20-01-2025. This is a real image

    • nepenthes@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      While I agree it looks like apathy has set in, maybe Luigi can be seen as a catalyst for change through action.

      Godspeed my USian neighbours.

      • djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Won’t happen.

        Americans are lazy bastards, and nothing makes them lazier than the cold. For as much as I admire Luigi, he will have thrown his life away for nothing. If he’d been a little bit sooner, or a lot bit later, maybe he could be a martyr. As is, he’ll be a footnote.

        What you would need is several copycat killers, with some getting away, during the summer when Americans are comfortable protesting. Even then, American protests have recently been toothless, and haven’t made any effect on politics ever since Trump took office in 2016.

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          Inspiration doesn’t expire, it breeds like hope. History happens slowly and through a culmination of events. A catalyst is the enabler of the future.

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      That is indeed the problem.

      Truth be told, it ain’t happening, but I get so sick of people shrugging it off and pretending that we don’t have a choice. We do

      It’s just that the majority would rather watch the system get tighter and tighter because they think the noose isn’t going to be around their necks.