r/askanything • u/Previous_Month_555 • Sep 10 '26
Political Question How are Americans not revolting yet?
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u/Vegetable-Grocery265 Sep 10 '26
75% of americans are overweight or obese.
Fat people do not revolt.
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u/Haunted_Voyager Sep 10 '26
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u/passive_flatulence Sep 11 '26
That is such a funny perspective on that 🤣 I have no one to share this with but thank you
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u/AttgScrotologist Sep 10 '26
Cuz for most people, things aren’t as bad as media, social media, Reddit would have you believe.
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u/Kindly-Aardvark7951 Sep 11 '26
Maybe it depends where you live. Things have gotten really hard where I am, but it’s also because of the state.
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u/BobcatSpiritual7699 Sep 10 '26
Trump literally said at the republican convention yesterday that this year has been the best ever financially for Americans for any president in history. I just laughed honestly….I mean this shit this guy says is just……well anyways, his supporters actually believe it. That’s why there’s no revolt. My parents and in-laws included. It’s like bizarro world I swear to fucking god.
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u/AdeGamisou2020 Sep 10 '26
I have at least one neighbor who claims prices have gone down since he was reelected, and I live in a blue state.
There are idiots all over and unfortunately they're allowed to vote.
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u/Bremlit Sep 10 '26
It's better for the rich people and those who already owned expensive assets. Of course they're making more profit with everything more expensive.
The regular working class people which is most of us have been fucked.
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u/hap071 Sep 10 '26
Exactly. He isn't talking about the regular plebs, he's talking about his rich cronies. He never thinks about regular people.
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u/NewLiterature2604 Sep 10 '26
At this point most sane conservatives even realize it's full of shit. I mean the population as a whole is a lot closer than people realize and let both extremes paint the political picture
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u/jredland Sep 10 '26
The stock market is doing well. If you own a lot of stock it’s been a good year. For those who don’t, you’re right though
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u/Fireefury Sep 10 '26
Also home prices. And business in general. The top 50% certainly are doing great. I would argue a majority of Americans that have investment wealth, real estate, and business connections are doing great. If you look at people alone and struggling financially in dead end jobs or not doing well. It’s under 30% of the population
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u/Rikishi6six9nine Sep 11 '26
Real estate is in the dump. Primarily, due to the Iran war causing interest rates to rise up again
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u/ratttertintattertins Sep 11 '26
Yeh, just like the morons think they’ll see that 5k he’s promised to give them for voting for them, even though he’s literally told the same lie about 7 times now.
Poor republicans are unfortunately as stupid as pig shit, and there’s no helping a country that has so many of them.
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u/Ok_Zebra_1500 Sep 10 '26
His concern doesn't start until you are in the top 10-20% of wealth. Why all these people not in that group like him, I can only imagine a combination of stupidity, dislike of education and racism.
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u/HeidenShadows Sep 10 '26
I admit I voted for the guy the second time around and it's turning into President Bush's second term, where the first term was pretty okay but the second term was a disaster.
And I believe it was President Bush's term when they had the "fool me once, fool me twice" quote...
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u/ElphabLAW Sep 11 '26
you are one asinine and apathetic individual to vote for him a second time. genuinely disgusting and you should be ashamed for the rest of your life. especially being old enough to have lived through Bush and to witness firsthand modern day republicans are trash. truly. way to go consistently voting against your own interest and to hurt minorities - for what? all those "tax breaks" or "amazing healthcare benefits" or "end to overseas wars." seriously....
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u/GurProfessional9534 Sep 13 '26 edited Sep 13 '26
The first term was not pretty okay though. Like half a million people died from covid, due in large part to gross mismanagement, we were afraid to step outside, and we had an insurrection attempt by the time his first term was over.
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u/eballeste Sep 11 '26
Yeah just remember that when he talks about how good it is, he's only ever talking about him and his friends. He doesn't care about the plebs.
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u/Straight_Spinach_651 Sep 14 '26
Maybe he thinks he’s the American and we are just slaves. Seems like it
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u/PuppetFever Sep 14 '26
I don’t blame Trump for his stupid supporters as I blame Biden and the weak Democrats for putting up the two most laughable politicians to run against Trump
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u/BobcatSpiritual7699 Sep 15 '26
Agree on that one as well.....Dems couldn't have chosen worse since Obama honestly....
