cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/60869500
The timing of the boat’s arrival in Seattle and the job cuts was coincidental, but the irony was not lost among the people who hustled down to the locks to see the giant yacht after word spread through the neighborhood and online. Some booed from the shore and heckled the crew.
Bumpers on the side of the boat were about the size of small SUVs, while the back deck had a covered pool and hot tub. More than a dozen crew members were visible, many enjoying the trip through the channel on a partly sunny evening.
Except Americans are fucking cowards to the last individual
I don’t strictly disagree, but it’s harder for Americans to properly protest when they may be killed or jailed for a peaceful protest vs, say, France, where farmers literally coated government buildings with shit and their non-militarized police just went “well of course, that’s their right!” Meanwhile, when German press went to the US to cover the George Floyd protests, police shot at them, even though they were well identified, cooperative members of the press.
It’s not like Americans have been dining out on a national identity of “personal sacrifice to fight tyranny against great odds” for a couple centuries or anything, right?
If they’d spent the last 50 years of obnoxious flag-waving about “let’s all not make waves and chill out so that we can continue to keep our shitty jobs and maintain our relative comfort,” then I’d give them a pass.
But no- putting down authoritarians and fascists is exactly the thing Americans have spent the last 70 years belligerently insisting they’re especially good at. If they don’t have this, they have fucking nothing and they deserve whatever MAGA gives them.