What is wrong with America as a country runs far deeper than its government.

American culture is rotten to its core and always has been. That’s why the only good that has ever come from it has been, as stated before, from the developments of counter-culture movements that were born explicitly to oppose it.

Just because I was born in America doesn’t mean I have to identify with it and because I don’t let that arbitrary identity blind my judgement of this country I can see it for what it really is.

I’m not saying it is. I’m saying that, while some may benefit from this, others, such as myself, are being negatively affected and isolated because of it

I mean, data leaks have happened on Twitter. So, I’d assume they just acquired that data from the leaked information.

Not as a topic of their own right but it is something that should come up during discussion of different periods where the dowry played a key part of the culture of those times, such as the feudal age.

Many of the political happenings were negotiated with the dowry being a key tool for nobility vying for power and favor through marriage between families.

As an autistic individual living in a rural middle of nowhere village with no access to transportation to leave and actually go do things of my interest and meet people outside of this regressive MAGA infested cesspool, I fail to see the benefits

Never was.

Everything good about this country was because of our counter-culture doing things in spite of this nation.

I’m from the US so I interpreted it the best I could. If others closer to the issue could provide more nuance it would be much appreciated.

In the article? The price change is noted at the end.

Trust, I am well aware. Part of a conservation degree is economics, because conservation directly has to argue in economic terms in order to persuade governments and stakeholders for support of passing legislation.

Unfortunately, the powers that be seem to have stopped caring entirely, ceasing to even performatively care. They want it all and they don’t wish to negotiate anymore.

As someone who has a degree in wildlife conservation and has always been my dream to work for the Forest Services and have a career protecting what is left of this nation’s natural wonder.

And they are doing this explicitly for the purposes of letting the logging and oil industry rape these natural wonders for fucking profit. For fake, imaginary fucking social value of which they already possess an obscene amount.

I cannot describe my anger and loathing.

No, don’t think they dropped anything. They speak facts.

Always has been.

What is happening with this administration is exposing the great flaw of electoralism that anarchists and other leftists have been warning about for nearly a century.

That if we do not restructure our society, our politics and our culture leave us manipulatable to where these corrupt individuals could systematically consolidate power and out themselves or their allies into positions of power.

This is the result of not a decade but over a century of political and systemic manipulation by the owning-class.

Living in the US during this time has radicalized me so much against the system.

Oh wow. Watched a bit of S1 of this. Good show from what I remember. Absolutely can’t believe it has 4 seasons but I’m not gonna complain

I’m absolutely sorry but to hear that the concept of a dowry is not elementary knowledge sounds absurd. It is a matrimonial tradition that has spanned numerous cultures across the globe and has played important role in the political negotiations across history.

It is kinda base level knowledge for having an understanding of historical contexts.

Idk, I’m with the other commenter that it is surprising to hear of anyone who doesn’t know about it, unless you’re, like, still a teenager in middle/high school.

Seriously, because it deserves reiterating, fuck American culture. Everything that is good that has come out of this country is because of its counter-culture doing things in spite of it.

Because of their actions, the government is negotiating relief packages for people in key economic sectors being affected by the price gouging. So, “idiots” is a pretty weird way of saying “protestors who actually understand how to leverage their collective power to force the system’s hand to respect their demands”

Did you read the article? The fuel stations are running out because of blockades by protests. They have fuel. Hell, they are nearly to the point of needing to turn away ships because they are nearing capacity.

The protests are because of fuel pricing being gouged and impacting the livelihoods of these people.

These actions have forced the government’s hand at providing relief packages to people in need, especially those in key economic sectors such as food production, public transit, and emergency services.

The owning-class can go without making obscene profits off of an international crisis. That’s all that the people are asking for.