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Americans (and I sadly speak for all 300mm+ of us) no longer give a flying fuck about illegal wars or mass murder. There is no peace movement, there won’t be e

Americans (and I sadly speak for all 300mm+ of us) no longer give a flying fuck about illegal wars or mass murder. There is no peace movement, there won’t be ever again. Citizens will ignore the wars and entertain them selves by rage posting about either the red or blue team

anoncoward111 8y ago
I care a lot about the genocide and illegal wars :( I've written online under my real name and fake names, I've done deep original research, some of it gets fairly decent traction. I think we all actually are legitimately powerless to stop the war machine and the majority of Americans who actually support it... so the rest of us are lost to apathy.
- armenarmen 8y ago
  Good on you. I hope it takes. And yeah, I believe that we are legit powerless to do anything about it. No party is a peace/non-intervention party. I don’t think that most Americans support the war aspect of the machine. It’s apathy for some and learned helplessness for others.
  - mrleinad 8y ago
    Hey, if Assange/Snowden had ever believed they were powerless, we wouldn't be talking about them. Same goes for countless other figures throughout history. It's up to us who believe something else to convince more people and achieve critical mass, which will make the difference.
    - jacobush 8y ago
      Or if not achieve critical mass, just slow down the shit show.
jiveturkey 8y ago
our leaders have gotten smart and now make sure the general public doesn’t directly feel the pain of war. bush 43 told folks to go shopping. wars are fought in the abstract for most americans.
calibas 8y ago
People don't want wars, but they feel powerless to change things. And these feelings of powerlessness and hopelessness are perpetuated among society and create a self-defeating attitude.
- culot 8y ago
  Unless you plop them into a warzone, they won't truly care. In the US we are generally so far removed from the fracas of war.
pessimizer 8y ago
> There is no peace movement, there won’t be ever again. There's no draft, nobody feels any personal danger so they don't care - the peace movement of the 1960s was a direct result of young white men fearing the draft, deciding that made them an oppressed group, and looking to the recently successful black civil rights battles as inspiration to start marching and occupying places. Now, they just fear brown people in their neighborhoods, bombings by people who dress funny and write in squiggles, and international pedophile rings - things that, if anything, threaten them even less than wars they will never see. Some of them fear that wars and mass imprisonment will end, because they're employed in the industries that supply those things.

anoncoward111 8y ago

I care a lot about the genocide and illegal wars :( I've written online under my real name and fake names, I've done deep original research, some of it gets fairly decent traction. I think we all actually are legitimately powerless to stop the war machine and the majority of Americans who actually support it... so the rest of us are lost to apathy.

armenarmen 8y ago
Good on you. I hope it takes. And yeah, I believe that we are legit powerless to do anything about it. No party is a peace/non-intervention party. I don’t think that most Americans support the war aspect of the machine. It’s apathy for some and learned helplessness for others.
- mrleinad 8y ago
  Hey, if Assange/Snowden had ever believed they were powerless, we wouldn't be talking about them. Same goes for countless other figures throughout history. It's up to us who believe something else to convince more people and achieve critical mass, which will make the difference.
  - jacobush 8y ago
    Or if not achieve critical mass, just slow down the shit show.

jiveturkey 8y ago

our leaders have gotten smart and now make sure the general public doesn’t directly feel the pain of war. bush 43 told folks to go shopping. wars are fought in the abstract for most americans.

calibas 8y ago

People don't want wars, but they feel powerless to change things. And these feelings of powerlessness and hopelessness are perpetuated among society and create a self-defeating attitude.

culot 8y ago
Unless you plop them into a warzone, they won't truly care. In the US we are generally so far removed from the fracas of war.

pessimizer 8y ago

> There is no peace movement, there won’t be ever again. There's no draft, nobody feels any personal danger so they don't care - the peace movement of the 1960s was a direct result of young white men fearing the draft, deciding that made them an oppressed group, and looking to the recently successful black civil rights battles as inspiration to start marching and occupying places. Now, they just fear brown people in their neighborhoods, bombings by people who dress funny and write in squiggles, and international pedophile rings - things that, if anything, threaten them even less than wars they will never see. Some of them fear that wars and mass imprisonment will end, because they're employed in the industries that supply those things.