• magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 days ago

    How? Its not like we got here because the people okay with this are capable of being reasoned with and we refused to.

    We’ve literally been trying to get people to wake the fuck up and smell the fascism for over a decade at this point.

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      3 days ago

      Hit them where it hurts, in the pocket book. Stop being a productive pawn in their schemes.

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        3 days ago

        Dude healthcare is tied to employment and majority of us are living paycheck to paycheck. We can’t afford to lose our jobs.

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        I already practically spend all day at work, doing basically nothing, getting baked in my car in the name of slowing fascism.

        I do any less they’ll replace me with a stooge that does harder work for less dough, and then I couldn’t pay for rent, estrodiol, food, or weed.

        I’d love a general strike. Good luck in this individualist shithole.

    • RaskolnikovsAxe@lemmy.ca
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      You know how, but it involves personal sacrifice and you don’t want to do it. You don’t want to lose your job, you don’t want to be jailed, and you especially don’t want to turn to violence. But I’m sorry to say that all of these things are possible, and it’s the risk you have to take.

      Find trusted like minded people and start reacting. A critical mass of visible resistance is needed, and that critical mass is made up of small visible actions.

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        Why on gods green earth should I have to face the wraith of something I had nothing to fucking do with? I didn’t vote these people in, I’ve not even had the right to vote for a decade yet.

        I’m barely any more part of this than any other poor sucker in any other fucking western country.

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        things are bigger now, jail is a fucking horrible thing that will leave you jobless, homeless, losing all that currently makes it even moderately worth existing for. its a sort of thing that indicates this game was won long ago and our individual perceptions or choices in the moment have no effect.

        when people complain about the lack of effect and say, ‘get together and start reacting’, its ignores the problem that most people do not want to engage.

        systemic learned helplessness results in helpless people trapped in various systems of control

        the duality of karen: to be hysteric is our only option when we are wronged, but that same hysteria does others wrong as they are what makes up the meat of the machine-structure.

        Scream at the retail worker, is that justice?

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        I’m sorry you’re being downvoted. I agree with you. This is our country, and it’s been established that our government isn’t acting to protect it. Ultimately, if we want to keep it, we need to be ready and willing to make sacrifices for the betterment of the future. I don’t blame people for balking at the immense personal costs this could bring, but what’s the alternative?

        No one is coming to save us. We are facing a lot of frightening choices right now, but this means it’s the time for courage.

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        3 days ago

        So you’re going to pay for my trip to the other side of the country and a gun when I get there, right? Or are you just going to continue blaming people who are not at fault?

        • Auli@lemmy.ca
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          3 days ago

          If your American sorry you are at fault at some level.

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            3 days ago

            People like you in America are one of the main problems, absolutely zero idea how anything works but speaking confidently as if it was simple and obvious.

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            2 days ago

            It’s my fault for not changing something that I can’t change? Alrighty then. Blame me for everything else then too while we’re at it.