• there1snospoon@ttrpg.network
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    8 months ago

    The problem is people will still do nothing about it so long as it doesn’t directly affect them.

    Politicians have been insanely successful at making people not give a damn about others for a long time now. Unless the Federal democracy is attacked, I doubt people will do much elsewhere.

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      8 months ago

      so long as it doesn’t directly affect them

      It’s kind of insane how we’re at the point where this would affect about 50.7% of the population or more, yet rhetoric towards oppressing this group is popular and competitive in the political sphere. What collective delusion do people need to have to think that “oh, If I, or my wife or my friends ever need an abortion, they’ll treat it as a special circumstance/exception”???

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        8 months ago

        Because there is no collective social/class consciousness in America. It’s all zero-sum, win at all costs, second place is first loser. You can’t afford to care about the stranger but the idea of safety nets and socialist public policies is demonized constantly as either weakness or deliberate theft.

        Everyone here would rather risk hurting themselves than helping someone else at their own expense.