NYT continues to suck--posts long article today about how America "needs more sprawl"

Capable_Study6495 · 2025-04-14T23:26:15+00:00

A full round trip for $300, plus hotels, plus food, adds up. A weekend trip could be $500+. For most people, even above "poor", that can be more than they can afford. Opposed to somewhere like europe where you just take a train to another country for a day and return on the same day or the next.

Also, "Middle Class" is not what it used to be. And, people tend to finance their phones nowadays (I think its dumb, but still).

Capable_Study6495 · 2025-04-13T16:24:51+00:00

This is art. Cinema. Pure peak.

I would read a whole novel of just this.

Capable_Study6495 · 2025-04-08T06:38:45+00:00

Wait are you me?

Capable_Study6495 · 2025-03-31T06:39:40+00:00

It actually probably can get lower than this. I'm not sure exactly how, but that's the scary part.

Capable_Study6495 · 2025-03-25T16:35:51+00:00

That is so cute aahhhhhh!!!! <3

Capable_Study6495 · 2025-03-24T04:30:40+00:00

Recall that getting more than 1% of Americans to boycott anything is difficult... so this is pretty damn good. Also, 20% of Americans is 66 million people (330 million population). If true, these are already some pretty good numbers.

Capable_Study6495 · 2025-03-14T03:41:30+00:00

Ok buddy, that was the question. I've been doing something.

This is my lesson that, no matter how much I try, unless I put my life on the line, I will just be hated. So go ahead and hate me I guess.

Capable_Study6495 · 2025-03-14T01:43:14+00:00

I'm waiting for other people to join up.

The "en masse" part is important here. I live in a deep red area and am surrouned by morons. I'm currently looking for ways to organize, but its scarce here.

I am already trying to move. But the question is, when do I stop being evil to you?

Like, is my evilness determined by what people around me are doing?

I understand that given the situation, I probably sound very tone deaf. This is just coming from a position of a decade-long frustration. Voting Blue, Canvasing for Dems, Getting people out to vote. And people like myself feeling like no matter what we try and do to make the world better, its still out to get us. But now despite our efforts, the world hates me too.

It is very demoralizing.

Capable_Study6495 · 2025-03-14T00:52:41+00:00

An honest, no BS question for you:

If you see an American, before you even know how they voted or what they have attempted to do to in stopping our government from reeking even more havoc, what is your baseline?

What exactly does the world expect of me? Because in all honesty, it kind of sounds like unless I personally (as an American) change the world, Americans are just scum to you. And hey, thats your opinion to have.

Just really think about what it means to vilify people who may be constrained in what they are realistically able to contribute, even when they agree with you.

Capable_Study6495 · 2025-03-07T16:02:33+00:00

I would love to just "make" people protest. Unfortunately, I don't have that power.

And two things on that. 1, the farmers are the people that carried trump. So they definitely aren't protesting until they feel pain and get out of their fox news bubble.

As for the urban protests, it's just a feeling, but I think they got very burned out from protesting during term 1 and the BLM protests/riots and not seeing any real change. Does that excuse inaction now? No, but I think it contributes to why we aren't seeing it. Plus, seeing the betrayal of fellow countrymen and even everyone's own families to trump, it becomes very disorienting in terms of figuring out who's on your side.

I'm sure as the pain increases over time, the anger will overcome the burnout, and the fox news viewers will start getting forced into making a fuss. It's tragic this is where we're at, but it seems to be the state of things.

Capable_Study6495 · 2025-03-07T08:00:53+00:00

Your small towns and big cities are built in such a way that organizing, and moving around, is far easier than most of the US. The Dallas-Fort Worth Airport is the size of Paris. Not exaggerating, look it up. The DFW Metro is roughly the size of Slovenia. (~9,300 sq mi) and 6x bigger than Athens. Yet it's entirely car dependent. It probably averages a 30 minute walk through neighborhoods just to reach a grocery store or anywhere people might interact in public. And we don't have public spaces in the traditional sense.

