5 of 6 scheduled calls with Americans this week were blown off (forgotten) without notice.
-
5 of 6 scheduled calls with Americans this week were blown off (forgotten) without notice.
I'd say they're waking up at last. I hope so. No apologies needed! I can wait
Go friends go!
-
5 of 6 scheduled calls with Americans this week were blown off (forgotten) without notice.
I'd say they're waking up at last. I hope so. No apologies needed! I can wait
Go friends go!
The handful Americans I work with don't seem to understand that nothing is normal anymore, and that even the work relationship they have with me can no longer be taken for granted.
-
The handful Americans I work with don't seem to understand that nothing is normal anymore, and that even the work relationship they have with me can no longer be taken for granted.
@tg9541 it's amazing. I hear you. The ones I'm working with are pretty dang close to the fire and even some of them have taken until *last week* to use the word fascist without air quotes. Frogs in hot water with the meat just about to fall off the bone.
-
The handful Americans I work with don't seem to understand that nothing is normal anymore, and that even the work relationship they have with me can no longer be taken for granted.
@tg9541 @Tarnport I think part of being an American is having to go to work and pretend like everything is normal. We've had to do it for years, and if you can't do it, you lose your job or get told that you have a mental illness, etc. Since there's no safety net, if you want to eat and pay your rent, you have to keep working, no matter how horrible things are around you.
-
@tg9541 @Tarnport I think part of being an American is having to go to work and pretend like everything is normal. We've had to do it for years, and if you can't do it, you lose your job or get told that you have a mental illness, etc. Since there's no safety net, if you want to eat and pay your rent, you have to keep working, no matter how horrible things are around you.
@mk30 @tg9541 @Tarnport Yeah. I think a lot of people overseas see the (hoarded, concentrated) material wealth and don’t realize that even for some of the ostensibly middle class are in that position because they kept right on going to work with untreated broken bones, or ten days after giving birth, or while actively in fever delirium, because the alternative was homelessness and subsequent criminalization (for the crime of having no private property to retreat to.) Speaking up about it a lot of places will get you fired as an agitator. Even a lot of Americans who’ve never experienced the precarity firsthand will be dismissive of it because it’s so verboten to speak of that they have no idea how bad it is - while trying to get a sick friend housed (let alone any medical care) I’ve been treated to someone from this country explaining that people like my friend could “just go on Medicaid.” Which wasn’t even true before the new slate of restrictions and work requirements. The narrative of our lives visible domestically and abroad is manufactured and finessed propaganda.
Like the climate crisis, which somewhere between 80-89% of people agree on as an urgent threat, or as with trans rights or reproductive freedoms, which at least two thirds have consensus on, a majority are feeling it and yet think they’re in a powerless minority because money is speech. But unstable times actually tend to bring people together… as do technologies like fedi, where corporations can’t choose the bounds of permitted discussion.
-
@mk30 @tg9541 @Tarnport Yeah. I think a lot of people overseas see the (hoarded, concentrated) material wealth and don’t realize that even for some of the ostensibly middle class are in that position because they kept right on going to work with untreated broken bones, or ten days after giving birth, or while actively in fever delirium, because the alternative was homelessness and subsequent criminalization (for the crime of having no private property to retreat to.) Speaking up about it a lot of places will get you fired as an agitator. Even a lot of Americans who’ve never experienced the precarity firsthand will be dismissive of it because it’s so verboten to speak of that they have no idea how bad it is - while trying to get a sick friend housed (let alone any medical care) I’ve been treated to someone from this country explaining that people like my friend could “just go on Medicaid.” Which wasn’t even true before the new slate of restrictions and work requirements. The narrative of our lives visible domestically and abroad is manufactured and finessed propaganda.
Like the climate crisis, which somewhere between 80-89% of people agree on as an urgent threat, or as with trans rights or reproductive freedoms, which at least two thirds have consensus on, a majority are feeling it and yet think they’re in a powerless minority because money is speech. But unstable times actually tend to bring people together… as do technologies like fedi, where corporations can’t choose the bounds of permitted discussion.
@cwicseolfor I've known Americans from different walks of life for decades - the Internet and my job made that possible.
It's been two decades that I call the USA "the land of the brave and not so free"; most people I know don't understand what kind of suppression and abuse has been normalized, and how precarious, not just dependent, consumerism makes them. There are a few exceptions, of course.
-
@cwicseolfor I've known Americans from different walks of life for decades - the Internet and my job made that possible.
It's been two decades that I call the USA "the land of the brave and not so free"; most people I know don't understand what kind of suppression and abuse has been normalized, and how precarious, not just dependent, consumerism makes them. There are a few exceptions, of course.
-
@tg9541 @Tarnport I think part of being an American is having to go to work and pretend like everything is normal. We've had to do it for years, and if you can't do it, you lose your job or get told that you have a mental illness, etc. Since there's no safety net, if you want to eat and pay your rent, you have to keep working, no matter how horrible things are around you.
@mk30 @tg9541 @Tarnport And if you can't pay rent, you end up literally on the street since there's not enough shelter space or housing available. That's when politicians and local citizen groups demonize you, act as if your tent is a sign of visible crime, and your city forcibly evicts (and steals) your tent/belongings on a weekly basis even in the middle of winter.
-
P pearl22@troet.cafe shared this topic
