It does a great job at portraying things as classically scary before subverting expectations by disarming them as humorous misunderstandings.

Literally just finished my first full watch-through hours ago. It was delightful!

America is a vastly different country now versus what it was during the civil rights movement. If Nixon got ousted for Watergate, imagine how short Trump's presidency would have been had he taken office in that era.

Our government today is not aligned with the interests of the general public. It serves the interests of a small subset of the populace and rallies broader support through authoritarian action against a propagandized enemy.

The reality is that this government will not be influenced by any protest we can realistically organize. Despite our 2A rights, the state has far more power than its citizens possess in arms. Economically, too many Americans are either too beholden to or dependent on the system to endure a general strike. A violent protest will turn the general public against the movement and give the state an excuse to crush dissent and make themselves out to be the hero.

These large, peaceful protests are not intended to directly influence the state to change policy but rather are designed to invite the public into a safe space with their neighbors and community where they are more receptive to the idea that we are oppressed by the system this state perpetuates and how we can realistically enact change. The midterms will be a measure of how effective this movement has been.

We had nationwide protests that turned violent with rioting and looting in 2020 under this same regime. It achieved no meaningful change but to turn public opinion against the movement. We're still recovering from the social trauma that caused and it's only given ammunition to the opposition. Portland, OR is still a pariah on the national scene due to the violence and looting that happened here in 2020 despite the last six years of adopting a more peaceful way of protesting.

The regime was unprepared for the violent response then but they are prepared for it now. A year ago they were doing everything they could to provoke a violent response, declaring blue cities as enemies within and deploying our own states' national guards against us. Our response was to turn out in large, peaceful numbers. It made this regime look foolish and they've since halted their deployment of the military against blue cities.

They need us to be violent so they can use it to turn the general public against us; and so we show up peacefully and "do nothing". As a result, they have no enemy to rally the general public against, their actions have no justification and public opinion of this regime is at record-breaking lows and is continuing to trend lower.

Lol, the irony of your username.

And yet nobody seems willing to acknowledge that America has just turned out a fourth largest protest in the nation's history over the last two years, mobilizing tens of millions of people with no significant reports of violence or looting.

I guess it doesn't count when organizers successfully create a peaceful environment that doesn't play into the hands of the fascists in our government who are looking for any excuse to enact martial law and suspend elections to establish their total and complete authority?

Of course its not, stop pretending it is

Yeah, that's literally my point.

As, so this is the shining example of protest so many of you have been insisting that Americans must replicate over the last couple years?

Can't tell you how many times I've heard, "you need to protest like the French" on here. How righteous they are indeed.

Easy fix, don't buy from Amazon.

I remember hearing about basically this literally a decade ago. Nothing's been done about it since then. Nothing will be done about it now. Not unless we make a fuss about it at which point they'll pretend to give a shit about us and make grand gestures towards transitioning away from receipts made from hazardous materials. Meanwhile, they'll continue to knowingly expose us to some other hazardous material for the next decade until some independent research team uncovers how it's slowly poisoning everybody who comes into contact with it. And thus the cycle continues.

Under capitalism, there is no incentive to do anything for the benefit of humankind when it comes into conflict with the ultimate goal of accumulating as much wealth for yourself as humanly possible. It will always corrupt.

It's great to see the Democrats have learned absolutely nothing and continue to refuse to evolve.

Imagine getting cancelled in 2026 for being a billionaire's bitch.

For reference, $10M is 1% of $1B. Jeff Bezos is worth $225B, so that would be 1/225 of 1% for him to foot the bill. Considering there are many other multi-billionaires living on that island, that brings our fraction of a single percent of their collective wealth closer and closer to effectively zero.

The greed of billionaires is unfathomable.

How insurance should work: Disasters are unpredictable, are bound to happen and can be very expensive to resolve. So instead of each individual risking bankruptcy for participating in a system, everybody pools together money at a much lower individual cost. That money goes toward a statistical guarantee that the cost of any disaster will be covered.

How insurance actually works (under capitalism): For-profit companies use every tool at their disposal, regardless of ethics or legality, in order to take as much of your money as they can possibly get away with while simultaneously paying out as little as they can possibly get away with, and then pocket the difference.

The left doesn't worship their politicians as the second coming of Jesus Christ son of God.

"I don't want to make this political"

What does that even mean in this context?

Democrats: "Understood. We must try harder to win over the center-right."

You can't make this shit up.