You're what an internet turtle philosopher describe as "the pretentious dude at a party who thinks he's got everything figured out. Really now? You figured out the meaning of life and you're certain of it?"
Okay, then why do you care about human knowledge and want to learn as much as possible? What about the application of that knowledge?
This is plain dumb and the same rhetoric that got America into its fascist me first bullshit policy in the first place.
The system got hijacked. The people speaking out are getting arrested and deported to a foreign death camp. The US will course correct, or need help doing so.
Sit your militant LARPIng troll ass down and let the adults figure this shit out. A war is not good for either country, nor is a need for constant paranoia like you're suggesting.
Actually, I think it shows how susceptible people are to what media tells them. The word is getting out to resist and organize. Traditional media doesn't have full control, but it is working to slow the reaction down.
Furthermore, people have a much tighter leash to their corporate overlords/sponsors, they have to be strategic about which protest (if they even have the energy).
So yeah, it's dumb and circumstances. But we've been been engineered down this path for the past few decades, it's coming for you too.
I think the bigger issue isn't even cost. Fuck, most people in CA can deal with $30 if the process was instant. Let's not pretend that's what stopping people
The real issue is taking the day off from work to wait your ass in DMV lines when you really rather just stay home in bed if you're gonna spend a day not grinding down to a mental break
Besides bluesky, can we start seeing more of the protests here on lemmy? And see it flood the pages here? If someone just posts one a day from each location, that will kick start enough people to join
Nah, we tried appealing to the center shit and that got us nowhere. Go hard on restoring working class America. Fuck racism, sexism, and ignorance - that shit got us a slow slide down to where we are now .
Kick the fucking oligarchs out and tax the fuck out of them. Rich should mean enough money to be very comfortable and never worry again, but not enough to buy elections.
This country is so neutered on peace messages and frazzled in disinformation we can't even march in a single direction together.
Everyone is one paycheck away from losing everything, and don't want to bank it on the fact that the protest they skip work for will change anything... Because so far they haven't.
Maybe it's time to go door to door asking people to join a march to DC and every capitol?
It's not meaning. It's just a mechanism. It's the canvas to what we do and ascribe meaning to.
Then again, our "meaning" might simply be a mechanism to another system