• Art3mis@lemmy.world
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    “Needing riots” is not my point. Nobody “needs” riots. But when the powers at be decide to disenfranchise the populace and revoke or corrupt every avenue of civil justice, they leave people with nothing to lose but their chains or lives. It would obviously be better to just launch them all into the sun or something. But that is not how revolutions tend to go. People cling to their comforts until they can’t; and by then so many are so desperate and so angry, that riots just happen.

    And guess who happens to be the most targeted in real revolutionary riots… thats right, class traitors and the owning class.

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            Its a jest. I am american.

            I think once we reach critical mass of desperation within the core, unrest will snowball rapidly. Americans are largely selfish but the ouroboros of the american empire is eating itself and the masses are feeling it. Its already pretty common for your average becky to recognize that capitalism is kind of a big problem and something has to give.

            I think the rest of the world.seems to be getting on just fine without the amerizionist empire. The growing pains will last a couple years and they will all be better for it.

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              Oh I mean Americans they’ll kill everyone else first like go down the whole neimoller poem then at the very end they’ll do the fuckers responsible maybe after inventing a couple more categories of innocent to slaughter

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                Eh, i think the mainstream media and twitter are the wrong sources for how americans feel rn. A lot of us are pretty pissed and definitely trying to figure out what to do from here