So many resources are deployed with the aim of making Americans afraid of each other and the world. This polarizes people, who get very heated and expend huge amounts of energy spitting vitriol at each other to no effect, which has the very intentional side effect of making politics so uncomfortable (and seemingly unproductive) to think or talk about that many people who can afford to do so just tune it out, which allows politicians to get away with even more heinous shit because it’s what’s expected of politicians anyway. It’s a pretty elegant, if dismal, system :/

Poverty for me means losing access to the medicines that keep me alive, or I would be right there with you. I wish I could just be a hobbit subsistence farmer so bad but I got bills 🥲 So I keep turning the crank until another option becomes viable.

Oh lord, this one got me good ❤️

I wasn’t really sure whether to post this here as it’s not strictly news or politics, but it does cover US history up to the 2020 election so I hope it’s close enough, and I think it’s interesting enough to warrant discussion. Pretty new to Lemmy so if it’s not fit for this channel LMK and I’ll take it down.