Just because the US isn’t a carbon copy of Russia doesn’t make us better or any more free. We get screwed all day every day and have become comfortable in the subliminal ways we are fucked over by our government. This is exasperated by a huge gap in quality of life/ the ‘American’ experience of those below the poverty line and the rich, the experience of POC vs non POC, and many other filters of oppression…. it’s easy to dismiss claims like mine because it’s also easy shelter away from the dark side of the American experience if afforded that luxury.
As a US citizen I worry that what is happening overseas will be exploited as propaganda and used to further brainwash our citizens into continuing idea that ‘Merica’ is the greatest, freedom loving place on the planet and we are selfish, spoiled, entitled, and un-woke for being dissatisfied with the status quo. I hope the progress we made from the pandemic in finally standing up for ourself and demanding better pay for example is not lost in anti ‘commi’ propaganda….
For those in the U.S. living paycheck to paycheck, with less than 200 in your bank account, with unimaginable student loan debt at an entry level job, to the teacher who gets paid less than the manager at Walmart to raise—I mean babysit—I mean teach 28+ bad ass kids, to the single parent who makes to much for affordable housing but not enough for increasing rent, to the person living in their car, to the 25+ yr old still living at home working full time but still can’t afford to buy a house, to the mother who can’t afford to give birth to her child in a hospital—-your experiences are valid. When you complain and someone says “at least you are not in Ukrainian” fuck them. Fuck Russia, Fuck the American dream, fuck communism, fuck capitalism.