cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/54239937

During the Great Depression, when banks foreclosed on farms, neighbors often showed up at the auctions together.

They’d bid only a few cents, and return the land to the family that lost it. Sometimes a noose hung nearby as a warning to outsiders not to profit from someone else’s ruin.

It was rough, but it worked, communities protected each other when the system wouldn’t.

If a collapse like that happened today, do you think people would still stand together or has that kind of solidarity disappeared? Could it happen again?

        • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
          41·
          21 hours ago

          No he didn’t. They cheated, and we ALL know it. Perhaps the greatest crime of appeasement the Dems have done so far has been to let MAGA get away with the biggest election fraud in American history.

          • veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world
            2·
            10 hours ago

            Election fraud?

            Let’s be real here, majority of Americans are stupid, particularly the Latino and black male voters that swung right this election. You reap what you sow

        • Jax@sh.itjust.works
          184·
          2 days ago

          Damn, so what you’re saying is that it still isn’t 50%. Crazy.

          If you think the .2% matters I’m going to start listing propaganda talking points from the 2024 presidential election cycle.

        • positiveWHAT@lemmy.world
          6·
          2 days ago

          Well, if digging a moat was the goal the US certainly is there. Canada will have a field day with European tourists during football world cup.

        • MNByChoice@midwest.social
          64·
          1 day ago

          77,302,580 people is not half of America. It is 49.8% of the folks that bothered to vote.

          More usefully,

          In the 2024 presidential election, 73.6% (or 174 million people) of the citizen voting-age population was registered to vote and 65.3% (or 154 million people) voted according to new voting and registration tables released today by the U.S. Census Bureau.

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