Rare solid article from AP
I looked up a rough estimate on this: 12 million indigenous people were killed between 1492-1900 (in what is today the US)
totally. I don't know how true this is, but I also read that sharks were not native to the east coast of the United States before the Atlantic Slave Trade. They only migrated there by following slave ships that would regularly toss kidnapped Africans overboard. Extremely grotesque
The corpses of native Americans, African slaves, and Chinese construction workers :desolate:
Whenever there’s a shooting, conservatives’ first reaction is “WHAT ABOUT ME???! WHAT ABOUT MUH GUNS!!!!” Literally no soul. All they can think about is their treats. Gun stores know this so they always jack up prices following a shooting. Just evil, selfish people. So I’m not surprised it translated over to a pandemic.
Don’t forget that a big driving force behind these “lone wolf” white supremacist terror attacks is to replicate the plot of The Turner Diaries, where a terrorist action leads to the US government banning guns, which causes a civil war which results in the establishment of the US as an open ethnostate where women are enslaved.
Everyone is just so burnt out and running on fumes
In the US we can all feel it - the fucky vibe of slow collapse
everyone in america is paralyzed. everything, including mass death, is "tolerated" because nothing can change anyways so what's the point in not tolerating it and just making yourself upset. in the days/weeks following/during any event, the libs and cons stake out their rhetorical positions and then just camp there. when was the last time meaningful legislation regarding literally anything passed in america? the ACA is the last major thing i can think of congress doing that wasn't just status quo and that was more than 10 years ago
If you scope it to things that help people, yes. Things that help corporations or the war machine sail through
I honestly thought that you did some editorializing in the title lol, pleasantly surprised to see that's actually the legitimate headline.
Pretty good article too, they even mentioned the tens of thousands of automobile deaths annually. (:traingang:, rise up!)
Don't worry, democrats are on it, and we're airdropping pallets full of money into every police precinct! :biden-troll:
I think Adorno and Horkheimer said something like the tragedy of the modern age is the inability to put yourself in other people's shoes. Hence, "as long as it's not me, I don't care"
Another factor is/will be climate related issues, both in amerikkka and internationally. Every extreme weather event whether it's heat in LA and India, or winter storms in Texas will kill dozens or hundreds, at a minimum who will not be remembered in any meaningful sense
This is deadass why I don't believe evangelical moral superiority for a second.
At the end of the day, these are nihilists we're dealing with. Nothing matters except their pleasure.
nihilists... i mean, say what you want about the tenets of national socialism, Dude, but at least it's an ethos.
