Who tf says we're not mad? We're fucking furious.
this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2025
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I think internet in general specifically social media. It allows you to vent your frustrations without doing actual damage. It's also easy to disconnect compared to marching to the streets.
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Culture war.
Because a third of Americans are uninformed, another third is misinformed and thinks the current administration is in line with their goals, the other third is being gaslit by the other 2/3s that this is normal... And for those not buying the gaslighting, they are ignored and still too small of a group to do much.
own the libs is more important than progress
Complacency
We're all mad
30 years of watching progressive movements flounder and civil action lead to absolutely zero substantial changes has given me a defeatist attitude. What good is getting mad? It's not like it will change anything.
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I AM mad. So are my close friends and family
Everyone is mad and everyone can't agree why were mad so now were more mad.
Ignorance and apathy.
Gaslighting?
I'm mad as fuck. Get me one (or more) of those traitorous bastards within arm's reach and they'll find out precisely how mad.
We are mad but we are also distracted and overwhelmed. You can't get mad at work because you might get fired. Then there goes your housing and food and healthcare. It's going to have to get a lot worse before things pop off.
i think they are. they just been propagandized so hard with anticommunism that they are at a loss of what to do. thats not even just the us.
I’m plenty mad but every solution short of REDACTED feels like a waste of time.
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I dunno, they seem to be mad. It's just most of them are wrong about who they should be mad at and why
I think we're just on a down wave globally. In early 00s we got social media which helped to organize people and lead to real actionable ideas. The bad actors figured it out and took control of our tools and now people are waiting for a new opportunity.
I think Americans need a strong leader and something to break the camel's back. Everyone's who's angry now doesn't have a good "deal" for risking exposure and their complacency because the failures are just too recent.
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Everyone I talk to is mad, my family is a bunch of Tumpers and beloeve everything he says.
Everyone's angry, nobody can agree on what the problem is or what to do about it.
I've gone through all the stages of grief and I don't live there. I honestly don't know why it does or even should bother me. I guess there is some part of me that hates injustice and has some nostalgia for an America, real or always imagined, that was trying to do its best for the free world (even though that was, in many cases, found to be objectively not true later).
If anything, it seems like they may finally get rid of some of the stuff that makes it difficult to impossible for US people living overseas to use certain retirement vehicles without committing tax fraud (PFICs; PFICs everywhere and I can't put income into my US tax-advantaged vehicles due to rules on that side), but potentially doing one thing that helps me does not do anything to assuage my revulsion and rage at the current situation.
Police Procedural shows.
Law and Order, Criminal Minds, NCIS, CSI, Lie to Me, Dexter...
Basically, anything that makes people think that police are more effective at solving crime than they actually are.
The fact that it's exactly what they want.
Trump won with the popular vote: thhose want to be fascists. And those who don't vote, well they just confirm a fascist in power.
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