politics
Sunday, July 14, 2024
idk, I don't find this that surprising
So Dialga, I had an interesting realization semi-recently
if you think back to the American Revolution
Boston tea party, raids on the British, etc.
a lot of our founding fathers were in their early 20s
Washington and the generals were a bit older
but a lot of the idealists, were super young
it's often the 20-year-olds who cause radical change
but idk what the guys motive was in this case, it doesn't feel idological or else I'd have assumed there was a manifesto
could be suicide by cop, could be highly anti-Trump, could be some ideological sperg for a niche policy
ok, here's the Boston Tea Party stats
of the ~200 main participants, 9 were older than 40
26 were under 20, majority were 20-30
yeah, not saying it's 1:1, just that being 20 isn't crazy young for political V
and; last aside I swear, also remember that only 2% of the colonists supported the revolution
overwhelming majority supported the British, 2nd most common sentiment was indifference
it never actually got that high, most people thought British rule was preferable into the 1800s
leadup to the War of 1812 was when people started valuaing their independence
which is about 1 generation later
oh they 100% did, British irregulars were all just colonists
which was the majority of their army
British sent over VERY few regular troops
they sent over German (Hessian) mercs, who defected after being bought out by Washington (using French gold)
and used colonist irregulars, who didn't have the drilling to sustain long fieldings
American strategy and unlimited French/Spanish support is why we won
remember, the largest battle of the Revolution happened in Spain
with zero American participation
it's not like 2% fought
yeah, I will agree there
the more radical party attracted more people willing to enlist and fight (which is pretty in-line with being radical)
Replying to Dialga #god_of_time how radicalizing was his environment to make him do this kind of thing
which is why i said this. i dont mean to say 20 is too young, just weird. because you'd have to be in a radicalizing environment to put your life at risk for something you have no stakes in
that's a good point
I didn't make that connection, mb Dialga
this is a synced video, of the crowd of people pointing and cops wandering around
usually I'm sick of politics shit by this point, but this is still so surreal
Monday, July 15, 2024
yeah, I think that's the piece that gets me too
but like, the elections don't even really matter
it just feels like something changed, and by him not dying maybe they didn't change as much
things just feel different, I'm not appalled this happened, I'm not going to pearl clutch and winge about democracy or w/e