I’d like to thank everyone for my most upvoted post on lemmy ever. Not only have you upvoted it to the top for like 2 days you commented the shit out of it. I’d like to take this opportunity to say fuck the mods of this instance. This was my second post coming off a 30 day ban and I want to say these fucking mods have been nothing but bitches. I’ve never been more attacked on any other instance, subreddit, forum, etc. then I have been in this fucking instance. Not only have I been attacked I’ve been told my memes arent memey enough again and again.
I’ll be honest, I do not know how to make a meme but I keep posting just to piss in these mods cheerios.
Thanks lemmy.world/politicalmemes for being the worst community I’ve ever been a part of.
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What a joke
Id argue it’s an entirely different issue. Our country has no problem with violence, the numbers make that abundantly clear. I feel the issue more so stems from a lot of people here being relatively indifferent to things that don’t directly affect them. Many, if not most Americans are rabidly individualistic, they care about themselves, and a very small circle around them with everything outside that small circle being the “others” those others being the ones they blame for all their issues. As long as nothing negatively impacts their small circle they care about, they don’t give a shit.
That individualism in a lot of places itself stems from how rural and spread out a majority of the country is. Shit, even for me to go join a protest at the Capitol of just my state is a 3 hour drive each direction, and I don’t even live in one of the bigger states. This country is so spread out in many areas that it’s hard for many to care, let alone actually get involved if they do care.
You mix that individualism with a lot of really, incredibly stupid people, im talking half of the country can only read at a 6th grade level or less, and the fact that a large swath of people are living paycheck to paycheck and literally don’t have the time or resources to get out and protest unless they’d like to be homeless without Healthcare, and this is the result you get. There have been tons of protests, quite a few of which have gathered some pretty good traction, even if its not shown in the media, but getting something going en masse in this country is nearly impossible.
I submit the price of eggs as evidence that if it were about self interest, there’d be a communist revolution tomorrow.
I see it as less self interest, and more self idolization. As much as people here complain about “being broke” nowhere in the world do people on average have more expendable income than in the US. The price of eggs, or much of anything else for that matter, outside of a hyperinflation scenario, is more of a mild inconvenience to most people here than anything else. Sure, people might have to cut back a little elsewhere and do something horrible like skip a yearly phone upgrade to the newest $1500 phone they don’t need, but they’ll be fine.
Why i see it as self idolization rather than self interest is because what i see is moreso people just attempting to fellate their own ego, with a lot of people in this country, especially in more rural, conservative areas like I’m in, are people that are broke for reasons that are all but entirely their fault, but they don’t want to blame themselves, trump and Republicans give them someone else to point the finger at, and they roll with it because in their tiny, buttery smooth little brains, to them if there’s someone else to blame, and we fix that, then their lives will get better without them having to change what they’re doing, and they like that more than putting the fault where it belongs, on themselves and actually fixing some of their own problems. In their heads, they’d be doing great if it weren’t for x, y, z, that’s completely out of their control, because they’re doing a great job, its “those other people” over there causing all the issues, so it’s “we need to stop those people so my life will get better without me having to do anything, because i’m obviously not doing anything wrong”
If they converted to leftism, they could blame their economic troubles on Donald Trump and Jeff Bezos. Clearly it’s not just looking for someone to blame.
It’s two sides of the same coin. One side blames wealthy capitalists abusing the system to enrich themselves at the expense of others. The other side blames immigrants, minorities, etc. For stealing jobs, abusing welfare systems, etc. Causing hardship through job loss, higher than necessary taxes to cover that abuse, etc.
The question to find the truth then becomes what is it you see and experience in your daily life? Personally, i don’t see how someone could steal my job. Someone can’t just show up, go yoink, and take it. It’s given to them, rather it’s because they’ll work for less money, or in worse conditions, whatever. They do something I won’t that in the end, is a net gain on the profit margin, thus, im out, the other person is in. To me that person didn’t steal my job, the boss gave them that job because they can take advantage of that person in ways they couldn’t take advantage of me, through lower pay, worse benefits, for the sake of benefitting themselves.
Both sides see that same scenario happen, one blames the boss for taking advantage of a person to create profit, the other blames the person for stealing their job and putting them in hardship.
Rabid self interest, and collectivism are kinda mutually exclusive…
I disagree. I know I’ll never be a rich capitalist. But if we’re all rich communists, then I’ll be rich.
I agree with that view, but you just kinda picked rabid collectivism, over rabid individualism. You seem to have missed the forest for the trees. Yes, if we are all prospering then you will be prospering as well is literally collectivism distilled into its base form.
If I was an individualist, why would I choose to support the capitalist system that makes me poor? Communism is much more sensible for my “rational self interest”