A society is always about 3 days of hunger away from a violent revolution. Start your clocks.

  • peoplebeproblems@midwest.social
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    8 hours ago

    Is that a bad way to keep a country going? Probably

    You know I said something like this to my therapist once. I ended up with a lot therapy in a short amount of time

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      8 hours ago

      Well, in the context of sovereign states, the equivalent of a therapist would probably be another nation invading the US and rooting out the Nazis. But, would that happen today? No. So, the crazy lady in the attic, while heavily a US problem, is also a global problem.

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        5 hours ago

        We don’t need to be invaded, we are actually capable of rooting out the Nazis ourselves. But around a third of white people are white supremacists and another third get really mad when you call their friends white supremacists, so…