I wish upon a star that we could be a generation that takes power back for the average worker and uses our strength in numbers as leverage to have a better quality of life by making the wealthy pay their fair share.
But it's looking like our historic legacy is going to be that of a fool generation that votes against their own interests and refuses to stand up for themselves.
Yeah. Most likely not. We've only had the ability to actually extinct ourselves for a very short period of time and we've already used nuclear weapons on civilian populations and threatened to use them repeatedly ever since. It's only a matter of time.
When one flies, they all start flying. And if we don't do it that way, we'll simply burn up all the resources this planet provides and pollute the fuck out of our ecosystem.
I'll hold out a glimmer of hope, just cuz everyone likes rooting for the underdog, but realistically, the human species is probably just a temporary thing in the big picture.
You could argue, convincingly, that it's incredibly risky not to.
Ukraine.
They made a deal with Russia to give up their nukes in exchange for Russia never invading them. Fast forward a handful of years and Russia invades them and they have no nukes as deterrent.
We're moving into a future where everyone is going to need nukes as a deterrent from being invaded.
Lol. This pussy ass country is so susceptible to wealthy people. Like, I get it. Money talks. But giving a fucking unelected immigrant clearance to so much shit that is supposed to require strict security clearances.
We're just giving everything away. We aren't even bargaining. We're just letting people with big numbers in their bank accounts rape us without using any leverage against them at all.
So is eating 73 hot dogs in 10 minutes. What does it accomplish?
Eating hot dogs and bringing infringement of rights and a declining quality of life to attention by breaking a record set 68 years ago are very, very different things.
The person you're responding to already answered your question. It accomplished holding up the senate and making national news, which brings attention to the issues. Any attention to our current problems is a good thing. It activates people. Activated people act.
Like the person you responded to said. You don't just cheat code your way to the revolution. It's a process. A lot of people have to be convinced first.
The fact that killing Roe v Wade didn't drive every woman in this nation to CRUSH Republicans in this last election shows that we are in a downward spiral with no end in sight.
Imagine someone taking a human right from you and then you continue to support them to take more rights away from you.
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