The lockstep calls for a fucking war with Russia across the political spectrum, including by probably 99% of the US left, has convinced me that change for the better is impossible in this country and will be for the forseeable future. People still got World Cop mindset and refuse to let it go. Memories like fucking goldfish, like the last 70 years of US interventionism just don't count or some shit. This country needs to be humbled.
Made a whole damn account just to vent because it seems like this is the only place to do it without people saying you lick Putin's boots.
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The twitterverse is an incredibly small and skewed segment of the population. Not saying Americans are good, but spaces like Twitter and Reddit are in no way reflective of the broad swath of the country. These platforms make it seem like Americans are way more engaged (even if they have bad opinions) than they actually are. If you could walk into a random supermarket in the US and probe a sampling of the brains of the people there, you would find most are barely aware of the situation in the Ukraine, and even less have strong feelings about it.
Most people are focused on trying to get by and their own shit to care that much about US politics, much less what is going on in other countries.