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The US Americans have lost their marbles.
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Speaking for the general strike, there are arguably a number of reasons why that’s a lot harder to get rolling in the states. Social safety nets are laughable, worker protections are shittier and union busting is greater than a lot of other nations. A lot of people keep their heads down and don’t act up for fear of loosing what they have.
IMHO complacency oversimplifies and ignores the root causes behind collective action or inaction.
And that said, when it came to shit like ICE, and communities literally have nothing left to lose, that shit gets fucking LOUD in a city. Block by block citizen patrols, lots of organization, etc. But that doesn’t seem to get a lot of press in the news, and people assume Americans are just taking it lying down.
I guess the best thing to do is join a union, and make sure to always make use of your opportunity to vote
Problem is that for the majority of Americans “join a union” in 2026 means “start a union, and go up against a multibillion dollar company that is going to use endless amounts of money and lawyers to stop you”
Some people pull it off successfully. More fail and end up unemployed with shit unemployment and no healthcare.
I wonder how people were able to ever revolt and kill their masters when healthcare, etc is a pretty new thing.
I think US americans are just lazy, complacent and do want all this
You're forgetting that the weaponry and surveillance are better now too.
historically, revolutions have followed times of great hardship, where the working class (or peasantry if we're going back further) had nothing left to lose. They also frequently had wealthy backers in the shadows and/or charismatic leaders.
None of that is currently true of the U.S. If you want to call that laziness, fine, but then you have to recognize that humans were "lazy" for most of recorded history.
Historically i dont think we had a country/a people that has been flooding the world for decades with propaganda that they are the good guys and believing it themselves. Americans were never too lazy to tell the world how awesome they are.
Americans were also never too lazy to kill people. Probably only the easy kills. Hmm