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by paypalcust83 2243 days ago
Warm, trickle-down economics. The people clearly aren't bothered enough by losing their jobs or receiving pittance consolation prizes, or they would've revolted by now.
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Ironically, the people who I've come to respect recently are the ones protesting the quarantine. Don't get me wrong they are stupid but the fact that they are protesting something they believe is wrong says a lot about the people who have been exploited by the system and did nothing about it.
Rebel without a cause, rebel without a clue.

Barking up the wrong tree is either virtue-signaling, divide-and-conquered tribalism, a failure of moral courage, and/or a failure of critical-thinking skills. It's easier for most people to make pointless gestures or scapegoat certain groups than attack the root causes of their misery... and there's no strategic thinking involved.

The obvious matter for everyone with a net balance sheet less than eight figures is that small segment of society whose greed and entitlement has greatly outpaced their respect and decency towards others and the planet. The vast majority of people are too afraid of the corporate state's militaristic violence potential or too complicit in relative comfort to rock the proverbial boat. In inverted totalitarian societies, you get deplatformed or harassed at airports; in totalitarian societies, 70-some students and teachers get delivered by the police to other criminal gangs for disposal in the hills.

Too depressed and broken at this point.
Yourself? If so, don't fall for learned helplessness, my friend. That's a desired endgame for the bastards.

All it takes is a million or so people walking over to the seats of power and gently encouraging the particular corrupt officials to voluntarily turn themselves over for jail pending trial.

I'm not a fan of mania for hope or future hockeystick progress, but it's the purposeful actions of moral and physical courage of a relative handful of unreasonable people who dent the universe. The worst that can happen is dying without trying; anything else is better than that.