• spionspion@lemmy.ml
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    5 days ago

    I wonder how people were able to ever revolt and kill their masters when healthcare, etc is a pretty new thing.

    I think US americans are just lazy, complacent and do want all this

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      4 days ago

      You’re forgetting that the weaponry and surveillance are better now too.

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      4 days ago

      historically, revolutions have followed times of great hardship, where the working class (or peasantry if we’re going back further) had nothing left to lose. They also frequently had wealthy backers in the shadows and/or charismatic leaders.

      None of that is currently true of the U.S. If you want to call that laziness, fine, but then you have to recognize that humans were “lazy” for most of recorded history.

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        4 days ago

        Historically i dont think we had a country/a people that has been flooding the world for decades with propaganda that they are the good guys and believing it themselves. Americans were never too lazy to tell the world how awesome they are.

        Americans were also never too lazy to kill people. Probably only the easy kills. Hmm