There was a horrible post on r/prequelmemes where someone noticed that a jedi mentioned in some sort of Star Wars encyclopedia was named after someone who died tackling a shooter a few years ago. I'm not even going to link to it because it's fucking gross. We as a society won't do anything to address the epidemic of violence this country lives with, but your deaths won't be in vain. You will live on in the sagas of the franchise owned by the worlds largest media conglomerate that they paid someone in the third world 8 cents an hour to write. We may or may not make it non-canon in ten years depending on if the shareholders want a reboot.
Americans will realize our leaders don't give a shit about us because they're in the pockets of industry and finance. We'll bemoan that fact. We'll die because of it. When push comes to shove though, we won't do shit about it.
Frankly the people's inaction is the most disheartening thing. A doctor that refuses to treat a patient is committing a crime. A people that lets their fellow persons die from disease, poverty, and mass violence is shirking their social duty in the same manner. The corruption and incompetence of our leaders is killing us and we are so pacified we will not defend ourselves. At this point it should be evident to every person that a basic test of humanity is replacing the US government with something amicable to human life and ending this nightmare. It just doesn't seem to click though. Even the most progressive gun control advocates (I'm not interested in the merits of gun control here, just using them to make a point) are hopelessly unable to work towards a world where the government serves people rather than capital.
We'll probably just keep putting up with this bullshit. At least I've got my [media slop] extended universe. :agony-deep:
As an addendum, the violence America inflicts on itself is inflicted tenfold on the rest of the world and we're perfectly content with that too. At this point it's not just the incompetence of American leadership that is a crime, but the total inability of Americans to align with basic human interests and depose their corrupt regime.