Going by experience here, the American WILL question this idea the very seconds the foreign has a diverging opinion or calls them out on something.
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Looking at US politics from across the pond, there seems to be a healthy dose of activism, except it's exclusively online.
Unfortunately nowadays this is totally irrelevant, because it's so easy to counter by anyone with money to burn.
When people have actually gathered (mostly unions) they have found success.
Judging by the backlash I saw online on that butter recall because of the missing "contains milk" statement, it seems like few will miss the regulations.
In the long run, looser regulations could prove to be a Darwinian solution to most current issues.
Ah yes the embodiment of the French Revolutionaries spirit. Paraphrasing the slogan, wasn't it something like
"wake me up my brothers after the king gets beheaded, why would I go out with my pitchfork if nothing's gonna happen".
That was a wild rabbit hole...
The Beagues paid 15 cents for [their infant son's] stamps and an unknown amount to insure him for $50, then handed him over to the mailman, who dropped the boy off at his grandmother’s house about a mile away.
Wow how did they get this photo of a moving subject in a camera from the 30's. I'm impressed
Wow, you totally misunderstood the whole issue?
The point of China subsidizing their industry and their universities isn't so that their people can "buy a new car every year or two" because they're cheap.
It's because that way they progress their technology and manufacturing infrastructure so much that no one else can compete. They chase everyone else out of the market, while their companies pull in massive profits and keep the high paying jobs for their citizens.
Well paid workers can buy their own housing without government assistance, but what happened to all those tax benefits the US gov handed out for EVs? They catapulted Musk's wealth, while the workers are nowhere closer to affording an EV, or a home, or even healthcare.
I don't know if this is a criminal charge, but if it is, then this is the answer right here.
A couple of months behind bars would be a brutal wake up call to billionaires that money can't buy everything.
Of course they'd just double down on buying more politicians and judges.
Entire religions have been founded on lesser revelations.
Gotta appreciate the level of commitment on this commit...
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Too small, but an interesting example.
In many countries, and across history, universities are the breeding ground of anti-establishment protests. Young people with a strong desire to change the world, not yet shackled by the burdens of society and all that.
Except that in the US, students are chained down with massive debt they can't escape from, so that they can be kept on a leash.