Yeah but it's not a station accident. It's just that Republicans are taking away healthcare from veterans, children, millions of americans, cutting food aid to starving nations, turning all of our former allied nations against us, making air travel dangerous, allowing multibillionaire robber barons to give themselves government contracts, dissolving the department of education, leaving old people who paid into social security their entire lives die alone and uncared for because their checks stop coming, etc.

But not a train station accident.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 5 days ago

The train station was just the straw that broke the camel's back.

And you need to consider that the entire US society is architected to keep Americans isolated from each other - from keeping people moving around on their little metal cages, to promoting suburban little castles with grass moats as "the dream", to the destruction of third spaces - so 20k people getting out of their bubble and showing up in every city is impressive.

[–] TheSambassador@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

Man Lemmy is getting as bad as reddit was with the cynicsm. Literally every article of people gathering or doing anything is met with a smug "yeah but it's not enough", with posters continuing to justify sitting at home and spreading their attitude even further. You ever wonder if this pervasive attitude is part of the problem?