Richest country on the fucking planet yet we can’t won’t pay ATC 🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦

Very cool! Apparently someone did an open-source implementation of this (OpenEvolve).

Do Bush next

Dr. King’s policy was that nonviolence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States. His major assumption was that if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. That’s very good. He only made one fallacious assumption: In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none.

— Kwame Ture

All we have left is sustained non-violent, disruptive civil disobedience.

Fight like Hell to survive with whatever leverage they do have.

No and they never have. They’ve always been crushed continuously, died alone in silence, and been forgotten about.

Getting pretty tired of this guy country.

And people wonder why I don’t go outside

Well I don’t literally agree, but that’s a more relatable perspective 😆

Depends on what’s outside. Is it a five-hundred foot drop? Would I rather burn to death or die on the pavement?

I’m saying it’s just not bad enough yet.

Yeah it’s not bad enough yet for me. I’m openly saying it. And that doesn’t make me morally inferior or worthy of your scorn.

I think you would have a better chance getting on a plane

Stowaways using die after takeoff. Only since literally yesterday have I ever had enough spare money to buy a plane ticket. At this point, I’m probably gonna try and do a semester abroad (or ideally forever), but no guarantees 🤞.

or swimming across the ocean

Absolutely zero chance I would make it to the other side of the Atlantic. A more realistic option is swimming across one of the rivers or sneaking through the Canadian border. Which…

in order to establish a life as an illegal alien in another country…

Yeah almost every other country treats undocumented migrants like shit because every country has xenophobic bigots and every government serves its local capitalists, so not much of an improvement.

What it really breaks down to is that people who live in Tennessee do not feel the risk of spending 30 days in jail for posting something disagreeable on the Internet is enough reason to leave Tennessee.

Yes exactly! Emphasis on risk, i.e. we assume a probability distribution and roll the dice. IMO the alternatives you proposed have less favorable distributions for me than remaining here, but I recognize that (1) everyone has their own situation and (2) humans are trash at assigning probabilities so I could be wrong. But you’re not morally superior (or inferior) for choosing not to roll that specific dice.

Like I’ve been looking to leave this country for over 15 years. I absolutely HATE Amerikkka and everything it stands for, and I have hated Amerikkka since long before Trump. If I could have left, I would have left. So I beg you to understand that just because I remain here doesn’t mean I approve of even the tiniest sliver of what this country does to us and the rest of the world.

We no longer live in a country where we can justify staying in a location because we don’t have money to move or we have family and friends we don’t want to lose.

Read: We no longer live in a country where we can appeal to material reality to determine whether or not it makes sense to stay here.

I’d be on a flight out this removed right fucking now if I thought I had a serious chance of surviving in literally any other country, but I simply don’t have the money, connections, social skills, or practical skills to do it. I barely even have them here!

I’ll say here what I said to the other guy: I’m not taking advice on leftist politics from a Republican.

There are definitely bots but I think people are good about making their bots known, and most of the content you see is posted by humans… because who tf would pay to run a bot farm on our little corner of the Internet?

If you want to see absolutely no accounts that self-report as bots, there’s a setting for that in Lemmy.

Yeah I don’t need to hear opinions about leftist politics from Republicans

Yes I would like to paint my entire body with this

No I will not be taking questions

Thicc wenis

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