Aral Balkan on Nostr: People laugh when they hear “land of the free” but have you considered: - ...
People laugh when they hear “land of the free” but have you considered:
- You’re free to bomb other countries
- You’re free to be complicit in the genocide of Brown people
- You’re free to die of preventable disease because you can’t afford healthcare
- You’re free to get shot in your school (or anywhere, really)
- You’re free to pick from two whole genders
- You’re free to vote for either just fascism abroad or fascism abroad and at home
- You’re free to get fired without notice
- You’re free to eat things we won’t even allow on our shelves
- You’re free to delude yourself that the US wasn’t toxic before Trump because the other guys were smart enough to say one thing and do another instead of going full Dr. Evil
– The list goes on and on…
Not laughing now are we?
(Can we PLEASE, at the very least, not recreate this in Europe? See it as the huge freaking warning that it is and tell the venture capitalists and fascists who are over here, telling us that we must do as the US does, to fuck right off? Because the American Dream is a bloody nightmare and unless we can chart a different course ahead, I lament the future of humanity.)
Oh, and good morning. Hope you’re all holding it together. Despite appearances, all this makes me even more determined to get up every morning and work on trying to build an alternative to technofascism. And my solidarity to those of you at ground zero who are resisting. I can only imagine how much harder this is for you. Just remember you have friends in other places and we’re rooting for you.
- You’re free to bomb other countries
- You’re free to be complicit in the genocide of Brown people
- You’re free to die of preventable disease because you can’t afford healthcare
- You’re free to get shot in your school (or anywhere, really)
- You’re free to pick from two whole genders
- You’re free to vote for either just fascism abroad or fascism abroad and at home
- You’re free to get fired without notice
- You’re free to eat things we won’t even allow on our shelves
- You’re free to delude yourself that the US wasn’t toxic before Trump because the other guys were smart enough to say one thing and do another instead of going full Dr. Evil
– The list goes on and on…
Not laughing now are we?
(Can we PLEASE, at the very least, not recreate this in Europe? See it as the huge freaking warning that it is and tell the venture capitalists and fascists who are over here, telling us that we must do as the US does, to fuck right off? Because the American Dream is a bloody nightmare and unless we can chart a different course ahead, I lament the future of humanity.)
Oh, and good morning. Hope you’re all holding it together. Despite appearances, all this makes me even more determined to get up every morning and work on trying to build an alternative to technofascism. And my solidarity to those of you at ground zero who are resisting. I can only imagine how much harder this is for you. Just remember you have friends in other places and we’re rooting for you.