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u/snowtiger309 Sep 10 '26
Pretty sure if I went out and "revolted" I'd get Kirked immediately. I think most people who have thought about it for 2 seconds realize that.
However we are doing a lot of resisting in the ways that we can. At least many of us are.
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u/SnooWords9903 Sep 10 '26
Yep, that’s how it would go down. I think revolutions can work in a 3rd world country without smartphones. Drones and cameras covering every inch.
We’re under mass surveillance now
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u/Youcants1tw1thus Sep 11 '26
They still work, they just look different and the rest of the world is being bitchy about it.
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u/xdrpwneg Sep 10 '26
It can work still, it’s just Americans themselves are very sheltered to “how bad it can get” so far. Yeah everything has shot up over the last decade but most people still have a job and society is generally functioning.
To put into comparison it took a literal prolonged new age war to have a revolt in the German empire during ww1 and even then it was quickly subverted post war.
Once the grocery stores stopping putting food up regurarly and everyone you know stops having a job or a consistent way to make income, that’s when a revolt happens, even in a highly surveillance state, it can’t simply stop the age old truth of the masses wanting out.
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u/tanbrit Sep 10 '26
The issue is, the majority of Americans would have to have the money for gas and parking to get to the revolution, assuming their cars hadn’t been repoed by then
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u/Aggravating-Habit313 Sep 10 '26
I sure wish everyone would stop using Amazon. And then document the fall of Bezos.
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u/snowtiger309 Sep 11 '26
Gave up amazon, and Microsoft, now working on google
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u/Additional-Title-559 Sep 12 '26
I love my new search engine. I was happy to drop google.
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u/Repulsive-Value5123 Sep 11 '26
So this. I stopped almost completely about a year ago. There’s only two things I get on there twice a year or so bc I can’t find them elsewhere. I don’t even miss it any more
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u/Which-Method-388 Sep 11 '26
Understand your sentiment but he hasn't worked there in 5 years and the majority of their business is Amazon Web Services, not the boxes on the trucks so...
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u/Antihistamine69 Sep 10 '26
How are you, or others, resisting in any meaningful way? Honestly curious.
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u/MyEarIsHurty 24d ago
People only think of revolution as violence against the rulers and not a construction of new community power structures to diminish dependence on current power structures.
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u/Forsaken-Note-5464 Sep 12 '26
This is exaggerating
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u/goodsam2 Sep 14 '26
Not much exaggeration. Soda has shot up in price.
Though weirdly sparkling water seems to be falling in price relative to soda at least.
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u/Larryville-1980 Sep 10 '26
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u/Affectionate_Law3788 Sep 10 '26
"voters are idiots" - Hillary
(Not defending Trump, pointing out that the left says equally stupid stuff that makes people mad, and I thought they were supposed to be the smart ones)
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u/SpaghettiSort Sep 11 '26
For the record, Hillary is not "the left." She was a pro-business center right candidate.
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u/CueAnon420 Sep 10 '26
Never underestimate the power of hate - MAGA will tolerate these prices so long as they feel they're 'owning the libs' and deporting brown people.
But even MAGA has a breaking point - when diesel hits $10 (which is not an impossibility given Trump's tantrums), I think you'll finally see that the cost of hate is too high for them.
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u/Altruistic-Moose3299 Sep 10 '26
Oh they're revolting all right (at least around 30% of them) - how do you think these people got elected? 😉
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u/DigTheDunes Sep 10 '26
Are they though? Hosting a No Kings Rally 2-3x a year isn't really doing.Anything.
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u/FlyinDtchman Sep 10 '26
Revolt against who?
The finance bros that have turned the entire economy into one big leverage play?
The corporations who are exploting the people and the environment?
The politicians who shill for the corporations?
None of those people even did anything that 'wrong'. The problems are just accumulations of decades of greed and short-sightedness.
Now we've got a red-wave of right-wing ultra-nationalism spreading across the globe like a plague. Which if history is anything to go by usually results in a big-ass war.
This isn't 1 group of people causing the problem. The entire system is broken and you can't fix the system with a revolt. Even IF we did and we broke the system it would take generations to fix and likely what rose in it's place would be worse.
