There is no rule of law, then what are we doing here? Why are we playing ball?

Ok, MAGA wants to burn it down. Good for MAGA, they still don’t get to decide for everyone.

I won’t be able to do this for long. Why aren’t we in the streets? What’s so great about your life that authoritarian rule is not a threat to you?

  • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
    66·
    11 hours ago

    If you refuse to pay and convince enough other people to refuse to pay, then well congrats. You just started a revolution.

    Why aren’t we in the streets?

    As someone watching from outside, I seriously have no idea.

    • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
      24·
      7 hours ago

      Because we have no community because we’re worked like slaves, and nobody can save in this economy.

      So anyone who stops working has a few months before becoming homeless, and will have no support system

      • const_void@lemmy.ml
        6·
        6 hours ago

        It’s no coincidence that employers have started demanding everyone work from an office lately. If you’re commuting back and forth and everything with it you’ll have a lot less time and energy to fight back.

    • spacecadet@lemm.ee
      6·
      7 hours ago

      why aren’t we in the streets?

      looks out window to street covered in protestors

      But the reason not everyone is because mainly the middle and upper middle classes are still content enough, even if they hate trump. I don’t like him, but my living conditions are still very good. It’s a status quo I’m fine with

      • Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.worldOP
        41·
        5 hours ago

        Those conditions are becoming less and less. Sure you might sleep well tonight but the second your maimed driving your polution machine you’re a burden on a system that no longer cares.

        Say you make it to old age. A few more raids on the stock market and your 401k disappears and when you go to cash your social security it’s been drained since 2025.

        Your future was just stolen from you and you don’t even know it yet.

        No worries you raised a family, surely they will care for you. Except there is so much generational resentment they want nothing to do with you. Say you were good to them and they love you. Even then your fucked because elon took college grants and blew up the department of education. Now they are scrapping by because you didn’t have the money to bank roll them through private school and college.

        Your twilight years which were suppose to be spent playing every game in your steam library while hooked up to an oculus rift have been replaced with waiting at Costco in the bread line and giving blowies so you can buy 30 minutes at the local PC bang to play overwatch 3.