Yeah I’m like an entire days drive from DC or something and I don’t have a car or money for the extremely (intentionally) limited and expensive transportation options to get there. Plus they’ve been passing the older military equipment down through agencies to the point where my Midwestern hometown of like 20k people has an APC and grenade launchers. Its not looking good unless the military stands up for us, which I have a little hope for because of this update I’ll attach, but I don’t want to hand them all the power in the vacuum that is created afterwards because as has been pointed out many times here in this thread and elsewhere, they have a huge impact on the rest of the world, in particular the global south, and the MIC as a whole is the world’s largest polluter and historically is a massive driver of suffering and subjugation abroad and at home. I am very much afraid for everyone, and I hold the value of all human lives equality. The situation has become so complex with layers of psyops, propaganda, and misinformation, plus AI, healthcare, and so on, it’s all connected and it’s all toxic and fucked up because in some way everyone in our society buys into the literal death cult that is capitalism, and the country (if not much of the world) runs on cognitive dissonance just to not collapse under the weight of all the contradictions that are required to maintain the status quo.
Update on the army:
(Obviously much of this is based on my experience and my experience is not necessarily universal, as I apparently have to point out extremely clearly every time I make a statement of opinion on Lemmy lately)
Yeah I’m like an entire days drive from DC or something and I don’t have a car or money for the extremely (intentionally) limited and expensive transportation options to get there. Plus they’ve been passing the older military equipment down through agencies to the point where my Midwestern hometown of like 20k people has an APC and grenade launchers. Its not looking good unless the military stands up for us, which I have a little hope for because of this update I’ll attach, but I don’t want to hand them all the power in the vacuum that is created afterwards because as has been pointed out many times here in this thread and elsewhere, they have a huge impact on the rest of the world, in particular the global south, and the MIC as a whole is the world’s largest polluter and historically is a massive driver of suffering and subjugation abroad and at home. I am very much afraid for everyone, and I hold the value of all human lives equality. The situation has become so complex with layers of psyops, propaganda, and misinformation, plus AI, healthcare, and so on, it’s all connected and it’s all toxic and fucked up because in some way everyone in our society buys into the literal death cult that is capitalism, and the country (if not much of the world) runs on cognitive dissonance just to not collapse under the weight of all the contradictions that are required to maintain the status quo.
Update on the army:
(Obviously much of this is based on my experience and my experience is not necessarily universal, as I apparently have to point out extremely clearly every time I make a statement of opinion on Lemmy lately)