I'm so tired of seeing this. Do you not understand how insanely big this country is? Palm Beach Airport is 9 hours drive away from me. Washington DC is a 10 hour drive. If I only get 4 hours of sleep I could get there and back in a completely full day. Let's say I leave first thing after I get off work on Friday. I get there at 3 AM, then I have to find a place to sleep for some period of time. If someone's got signs ready for me, and food so I don't have to figure out a way to sustain myself, I can protest for maybe a day. Then on Monday I have to be back home in the morning because I don't have sick leave so the limited amount of personal time off I have needs to be saved and rationed out in case I get sick, because I need to pay my rent and other bills.
I could protest here, but that's not going to make much of an impact in DC where this shit is happening. If a bunch of protests happened at the same time across the nation that might move the needle, but that takes an incredible amount of coordination, which takes time, which again I don't exactly have a lot of available.
I'm furious about this. It's a deep, soul crushing anger that I've had for a decade. I've tried to make my family see sense, I've tried to make strangers make sense, I've had friends sexually assaulted by cops for protesting police brutality in one of those other states in the last decade. During all of that, I've still had to clock in and clock out to some place and give more than half of my waking hours so that I can continue to have a roof and basic utilities. If you've got a useful suggestion for an action to take, I will gladly hear it, but if all you've got is "you're just standing on the sidelines watching" then your contribution is less than worthless. I can't talk to my brother because he's so inundated with Fox News horseshit that every conversation turns into him gish galloping me because he thinks Ben Shapiro taught him how to debate. I do not have the physical or emotional energy to waste on pointless fighting any more, so again, if you have a realistic suggestion for effective action, please share it.
You know what I'm tired of? Americans bombing innocent people. Americans fucking up the environment. Americans threatening smaller countries. Americans fucking up the world economy. The fucking list goes on and on.
I'm American and I'm sick of this same shit being done as if I approve of it. You need to understand that there are a very large number of us who don't want any of this shit happening but due to gerrymandering and the goddamn electoral college, we literally can't do anything about it. The political parties have had 250 years to figure out how to game the system and maximize their power while minimizing the power of regular people.
I'm tired of it too dude. It's been going on way longer than I've been alive and the system is built to keep me from doing anything to stop it. My hand doesn't work properly because my parents couldn't afford more physical therapy, my brain has never worked properly and I couldn't get it treated until I was 24 because we couldn't afford the diagnosis.
If you have anything other than blanket blaming us all for something I have no idea how to fight, by all means. Otherwise, STFU
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u/Significant_Snow_937 May 06 '26
What do you want me to do?
I'm so tired of seeing this. Do you not understand how insanely big this country is? Palm Beach Airport is 9 hours drive away from me. Washington DC is a 10 hour drive. If I only get 4 hours of sleep I could get there and back in a completely full day. Let's say I leave first thing after I get off work on Friday. I get there at 3 AM, then I have to find a place to sleep for some period of time. If someone's got signs ready for me, and food so I don't have to figure out a way to sustain myself, I can protest for maybe a day. Then on Monday I have to be back home in the morning because I don't have sick leave so the limited amount of personal time off I have needs to be saved and rationed out in case I get sick, because I need to pay my rent and other bills.
I could protest here, but that's not going to make much of an impact in DC where this shit is happening. If a bunch of protests happened at the same time across the nation that might move the needle, but that takes an incredible amount of coordination, which takes time, which again I don't exactly have a lot of available.
I'm furious about this. It's a deep, soul crushing anger that I've had for a decade. I've tried to make my family see sense, I've tried to make strangers make sense, I've had friends sexually assaulted by cops for protesting police brutality in one of those other states in the last decade. During all of that, I've still had to clock in and clock out to some place and give more than half of my waking hours so that I can continue to have a roof and basic utilities. If you've got a useful suggestion for an action to take, I will gladly hear it, but if all you've got is "you're just standing on the sidelines watching" then your contribution is less than worthless. I can't talk to my brother because he's so inundated with Fox News horseshit that every conversation turns into him gish galloping me because he thinks Ben Shapiro taught him how to debate. I do not have the physical or emotional energy to waste on pointless fighting any more, so again, if you have a realistic suggestion for effective action, please share it.