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Military service will reportedly no longer classify 'divisive' swastika as 'hate' symbol
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Because we aren't important enough for politicians to pay attention to. Our calls just go straight into an answering machine that gets ignored because we're not big-dollar donors like Musk. Musk probably has a direct line.
Yeah. We are in poverty. We have had stagnant wages for like 40 years, but rampent inflation. This is the second gilded age like it was in the 20s and earlier. The rich have everything and direct lines to politicians, and the poor need 3 gig jobs and a regular job just to afford rent and food. In a work heap like this, we need foreknowledge to schedule our protests around. We can't afford the privilege of just taking off and protesting.
Again, you're conflating poverty and desperation in a backdrop of political corruption as aquiesence.
Sure, but why do so many people in the US jot even seem to be aware of what’s happening? Why are things still happening like this is just a rainy day and not a biblical flood?
I’m not going to ask for violence specifically but from the outside looking in it’s like most of the country doesn’t even know that anything particularly bad is happening.