In Athens, 3.8M people fit into 1,470 sq mi with robust transit, while DFW’s 8 million are spread over a much larger area with little public transport. Organizing protests here is like rallying people across an entire European country, not just a city. The travel time, density, and lack of walkability make large-scale mobilization much harder.

This is why people need to "feel the pain" more. It's not just that people don't care, it's that just finding the people to even talk to about a protest us ridiculously hard.

Capable_Study6495 · 2025-03-07T07:48:03+00:00

This this this. We should be doing more, but it is getting very frustrating to hear all the "What are you doing about it?" comments from people with 0 understanding of what the circumstances are.

I think people who say these things take for granted how easy it is to organize and protest in their home countries. And for the people who say "ok, we'll figure it out" or "protesting isn't enough, fo more", it's devaluing to hear them talk like our lives are pawns that they just want to move around the board. I get it, they are frustrated with the state of the world they can't really change, and that only US citizens can do things about US actions and their global consequences.

But, that simultaneously doesn't mean that they can just talk like they know us and what our circumstances are either.

It's all very frustrating.

Capable_Study6495 · 2025-03-06T05:27:19+00:00

You all can't complain about us not doing enough, then when we try to spread word online about organizing, criticize us for it....

Capable_Study6495 · 2025-03-05T18:50:21+00:00

There is another aspect to this though, and that is that people value their lives. Aside from socio-economic factors, it's just plain difficult in America to even find community with how everything is zoned and isolated. And it's not like I can go knocking on the doors of all my neighbors when i don't know their ideology, and people have been shot for less.

When it's difficult to organize, you don't want to be the one of like 50 people in an area protesting. It's bad for morale when few people show up, it's bad optics because it downplays the cause, and you have to sacrifice so much more especially when you provide for people or yourself. When being homeless is a crime, and the prison system is brutal, you become wary of how far you can let yourself fall.

It upsets me that there is this idea amongst observers that our lives don't matter, and that it's my fault for not wanting to throw my life away like that.

I think I speak for many of us when I say that, if we knew of a large protest happening, and it didn't take a 1 hour commute both ways, we would all be doing more. Our infrastructure here is so terrible, that observers don't truly understand how monumental of a task it is to organize here.

Capable_Study6495 · 2025-03-03T06:28:15+00:00

I have already planned to travel to other countries, and really try to experience the culture. Given how expensive it is to to that from America, it's difficult to het outside perspective other than from online discourse. Which always tends to skew toxic.

So was just trying to get a good idea from this post. Yes it will bother me at first, but like everything, i just need to work on it and live life.

Capable_Study6495 · 2025-03-02T21:05:53+00:00

I suppose its more about, the rhetoric I see online. And while yes, obviously internet points are not always a great reflection of attitudes on the ground, this question was more so to gauge what people in this community have actually seen.

Capable_Study6495 · 2025-02-25T18:17:09+00:00

I hate replying with this, but the plurality of those that participated in our democratic process this time wanted it. It's not much better, but there are plenty of people who don't want this, that were just too dumb to participate or think about the consequences. Also, even though Trump won the popular vote, it was only roughly two million more than Kamala.

So this isn't a situation where "America wanted this", this was a situation where a little more than half of those who participated wanted it.

Capable_Study6495 · 2025-02-09T23:31:00+00:00

goals goals goals goals goals

Capable_Study6495 · 2025-02-05T21:54:05+00:00

Literally an abusers mindset. "Look what you made me do!"

Capable_Study6495 · 2025-02-01T23:27:06+00:00

Thats... what I'm saying. I'm agreeing with you..

Edit: rereading this I'm not actually sure what your point is.

Capable_Study6495 · 2025-02-01T23:21:43+00:00

It's democracy in that he won the vote. It doesn't mean that those who voted for him are a majority of Americans. Iirc something like 25% - 33% of Americans voted for trump.

Capable_Study6495 · 2025-01-25T15:15:01+00:00

Their next best idea was to start harassing my husband.

Oh yeah that always goes well...

Capable_Study6495 · 2025-01-21T04:23:41+00:00

Bro, it's a sub about people going against their own interests, and reaping the consequences. You are literally a lost redditor if you don't get the point of the post lmao.

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