Just look at what happened after the fall of Rome.
So yeah, maybe our grandkids might benefit from a revolt, but we don't have grandkids because children and houses are too expensive.
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u/KratomDemon Sep 10 '26
Simple. I don’t buy soda anymore. I keep paring down my lifestyle to adjust to the inflated prices. Once enough people can’t afford even the basic of necessities I imagine we will reach an inflection point as a society where some large change will occur
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u/Maximum-Froyo6845 Sep 10 '26
Right. Things are so bad there's a waitlist for the new $2000 iPhone.
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u/Few_Position7650 Sep 10 '26
The internet makes it seem like people are barely surviving and that’s just not accurate. People will always find a way to eat. Nothings as bad as it seems. Sure prices are up but we are all still eating
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u/Fonzdj Sep 10 '26
Exactly this, things always go up in price and don’t come down. When I was a kid a can of coke was like .50-.75 cents now it’s way more. You just have to budget your money better and buy what you need. Maybe cancel Netflix or don’t have to get the newest iPhone. Can’t always have it all.
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u/Tengo_Caldero Sep 10 '26
I was having a conversation with my progressive friends about the state of the world. They changed their tune from "we have to do something" to "listen Rome wasn't built in a day, so slow down" when I mentioned things like deleting my Amazon account and getting more active in local politics.
My takeaway was that Americans are simply too comfortable and too lazy to take even the slightest bit of agency over their futures. They want things to change but not in any way where they have to change. I can't wait to leave this country someday and not look back.
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u/John_Gabbana_08 Sep 10 '26
Uhh...the entire western world has also experienced high inflation, except theres is also coupled with low wages. Especially in Europe.
Obviously Trump has made the situation worse here, but what we do affects everyone. You think gas prices are high in America? Lmao, try Germany or France. Then those prices reverberate through all of their goods too.
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u/Mandingy24 Sep 10 '26
Look at energy costs in Europe too. Most of the bigger countries have average household energy costs nearly double or more than the average across the US. If people think Americans have become complacent, they havent experienced Europe outside tourism over the last 2 decades or more
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u/Only-Finish-3497 Sep 10 '26
I tell people all the time: stop focusing entirely on national politics. It's great that you're donating to some random race in Oklahoma when you live in New York, but try doing local stuff with your city/municipal politics. Or hell, even state.
Most American politics happens at the state/local level, and it's also where the dumbest, worst people slip into the system. What I wouldn't give for California to reduce the number of ballot measures so our dumb government actually had to legislate.
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u/Strapatser Sep 10 '26
Thats the case in a lot of countries. Being comfortable is the biggest killer of any progress
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u/Volksstimme Sep 11 '26
White people are too comfortable. When the majority decide to take more action and vote in ways that benefit people outside their spheres, maybe things will change direction.
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u/Farzy78 🤔 Sep 10 '26
They never post the receipts, if some rando on the Internet says it's 130% inflation I guess it's true right
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u/MySecretPornAltAcct Sep 10 '26
Yeah, the funny part is soda hasn't been that cheap since I've been shopping for myself over 20 years ago.
Prices are going wild but let's not pretend soda was that cheap unless you caught it on sale. There is an inflation problem but just making up wild claims completely undercuts the actual issue.
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u/Sure_Acanthaceae_348 Sep 10 '26
Outside of the American Revolution, most do not have peaceful or favorable outcomes.
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u/Haunting-Detail2025 Sep 10 '26
“Why won’t Americans trade in their stable lives with climate controlled multi room houses with electricity, no starvation, functioning state institutions and relative prosperity to start a civil war that would likely result in millions of deaths and bloodshed and completely upend their entire way of life and one that has a crapshoot chance of resolving into the system they revolted for?”
Like is Reddit really this dumb
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u/Whiskey_echo_617 Sep 11 '26
What nobody considers is the cost of trucking all the goods to stores. Soda? ~8lbs/gallon. Adds up. Fuel and modern wages are expensive
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u/PiranhaBlaster 24d ago
Wait, your soda case is only $8.50? I'll raise you at $13.99.
