Millennials and Gen Z have largely given up. Occupy Wall Street did nothing; BLM did nothing; Trump was re-elected after his first term. It feels hopeless.

People are socially isolated. Most interactions happen on private social media platforms where people have been conditioned to filter their responses to not upset arbitrary algorithms, or future educational institutions, or future employers. The Luigi Mangione discourse caused people to break from that, but look at how YouTube and Reddit wrangled that discussion down. And that was just praising a shooting that already happened.

Most important: Years of hearing praise for government policy and legal means of change has left most Americans paralyzed when those systems are failing. We were raised on Martin Luther King Jr. without mention of Malcom X. We were told to "protest and rally" for change - period. No one explained the unspoken threat behind protests - of the force of 20,000 or 40,000 or however-many angry people. And those in power know that. Every modern protest and rally at most threatens to not re-elect the current politicians, and the Republicans have made it clear they don't plan on honoring that election.

I fully agree with the content OP posted.

But I cannot help myself.

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Because people give their power away to authorities, instead of taking control over their own lives. No one is going to rescue any of you. Only when we all accept this and move on, together, will we ever be free.

because it turned out Americans are too meek or too ignorant to act

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Most the population is checked out you’re not getting a revolution until they starve.

Capitalism is very good at protecting itself.

Join a union and vote radical left.

Sure, but I miss when the internet was an escape, now its kinda of dead for me, I spend more time offline because of the 24/7 outrage, like yeah im upset too, but it just gets repetitive, im not built to be stressed out constantly, im getting blood pressure issues, had to dlt x because the algoirthim shifted towards controversy hard, and have to use lemmy less since its just depressing/exciting in a bad way news all the time.
Really wish lemmy was an exception, considering how small it is and how powerless the userbase is, yet its just another source of stress in my life lately

That’s a dang ol’ fuck, man -Boomhauer

The kind where you execute your surpressors or where you throw imports into the harbour?

What would be signs of a revolution?