LEWISTON, ME—In the hours following a violent rampage in Maine in which a lone attacker killed at least 16 individuals and injured numerous others, citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass killing routinely occurs reportedly concluded Wednesday that there was no way to prevent the massacre from …
It will never be prevented in a nation where the mindless masses, spoon fed by propagandist media propped up by an oligarchy they flock in support of, continue to inflict mass poverty and anxiety on the population. People need to wake TF up and start blaming the billionaire and ruling elites that are let off the hook every time. When the fuck are they going to give us healthcare? When the fuck are they going to stop dancing on the backs of the population while their victims struggle to feed and house themselves?
Were it only so simple. Personally, I think that there are other causes, and that the oligarchy is as much a symptom of the disease as its cause. I saw a pithy comment on another post recently that the United States is the largest PvPvP… MMO in history. That is, we are a hyper-individualistic society, and we don’t do social connections and group solidarity well, if at all. Even our government social safety net is mostly holes, and designed to wear down and humiliate people who need it. Each person, or family, is on their own, sink or swim, and that’s a huge cause of the anxiety that grips, not only the poor, but everybody who’s not super-rich.
It also means that there’s nobody to extend a hand to people who are struggling, either to lift them up when they’re hurting, or restrain them when they might threaten the community. “Not my problem, Jack. 'Sides, I ain’t got time, got my own grist to grind.” Americans tend to regard fellow humans by default as a threat. You see it in the discussions of 15 minute cities, when people say that they hate other people and don’t want to live near them, or that public transit means getting stabbed, robbed, or raped. And, hell, there’s a whole U.S. political party whose only organizing principle is hate and fear of other people.
We lack the cohesiveness to create a society that benefits all of us, and that has allowed the oligarchy to arise and grow. Of course, they exploit this dynamic to stay in control, but I think that, like mildew, if we just scrubbed them from existence and didn’t address the environment that allowed them to flourish, they’d be right back in no time.
It’s pretty simple. The masses of blue and red idiots support their half of the oligarchical idiot coin and their half of the oligarchical, corrupt, propagandizing media. There will continue to be mass poverty and anxiety inflicted on the population, and continue to be people driven by the madness who lose it and kill others at random. You are a perfect example of the fake progressive refusing to assign responsibility to your masters. Get angry at the right people for once.
And, uh, what will that accomplish, other than raising my blood pressure?
Maybe, I personally believe the guns are also partly responsible. Maybe who knows ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
We also have no public healthcare and healthcare getting worse for the average person by the day. Do you think that could be related? Gun ownership has stayed static, there were a fuck load of AR style weapons in the 80s owned by the same communities of people. The mass shootings are not a symptom of gun ownership, they’re a symptom of a seriously sick population having mass poverty and anxiety inflicted on them by the billionaire and ruling class. The longer this continues to go unaddressed the more disturbed people will be generated and the more violence will occur.
Well, will you ever do anything about healthcare?
No? I thought so.
So begin banning the actual thing people are killing each other with.
They’re not going to give anyone healthcare. Make your own. Cost sharing nonprofits exist. Co-ops exist. Direct primary care exists.
Pathetic. They’ve got you beat down and you don’t even care. This is why you have mass shootings. Everyone is fine with the oligarchy inflicting mass poverty and anxiety on the population. Everyone just needs to pick themselves up by their bootstraps and they can become part of the billionaire class too right? GTFO
I’m not beat down, but I appreciate your concern.
Maybe not billionaire class, but you certainly can become part of the class with healthcare without that much effort without begging politicians to hand it to you (which they are not going to do anytime soon). Although in some sense, we’re all richer than the billionaires of only a few hundred years ago. King Louis XIV’s house was famously covered in human poop because efficient plumbing wasn’t invented yet and everyone just pooped in the hall. Lol