do public seccurity cameras exist though? In the US, we have cameras watching the movement of cars thru the road network via license plate. It's dystopian
I'm noticing a certain level affluence in the left image. I wonder if people from poor families in that time period would look as fondly at a time before radios.
I can't imagine a more common perfunctory part of meeting someone new than asking about their occupation to the point that articles get written encouraging people not to for a variety of reasons. "Lets stop defining people by their occupation" etc etc.
If our country finishes it's transition to fascism and I did nothing to stop that, I'll have to own that. Inaction will lump me in with the fascists. Neutrality makes me a guilty party; for evil to triumph, all good men must do is nothing. History isn't kind to collaborators regardless of their reasons.
These people are all willing to play shows in the US, why wouldn't you expect them to play in Saudi Arabia? Sounds like living in denial about our own country. Like the concept of blood diamonds; money from software made in the US has funded conflict all over the globe but no one called it blood software. We used to export soybeans and used the money to bomb foreigners and no one called em blood soybeans.
Moral failings are always some other countries problem, we're the shining city on the hill remember? /s
Well, it is a thing but it's also an integral part of being human rather than a "culture" that's somehow new. The difference is that it's a power wielded by the people now rather than tastemakers putting people on a blacklist.
Comedians have been making fun of politics my whole life. Not always what I would call taking a side but at the least calling out whatever foolishness was on the news cycle.
We have school shootings because we live in a deeply diseased society; a corrupt and rapidly corroding end-stage capitalist oligarchy. We no more need gun prohibition to solve the problem then we need a massive police state. What we really need: Affordable housing, fair compensation for work, universal health care (including dental and mental health), affordable childcare, suitable free time for leisure, affordable cultural activities, public events that build a sense of community, political reform, media reform, an end to exploitation in any sphere of life. Build a health society and you'd be amazed how many of our problems just melt away but instead Billionaires insist on bigger mansions and yachts.
And the rest of you're points are no points at all. Constantly disproven by history and current events.
Ok, but fascism is wildly popular in the USA right now.
Yes, we're a fascist country now.
But more to the point, brining up a country that was founded on Genocide of Native Americans to argue that we shouldn't speak ill of a country founded on Genocide of Palestinians is wild.
a few terrible people in power have sway with a vast number of easily led racists
This describes both Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. Again, weird take unless you're pushing for us to drop the Nazi label from 1933-1945 Germany.
do public seccurity cameras exist though? In the US, we have cameras watching the movement of cars thru the road network via license plate. It's dystopian