• Doomsider@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I totally get what you are saying but I will reserve the right to judge revolutions based upon who started them and their actual results.

    I have often had a thought experiment just what it would take for US citizens to rebel. Things are pretty bleak for a lot of people already. The US government has been waging a slow walk genocide with the War on Drugs since before I was born. Millions of families destroyed.

    Clearly gun violence, overdoses, excessive incarceration, systemic sexism/racism, and environmental degredation has taken an incredible toll on the US population. The reality is most people don’t even realize this and probably never will. So I am a bit dubious that there will be any sort of cultural revolution soon.

    Now if by revolution you mean the US descending into some sort of techno feudalist/fascist hellscape then I would probably say it looks like we are already here.