not in healthcare access, military budget bigger than the next ten countries combined, “infrastructure week” as a recurring punchline, two-party system that’s just one party with two heads, “justice” system that’s a revolving door for the rich and a trapdoor for the poor, “American Dream” now just a subscription service with hidden fees, [Edit: and the list can go on for at least twice as long again yet.]

    and a corporate monopoly media to bind peoples minds by.

    … “land of the free”, “USA number one!”.

    XD

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      Imagine the day everybody wakes up to the situation,

      and does not fall for having their awakening psyop’ed into another divisive perverse managed groupthink.

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        they’ll just let the sauds blow up another skyscraper or 2 and invade some entirely unrelated country

        it’s been the same playbook for the last 50 years

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          23 hours ago

          For one example,

          Wake up to that fact, and do something about it, like learning how to not be that, and how to do… well, not that [plan a heist ~ lol], but something else, something beneficial, to get out of the trap. I don’t know what. Maybe put a sign up saying “Want to start an amish community with me?” *shrug*

          PS, 2 other tidbits that reminds me of… 1st, in my teens (decades ago), I graffiti’d on a friend’s wall art of the american flag, the phrase “one dollar, one vote”, and the friend welcomed satirical calling-out. and the 2nd, “It must be a trap” “Then why are you still going?” “I want to find out what kind of a trap it is.”, from Akira always sticks in my mind. :D

          [Edit: OH! Or… to answer your

          Wake up and do what?

          question another way…

          just exactly as I said:

          not fall for having their awakening psyop’ed into another divisive perverse managed groupthink.

          Do that.]