@NiveusLepus: I hear that every time, and alas, it usually winds up smoke. I understand the feeling and do respect the enthusiasm, though.
@thedisasterautist I have learned that existence and survival on its own can be an act of defiance.
As long as I am here, as long as I can help, I can do something. It might not be the scope of change i want, but I can make it better by degrees.
Together, we change the world, centimeters at a time perhaps, but those centimeters matter.
@NiveusLepus: I understand that. I was more referring to the militaristic, gung-ho style relayed in the graphic. Everyone gets all riled up on the endorphins in the moment, and then as the hours and days pass that energy dwindles, requiring some outrage farming to keep going. This increases stress and impatience, which then must be countered WHILE continuing to farm endorphins to maintain the energy, and eventually it becomes nothing more than the energy to be angry and disgruntled at how...
@NiveusLepus: ...much nothing is being accomplished but the all-capsing on social media and letting everyone know how angry they are and what they're gonna do... one day... when the day comes... and when and if they day finally arrives, they're running on fumes, which leads to more stress... and worse if and when they do not prevail or prevail enough because by that point they require perfection as a result. If not, the cycle starts over again.
@NiveusLepus: I'll put it this way and far more succinctly:
Everyone talks a mean game about resisting and standing up and being counted, but there was only one guy that did this...
@thedisasterautist Only one, and he has gone on to inspire the world, even though we don't know his name, or his ultimate fate.
That one moment, changed things far more than he could have ever imagined.
@NiveusLepus: My point was that it's usually only one person who Actually Shows Up... or perhaps a handful, when the shit actually goes down.
Everyone else stays home to "spread awareness" and to let everyone know THEY support the revolution or whatever and have supported it since day one.
Very few Americans on the Left tend to show up by their own volition when it counts. It takes a lot to move the middle of the bell curve. Most aren't the outliers they wish they were.
@thedisasterautist And this cycle will repeat until the anger translates to momentum.
@NiveusLepus: Social media and the 24/7/365 news cycle inhibits it. Both drive impatience and backfootedness. You can't coordinate and plan meaningfully when information is chaotic, coming in from every direction, full of distractions, and everyone is hung up on "Now! Now! Now!" and addicted to endorphin hits from the constant news barrage, comments barrage, and screams for immediacy. Easy AF to derail that fucktangle.
@thedisasterautist I see your logic, and your math, but I'm not certain if we're seeing the whole of the process just yet.
There is a groundswell of discontent out there that is growing by the day and by the decision, and I am quite interested in seeing how the next election cycles and what not will shake out.
I'm wondering, more and more if those saying the US will balkanize may have it right. There do seem to be two specific camps emerging.
@NiveusLepus: The whole process stretches back to the late 1970s. And that even has roots in things that were happening in the 1920s and 1930s. Contributing factors entered the fray because of WW2 and the 1950s. What we are dealing with isn't only the result of a groundswell but of economic truths that were faits accomplis known and discussed immediately after WW2 but took back seat to the Cold War, and they were never picked back up by either Ds or Rs because it'd interfere with their...
@NiveusLepus: ...respective, competing political narratives. It both exacerbated and was exacerbated by social and political at home and abroad in the 1960s and 1970s. The Ds caved first, after the colossal win of neoconservatism in 1980s, and so they went neoliberal, which was conservatism lite. They blew the same old Leftie whistles but then steered hard "center" on execution, if they managed to get things done. They preferred wins via the bench because then they didn't have to be on-record...
@NiveusLepus: ...for actual legislation. So when SCOTUS verdicts were overturned they could express outrage and not be blamed for the can they kicked down the road.
America is really a fairly conservative nation. It always has been. A lot of its "Leftists" are really Leftist for certain issues and not for others, and that comes out at the polls despite what people say/write.
@NiveusLepus: The US is balkanizing and has been since the 1990s, when the GOP first made its Big Play with the "Contact with America". They moved as a bloc, and that's been the path since. That's what's driving things. When a large group circles the wagons, so do the others.
@NiveusLepus: I am myself a fan of deliberation and as such am and always have been highly unfashionable, even though my batting average on things is quite high, not that that does any good.