History Memes

the great american gaslight is fundamentally that the exploitation we enact against everyone makes us special and immune to exploitation. our country is founded not just on the genocides committed by the american aristocracy, but on the genocides that brought the working masses here. you've probably heard it from an immigrant here at some point. "people here don't know how good they have it."

this. this right here is the core of how our country has operated all this time as a third world country with a gucci belt. something interesting is happening right now though. the president has sold the gucci belt. those immigrants who have been saying "people here don't know how good they have it" are seeing what people who have been here longer have been saying: that our police state keeps no one safe.

in many ways, what i want most is to build the America my Ukrainian coworker thought she was moving to in 2014, the one she's slowly come to see contributes to the horrors of the world at large she wanted to escape from, and has quickly come to see as being a new implementation of the USSR. the America i knew never existed, and the one she's so sad to have lost.

but ultimately, i think that would be at best a stepping stone. the real thing to reach for is a world with no divisions and no hierarchy. a world where all are cared for out of love rather than economic incentive. we live in a world of horrors. i think often of how vampires control this country. i am surrounded by zombies. the only people running for office to oppose the vampires are werewolves, funded by the exact same ghouls who fund the vampires