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?

        • Jax@sh.itjust.works
          5·
          8 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
          1·
          8 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
          13·
          8 days 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.

          source