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Their definition of violence is anything harming white people or their property

What is there to learn that we don't already know? The USA jockeyed for geopolitical influence during the Cold War, the USSR dissolved and was captured by capitalist interests, and now the Russian Federation is waging wars to protect and project their own influence.

Getting into the nitty gritty is pointless if you truly believe all sides are bad actors. The discourse online is a hollow wedge issue; just countless whataboutisms egging the masses to pick sides and keep the focus off of the people looting and destroying everything.

I think the umbrage most people take is when that opposition to NATO turns into Russian apologism. Like you said yourself, it's a country owned and operated by capitalists waging wars against other capitalist interests. The conversation can end there, fuck both of them.

My phrasing was unclear, I meant the original "all time high" statement being a lie.

I think there's two sides to that coin. One is complacency that everything will fix itself, but the other is the doomerism extreme. Things like:

this is what Americans want

X% of Americans support [atrocity]

there's no political opposition

anything short of an armed insurrection is pointless [including records set by rallies, scale of protest movement, political engagement, etc...]

They might be true taken in one frame of reference, but being bombarded by them isn't effective as a call to action. Seeing only the negative gives the impression that no change is possible and resistance is suppressed as much as complacency.

I'm agreeing with your concern and pointing out that the original comment does not support either of us

Do you want me to requote your whole comment? Or are you just opposed to the "pushing" phrasing?

The heart of what that comment says is that America approves of this coup, which is literally the opposite of what you're pushing. There's no need to lie about very clear polls showing negative public opinion.

I don't think anyone here is under the illusion that negative polls alone will stop the dismantling of America but it shows that the sentiment is much broader than just our echo chamber.

Anecdotally, I've seen more vocal opposition than ever in traditionally neutral/conservative spaces (sports communities, the workplace, bars, etc...). The sentiment is there, people are worried, it just needs to be directed.

All time high? There's 3+ marks on the chart higher and statistical error touches his midterm slump. Maybe "an all time high for this term" since approval ratings nearly always drop all the way through.

Its also worth the context that his terms hold the bottom two slots in initial approval rating, his disapproval rating is always higher than his approval, and he's the only president to never reach 50% approval.

There are "methods" for preventing it but they shouldn't be mentioned in polite company.

Hey, where are all those people saying citizens are untouchable? I have this vague recollection of dozens of comments saying this surely couldn't happen. Am I still overreacting? Just want to be sure...

That money doesn't come out of nowhere; the stock market isn't a magical wealth machine. It works by incentivizing unsustainable private growth at public expense. It's a grand experiment to see who gets left holding the bag when you line shareholders' pockets for decades.

The results are in: after a century of trying, it's not profitable to feed people who can't pay or provide affordable healthcare or keep our shared commons livable. Public benefit is antithetical to shareholder interests.

We've cut the corners as far as they can go; dismantled every regulation; manufactured every last drop of demand. The only growth remaining is mining public user data and selling it to the highest bidder. If you exclude technology companies, the market has already been contracting for at least a decade.

You criticize older generations for expecting the line to keep going up forever and encourage everyone to do the same thing in the same breath.

You're only making money by fucking someone else today or yourself tomorrow. If you want to own it, that's fine. But don't act like you're Robin Hood for encouraging people to buy in to a broken system.

The theory behind DEI policies is to formally challenge personal bias (both explicit and subconscious) in hiring and participation. There's nothing inherently tied to unfairly favoring minority groups other than the fact that they are usually the target of negative bias.

It's a pretty basic and logical idea that acknowledges human fallibility. I hate that it was rapidly co-opted on all sides as a shorthand for racism and opposition to cis-white-male dominance.