Leading up to the election, I was keeping tuned in on a lot more. Election over, I’m done listening to people thinking they can predict what’s going to happen, or hand-wringing about how bad the last thing that happened was.
An event actually took place? Something actually happened? (This includes “Someone with political power said a thing.”) Yes, tell me about that. Cut back to the panel for them to kvetch about it for ten minutes? All done.
Native American genocide, Slavery, Jim Crow, today’s migrant labor exploitation, largest prison population on Earth because private profit, Only “developed” nation without universal healthcare because private profit, waged war and conducted extralegal operations around the world to topple prosocial, anticapitalist regimes to keep their resource markets open for our profiteers exploitation, heavy handed influence on other countries to prioritize GDP metastasis over their people’s wellbeing.
No it fucking wasn’t. We talked a big game of benevolence, even might have veered towards a path of becoming benevolent in the wake of the capitalist created great depression, but that didn’t last long. We were shit all the way down, and a destructive force in this world to this day.
North Korea, Russia, China, all bad actor authoritarians that only care about their own elite’s power at their people’s expense. That doesn’t make us a good actor, merely a better marketed/propagandized bad actor that belongs in their company.
That was the plan. Fill the stream with shit and over simulate the media until they tune out.
All according to plan.
It was a good run America, my country.
Leading up to the election, I was keeping tuned in on a lot more. Election over, I’m done listening to people thinking they can predict what’s going to happen, or hand-wringing about how bad the last thing that happened was.
An event actually took place? Something actually happened? (This includes “Someone with political power said a thing.”) Yes, tell me about that. Cut back to the panel for them to kvetch about it for ten minutes? All done.
Native American genocide, Slavery, Jim Crow, today’s migrant labor exploitation, largest prison population on Earth because private profit, Only “developed” nation without universal healthcare because private profit, waged war and conducted extralegal operations around the world to topple prosocial, anticapitalist regimes to keep their resource markets open for our profiteers exploitation, heavy handed influence on other countries to prioritize GDP metastasis over their people’s wellbeing.
No it fucking wasn’t. We talked a big game of benevolence, even might have veered towards a path of becoming benevolent in the wake of the capitalist created great depression, but that didn’t last long. We were shit all the way down, and a destructive force in this world to this day.
North Korea, Russia, China, all bad actor authoritarians that only care about their own elite’s power at their people’s expense. That doesn’t make us a good actor, merely a better marketed/propagandized bad actor that belongs in their company.
I could do the listing of all-good things too, but I don’t want to put in that much effort because I don’t think it’d be received well anyway.
There’s lots to fix; America is an ideal, we never get there, we always keep trying to make it better.