It's weird when a confluence of things happening in an election year look like they'd have the same tactical significance as acts of war. Instead, you just collude with the right people to bring these things about so they look plausibly natural. Oh, labor unrest. Of course. Why wouldn't those people getting $55/hr think they should have $85/hr by the end of six years? Inflation! Even when they were promised a $15/hr wage inc by the end of that time period, they refuse, knowing what a massive strike would do to a nation already reeling from inflation and supply-chain issues.
You start to think, "Gee, if I just forget the stories for a second, all of the things happening sort of look the same as if an enemy was at war with us, and they were winning. Like, they'd just bomb the ports. They'd invade across a border. They'd do whatever they could to thwart insurgent warfare by pacifying the people."
This all feels like a massive false-negative diagnosis happening right now. And half of the population or more can't trust themselves to interpret anything around them except by getting their interpretations of the data from World News Tonight.
And fuck all if there's a guy found on Trump's golf course with a gun. That's a lot more interesting than whether or not we're the targets of our own government's internal warfare.
Don't bother responding. I've got TikToks to watch. Diddy is going down. It's gonna be big. REALLY BIG. It's not Epstein 2.0.
[ + ] JustALover
[ - ] JustALover 1 point 8 monthsOct 2, 2024 12:28:25 ago (+1/-0)
Just two more weeks!
Otherwise, I agree with you: wars are no longer fought on battlefields with guns, but via the womb, in the schools, in the unions, etc.
The enemy does not dress in camo and carry another nation's flag, but looks like everybody else, waving an american flag.