I think this ties into America's social affluenza that a lot of people don't believe voting is about distributing power and is just social signaling because they truly believe that a government can't fuck everything up - ThreadSky

unavaleable.bsky.social • 40 days ago

I think this ties into America's social affluenza that a lot of people don't believe voting is about distributing power and is just social signaling because they truly believe that a government can't fuck everything up

Reposted from Reconstructionist

So many people in this country think that voting is merely a la carte social signaling and you can like pick and choose what you support, but that is, in fact, not how anything works

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megaweapon5.bsky.social•40 days ago

Explains Stein voters just as well as it explains Trump voters like this guy.

unavaleable.bsky.social•40 days ago

A bunch of people holding hands shouting "worse things aren't possible"

kylerich035.bsky.social•39 days ago

Worse things aren’t just possible, they’re the norm across thousands of years of human history!

richardofyork.bsky.social•40 days ago

Two immutable truths I believe about Americans is that it’s too easy to make a lot of money and there’s a real entitlement of experience that we collectively feel - when the latter was threatened in 2020, a lot of the country lost their fucking minds.

Look out when both are at risk.

occamshavecream.bsky.social•40 days ago

Well, don’t look now, but

chrononaut.bsky.social•39 days ago

Way too many Americans believe that "the news" and "political consequences" is something that only happens to others
https://bsky.app/profile/chrononaut.bsky.social/post/3lhh6nhzp3s2e

parisien.gay•39 days ago

And the last Trump administration only reinforces this idea in their minds

cameroncorduroy.bsky.social•40 days ago

i don't even think it's that they believe a government can't fuck everything up

their idea of "fucking everything up" is like the 2008 recession or Vietnam

a quality of life worse than that of a G7 nation is literally incomprehensible to the American mind, actual poverty is basically Lovecraftian

cyneheard.bsky.social•39 days ago

Meanwhile the admin is speedrunning 2008 x10, Vietnam x10, and the Spanish Flu Epidemic simultaneously.

cameroncorduroy.bsky.social•40 days ago

vaccines are the easiest example of this

people think vaccines are just flu shots, mitigating minor inconveniences

disease being a thing that kills kids isn't even a thought that registers in our brains despite it being the leading cause of child mortality for like all of history

maxdubler.com•39 days ago

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that anti vax sentiment has risen dramatically just as people who experienced polio firsthand are all dying off.

hrseldom.bsky.social•39 days ago

Hand in hand with the rise of fascism and Nazi acceptance. WW2 Vets are almost all gone.

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