Military and Prison Industrial Ruleplex

Growing up in Eastern Europe I had a romanticised picture of USA and I always wished I grew up there.

Only until years later I realised how privileged I was not having to worry about the student debt, medical insurance and gun violence...

It's true. Everything we were told would happen if we lost the Cold War happened anyway, done to us from within.
- Most of it was already happening and only stopped because people were inspired by “The Reds” as they called them and started the labor movement.
Yes I’m sure the Soviet tenements were much more comfortable than the average American household.
- Well the vast majority of citizens of former Soviet states sure preferred them to what they have now, but they were definitively more comfortable than the thousands of Hoovervilles we were building at the same time the Soviets were building those tenements. And infinitely more so than the thousands of Hoovervilles we have now.
- If by average you mean the totality of every human being in America... have you driven through a city lately?
  A roof over your head beats a tent that gets torn up once a month by cops

Solid

That's why you should show up to protests armed. Either they leave your ass alone cuz they're afraid or they abolish 2nd amendment.

If there’s anything I’ve learned from history, it’s that the police will allow Nazis to strut around with rifles, threaten violence, and sometimes even actually enact violence, but as soon as minorities follow suit, they change the laws.
The largest successful gun control measure in the US was spearheaded by Governor Ronald Reagan in response to the Black Panther Community Policing efforts, which were widely successful in reducing police violence and false arrests in black communities in California. I’m all for what they call in The Grapes of Wrath “Turkey Shoots”, but just be aware that you can expect the rules to change as soon as you do if you’re part of a marginalized group.