• flowernet [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    this is the future Americans are scared of. that their social media feed will just become videos of John Cena apologizing in Chinese and fashionable young women scolding American culture.

      • CommunistBear [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        It might be one of the few things that could actually break the stranglehold of the decades of propaganda

          • Edelgard [she/her]
            hexagon
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            3 years ago

            That’ll probably be a part of the reaction to the propaganda and delusions shattering, yeah. This is based on the violent :cope: of white Americans to anything that remotely acknowledges their own privilege or that many of their ancestors committed genocide.

            Suddenly not getting their treats for the same “low cost” and then having to put those pieces together is going to set off a monstrous reaction.

        • CopsDyingIsGood [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Lmao no fucking way. That's literally never going to happen. Americans will still be yelling "we're the greatest country on earth" after it turns into mad max

          • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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            3 years ago

            Maybe I’m just in a bubble, and I definitely am in a bubble, but I think that illusion is fading faster than you think. Literally every young person I know is like “America is the Bad Place”, and even the Real Adults™ I know, like professors and shit, fairly wealthy white people, are at least like “Healthcare and covid protections pls :yes-honey-left:” and think the government fucked us. I can’t imagine that becoming any less true as conditions continue to get worse.

            • CopsDyingIsGood [he/him]
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              3 years ago

              I want to believe what you're saying but that's optimism, which is never correct

            • LilComrade [comrade/them]
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              3 years ago

              Yeah you live in a bubble. There are Trump supporting homeless people in my city with American flags on their shopping carts. :brainworms: The brainworms are untreatable in many cases

              • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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                3 years ago

                Oh I mean, I know some Trump supporters too. But they’re the only ones left who seem to think America is good, and they’re certainly not a majority, they’re just very loud. And even they think America’s fucked it’s just for a combination of stupid reasons and fascist reasons.

      • Edelgard [she/her]
        hexagon
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        3 years ago

        Literally just a century of us not being able to pillage and oppress the rest of the world, but Americans tantrum and mald the whole time lolol