if that truly is the case, then doesn't it seem odd that we're still going through the motions, still, in the Internet Age? why would dozens of people in this v

if that truly is the case, then doesn't it seem odd that we're still going through the motions, still, in the Internet Age? why would dozens of people in this very thread continue to openly applaud actions that they are fully aware are mere gestures and nothing but, as (they also well know) is and has always been just par for the course, out in the open for all to see? not only is it pathetic beyond reason, but it goes to show just how shallow and "actually just all in our heads" 99% of "politics" is. did any of the supposed doom and gloom that the previous President was supposed to be the harbinger of ever come to fruition? where were the conversion therapy concentration camps? where were the existential threats to Women and Science that necessitated political marches opposing such looming threats? or the President before that one, the First Black President. what did he end up doing for Black America, after eight years in office? are we supposed to look back on him fondly for all that he did for Black Americans, by virtue of getting elected President while Being Black, alone? is that really the level of gesture-accepting we're at, as a nation? as a species? https://twitter.com/i/status/1576916509766451200 https://twitter.com/i/status/1576916509766451200 it's almost as though almost (but not quite) 100% of contemporary "politics" exists solely within the confines of our skulls, transmitted via media disseminated through news organizations complicit in the perpetuation of an ongoing political regime, where the role of the citizen electorate is to play along with the professional wrestling-tier storylines presented to them, at face value, because they've established themselves as Authoritative Sources on The News, which gives them free reign to emotionally manipulate said citizen electorate at a mass scale—especially through the use of the absurdly powerful emotion of fear. if this is the case, why do we continue to play along with it, or at the very least consider it actively virtuous to play along with it? the house is burning but "this is fine"? how did it get to this?