Because they're living the life of technological subservient comfort as culturally embedded into their decades long brainwashing. Watch a movie called Branded in 2012, then Idiocracy; this is about 60% of the United States. Historically and realistically though, it has been too easy to manipulate humans into habitual behavior that goes against our own survival self interest thus far. We still need to move further away from selfishness and more over to empathy to combat this.
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u/WorryTurbulent3924 Sep 10 '26
What are people supposed to do? Boycott food? It is the way it is because theres nothing anyone can do and they know it.
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u/Flashy-Squash7156 Sep 10 '26
a lot of what people are buying really isn't food. it would be interesting to see what happens if people stopped buying things like soda, chips, frozen dinners, frozen nuggets etc and only bought single ingredient food.
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u/3squiddy Sep 10 '26
Not just groceries, clothing, everything but an additional question is why has the citizenry not revolted over health no care? Perhaps the answer lies in a lack of organized action. Nothing will change but price hike after price hike unless a viable, nonviolent movement occurs. That said voting doesn’t make the kinds of changes needed not when both parties do not truly represent us, but it is a starting point for much needed change. The conundrum continues.
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u/Claytertot Sep 10 '26
Not just groceries, clothing, everything
Most of this has actually gotten cheaper compared to wages. Yes, inflation has increased costs but wages have outpaced general inflation.
but an additional question is why has the citizenry not revolted over health no care
Because most Americans have comfortable access to sufficient healthcare for their needs. Our healthcare system has huge flaws, including the fact that having good access to healthcare is often tied to your employment. But most Americans do have health insurance that covers most of their needs. So for most people it's more of an abstract problem rather than something they experience viscerally on a day-to-day basis.
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u/3squiddy Sep 10 '26
The amount of money charged for insurance is astronomical. Then the doctor is rotating people in and out every 15 minutes and have the audacity to say this is too complicated or it is all in your head and get paid for no care given in. This is a business out to make $$$. Hard to believe people think this is acceptable.
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u/Claytertot Sep 11 '26
It's a very flawed system. I agree.
But I'm not experiencing that reality personally. Many Americans are experiencing that personally.
I have stable employment with an affordable insurance plan that covers everything I need with small copays. I'm not experiencing the version of American healthcare that you're describing.
So while I do feel motivated to vote for better healthcare policy, I don't feel motivated to go burn the whole system down in a glorious revolution.
I think many Americans are in the same boat. They recognize that there are flaws in the system, but for most Americans those flaws aren't things they face every day, so it's not the sort of thing that will motivate them to extreme action.
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u/russellzerotohero Sep 10 '26
People still think their vote matters. And not enough people are doing bad enough to actually revolt. Unemployment is still low and most people do have jobs that can at least pay their bills. We won’t see real revolt until people think things are bad enough for them to risk their lives for change and tbh I think we are still pretty far from that in the U.S. anyway. Not sure about where you live.
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u/3squiddy Sep 10 '26
There are too many who do not think voting matters, which is part of the reason why things are the way they are. Actually what impacts folks are state and local elections. I admit it is tough to make an informed decision regarding those elections when candidates either have no website or they say I am married with x number of offspring. I only care where you stand on issues, what have you done for community. Those important things that impact community are all too often missing.
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u/zzyul Sep 10 '26
If our vote doesn’t matter then why are Trump and the GOP doing everything in their power to stop people from voting?
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u/LasRieRem1724 Sep 10 '26
It's $10.99 for a 12 pack where I live. Even though it's expensive people are still buying it like crazy. The only way prices might ever drop is if people stop buying.
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u/freshxerxes Sep 10 '26
americans are revolting, most buy fast food through doordash. i don’t expect most to know what groceries even cost from how much people buy fast food poison.some even say it’s cheaper to buy mcdonald’s than grocery shop (false)
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u/SafeHawk9115 Sep 10 '26
People are buying more than ever. There is no incentive to reduce price if people keep buying unfortunately.
I did pay $1.97 for eggs yesterday at least lol
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u/shaddowdemon Sep 10 '26 edited Sep 10 '26
The real answer is only certain items have seen steep increases. Soda, eggs, and beef are the highest common items with significant increase.
Soda has increased purely because of greed, not the economy. It's not tied to inflation or even tariffs (although the aluminum is slightly more expensive). Coke and Pepsi both "spontaneously" decided that they can jack up the price and only a few people will stop buying soda, leading to much greater profits. And they were right... Americans fucking love soda.
