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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 66 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I realized that I was selling myself a story based on a fantasy. FDR and Kennedy sold us on a dream, but the truth is that the US is and has been ruthless, racist, and a bit fascist since its inception. With the exception of Obama (and even then it's iffy), every administration since Carter has been very right-leaning and short of compassion (Clinton was basically a moderate Republican).

Looked at from that perspective, what gains we have made are something to be proud of. What stings is that some of those gains are going to roll back. Sisyphus something or other.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Every time America has changed for the best it's required bloodshed. The Revolution, the Civil War, labor rights, women's rights, civil rights, gay rights: All of them required people to be hurt and die before something changed.

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

Too bad the bloodshed never includes the politicians who helped make it harder to change. Maybe that's what needs to happen instead.

[–] mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I fucking hate that this is true.

I fucking hate that after people have died and the weekend is won, or women can work, or slaves are free that the people who do steadfastly clung to the previous status quo now are suddenly enlightened and can see the advantages of those changes.

Why are people like this?

[–] Skydancer@pawb.social 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Still too optimistic. The people that clung to the previous status quo didn't become enlightened. They stayed just as bigoted, but they died off over time.

[–] Molten_Moron@lemmings.world 8 points 1 week ago

When can we require that the wealthy elite be the ones who get hurt for change to happen?

[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 week ago

(forgot to mention how many of them were willing to sell us out to corporations)

Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States (1980, 2009)

[–] laurelraven@lemmy.zip 38 points 1 week ago

I've had a few days to calm down and process things and I've come to the realization that I was wrong to have calmed down

[–] cybermass@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 week ago

Mee too girl

[–] lath@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You should have faith in humanity. But faith is illusory and reserved only for things that are highly unlikely to happen. So your faith was well placed, it just didn't pan out. Which is pretty standard overall.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm 8 points 1 week ago

I have faith in humanity to keep disappointing me at every possible opportunity.

[–] 4grams@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Pretty much sums it up.

[–] casmael@lemm.ee -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Was the election not cooked though? I wouldn’t say this was exactly that type of problem to be honest

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 7 points 1 week ago

Was the election not cooked though?

Due to a new and novel conspiracy? Almost certainly not. The people who care don't need a new solution, their original solution still works fine.

Cooked through gerry-mandering and voter disenfranchisement practices?

Yes. Absolutely. Once again. As usual. Gerry meandering and voter disenfranchisement is well documented, and has been being done by powerful people against the rest of us, for a very long time.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I don't get this comic. The text is fine, but it has literally nothing to do with the characters or the coffee shop they're in

I guess the story is that the blond girl had a previous conversation with the brunette pair about freaking out about the actions of humanity, followed up by days of silence, and then a tentative message to meet up in a coffee shop somewhere to discuss, or maybe she just bumped into them unplanned (hence the laptop?)

What is even the story here?