20-01-2025. This is a real image

  • nepenthes@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    While I agree it looks like apathy has set in, maybe Luigi can be seen as a catalyst for change through action.

    Godspeed my USian neighbours.

    • djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      9 hours ago

      Won’t happen.

      Americans are lazy bastards, and nothing makes them lazier than the cold. For as much as I admire Luigi, he will have thrown his life away for nothing. If he’d been a little bit sooner, or a lot bit later, maybe he could be a martyr. As is, he’ll be a footnote.

      What you would need is several copycat killers, with some getting away, during the summer when Americans are comfortable protesting. Even then, American protests have recently been toothless, and haven’t made any effect on politics ever since Trump took office in 2016.

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        9 hours ago

        Inspiration doesn’t expire, it breeds like hope. History happens slowly and through a culmination of events. A catalyst is the enabler of the future.