• Pisodeuorrior@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Nah. People get really pissed when they’re REALLY hungry.

    We’re kept at a perfect balance, we can’t afford top shelf stuff, but most people have enough to get by.

    Sure, it feels like everyone is a medium-sized misadventure away from financial collapse, but still, we get by. We have Internet, shows to stream, cheap shitty fast food next door.
    No one can be bothered to go outside to chop heads demanding to redistribute wealth.

    Especially considering that half the population has been talked into believing that by pulling your boot straps you can get as rich as Elon Musk, and Trump is literally Jesus.

    There’s no revolution incoming, just occasional angry tweets.

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      80% of Americans deal with precarity. Food precarity, rent precarity, job precarity, family precarity, health precarity.

      So a lot of us are feeling the discontent.

      But we lefties arent used to planning violent protest (say sabotage and mischief. We’d rather not actually kill anyone.)

      One possibility is the right-wing doing some sparking. A group of militant extremist reactionaries might load up and massacre a venue to get the civil war started.

      Or the government could pass some laws resulting in mass incarcerations of non-violent offenders (say abortion seekers or LGBT+). Once that starts turning into capital punishment of young women protests might turn into arson of police and state facilities. We saw a bit of this with Iran with the Mahsa Amini protests or in 2020 US with the George Floyd protests.