I’m always torn when I see comments like this because I agree our country needs all the shaming and rejection in order to drive the average American to act. The shaming DOES help-- it cannot be denied.

But at the same time, being working class American is so fucking brutal, and it’s FAR worse when you are part of a marginalized group.

I am American but I did not grow up in the US, and it’s so obvious they all have been robbed of their sense of community because we are all being constantly bombarded by fear mongering narratives meant to drive up profits.

For example, kids are expected to move out at 18 because parents are weirdly concerned that their children wil turn into lazy and unproductive members of society. In reality, life is much easier when multiple generations live in the same home because even if you get on each other’s nerves, they are all at least in the same team like helping raise the children together.

Instead, they want everyone to be independent from their families because that’s more people paying rent, buying cars, products and services-- same reason why Netflix doesn’t want you sharing your account: so they can sell your friends and family their own to drive those profits up.

What is happening to America is happening to other countries as well. It’s not a moral failing unique to Americans.

It’s just that Americans already had weak public institutions as a younger nation and a very painful history full of racism, genocide, and exploitation that already was causing us great difficulty coming together to make the country a better place for everyone, and billionaires saw that as an opportunity to turn us against each other and profit from our fears.

If you don’t help the good parts of America in our battle against the bad parts of America, we will lose and you will have yet another Russia making the problems in your own country worse and worse until find yourself in the exact same position as we are.

Get involved in local politics in your country now. Don’t wait.

We all need to unite and fight against the worse parts of humanity. We’re all so tired of capitalism and exploitation. We want better. Please help us put an end to it wherever you can.

It’s wasn’t my generation that sold them.

My generation is working hard at getting them back.

I believe in a better world, with less selfishness and cruelty, and I’m working hard to make that happen.

Our governments are bought and paid. We’re fighting to get them back, but it’s not going to be easy.

This is happening in all developed nations.

It’s an international crisis.

Do not conflate the people with the corporations.

And let’s not ignore the fact that many nations were happy to buy and profit until the USA government turned into a bargain sale for billionaires.

Ok, let’s say someone does walk up to me wearing overalls and a flannel shirt with a huge scraggly beard and says they identify as a woman.

How exactly does that impact any of us negatively?

Why can’t people call themselves whatever gender they identify as?

Explain to me what the problem with that is.

I love people from Finland.

You are all like seals, letting the bad vibes roll off your back.

Also, always nibbling on fish.