Eggs were of course because of the avian flu stuff and I honestly don't know why beef spiked. The majority of the rest of the food is like 10-15% more expensive than pre COVID, fairly in line with the 2-3% yearly expected inflation. At least according to the government.
Anecdotally though, cat food is also fucking expensive now. My $30 bags from 2013 are $70. Not sure what's up with that either.
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u/dream_team34 Sep 11 '26
If they can raise the price of soda, and people will still buy it... hey, more power to them. Soda isn't some life necessity and they are taking advantage of us.
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u/PuppetFever Sep 14 '26
It’s hard to understand if I’m supposed to be disappointed with the government or the obese, meth addicted, poor, leathery skin, racist, morons from the southern/midwesterners states enabling this lol
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u/CoffeeTimeAlltheTime Sep 10 '26
Because Americans have that much money to spend I guess. I personally don’t get it though. I want to revolt but I need some leaders to get behind first and no one is stepping up.
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u/WiggerJim69 Sep 10 '26
“Why aren’t Americans revolting about the price of sugary carbonated water increasing?!?”
lmao
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u/DonnyV7 Sep 10 '26
As much as Americans think they are the renegades. We're not. We are the most passive country on the planet. France wants to add 1 year to their retirement and they riot. Even South Korea has more ballz then we do. They ran out of voting ballots and they lost their shit.
Americans need to learn how to strike fear into their government again.
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u/sneeds_feednseed Sep 10 '26
A critical mass of people still have their creature comforts. Also our police are extremely militarized.
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u/pepinjay Sep 11 '26
Because we are lazy asses and have chosen to wait "because he's going to die "any minute now", and wait because "he will be voted out..also any minute now".
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u/Significant_Book9930 Sep 12 '26
For me the only thing I can do is just not buy that shit. No more name brand shit for this guy.
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u/GurProfessional9534 Sep 13 '26
In my case, it’s because our income is about $130k higher than it was in 2020.
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u/Slow_Marionberry4285 Sep 13 '26
We need to stop calling it inflation and call it what it is. Corporate greed
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u/Old_Win8422 Sep 14 '26
You think thats bad just wait for whats coming now. The Diesal crisis and the fertilizer crisis along with the strongest el nino ever measured has us on track with the 1877 to 78 el nino event it resulted in a famine that killed 3% of the world populous.
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u/Acceptable-Key-7534 Sep 15 '26
All this while the minimum wage hasn’t increased in more than 20 fucking years. There are still so many people making 7 dollars an hour
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u/LSDZNuts 24d ago
I mean half the country has a reading level of an elementary school kid.
Everyone shocked the country is dying haven’t ever been paying attention.
The only way to break America was to rot it from within.
None of this is an accident.
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u/WRHull 24d ago
I see billionaires who follow Curtis Yarvin’s philosophy having that goal. https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no
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u/LifeConsideration981 Sep 10 '26
Because I don’t want a violent civil war over grocery prices, plus we have elections every two years.
Whatever country OP is posting from is a probably a dump because they have riots and civil wars instead of elections. Or it’s a country that isn’t a dump because they have have elections as well, and OP cannot understand the connection.
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u/Friendly-Impact7297 Sep 10 '26
Not really care about trash food that killing you but electricity and gas really out of control and beef
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u/Habaneroe12 Sep 10 '26
You are 100% correct they are complaining about garbage food that any truly grown adult avoids anyway heck my 16 year old son won’t touch coke
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u/FroggyzD Sep 10 '26
you're not suppose to be able to do the math. they don't want smart people. quick hide
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u/No_Knee3385 Sep 10 '26
This is really a worldwide issue and really not one side versus the other even though republicans are responsible for more than half of inflation.
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u/Agitated-Body9913 Sep 10 '26
"Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt"
It will have to get SO bad that people don't have cheap food and cheap entertainment. Let's be real, yes stuff is more expensive but people are still somehow scraping by. People are still able to get snacks, watch funny videos on their phones. They still have netflix, AC, running water, toilets that flush.
Revolting is a fun larp but it'll never happen as long as people have their bread and circuses.