I’m gonna want a paper trail, so let’s just cut out the middle step and do it by email from the start

Fair enough…

All of the “nothing ever happens” people need to literally touch grass. Shit like this happens all of the time in major cities.

Not even comparable. Scroll up to the top and read the report from the British Government and then tell me that they’re the same.

Or is there an event in US history I wasn’t aware of where our military literally liquidized student protestors and swept the resulting sludge into storm drains?

but when it does it becomes massive news stories instead of being suppressed, and it is allowed to have ripple effects across politics and society instead of the government imprisoning anyone who mentions abuses.

To be fair, someone else replied to mention the Tulsa Race Massacre… Something that I (and every American I’ve spoken to about it) did not know existed prior to seeing the Watchmen TV series.

So…

we shout at minimum wage workers

Speak for yourself

I’ll even slip in a passive aggressive, “this is why I prefer emails” or, “maybe next time you can just send me this”

Some braindead Lemmy user trying to accuse me of being privileged from their mother’s basement

I love when people say this shit to me because it could only really ever sting if it’s true. When you’re a grown-ass adult who’s lived alone for over a decade, it kind of rings hollow. Nice try though.

You’ve also completely misrepresented my point so I’m not even going to bother continuing this.

Only zealots think like this.

This is the privileged take. So many people don’t have the luxury of not paying attention to politics because their very identity and public existence is being outlawed.