• amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    “the Republicans vote in every election” said the foaming Democrat as the Gestapo took them away to the camps.

    your country is literally going through a coup and all you can think about is this fetishistic image of saving your country through electoral reform. I’d be laughing if I wasn’t so disturbed.

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      I was at a local protest yesterday. There were probably a few thousand of us in total. As we were marched around, led by police officers who monitored and managed our progress the whole time, I just kept thinking “This many people working together could probably actually do something that gets national attention.” We have a Trump Tower in my city that the protest went by, and everyone just ineffectually flipped it off or yelled some dumb shit like “Fuck Donald Trump.” I bet if we’d all charged the lobby at once, it’d have broken through to national news, but instead we kept an orderly and maintained peace as we shouted “No Justice, No Peace.” It won’t surprise you to learn corporate news didn’t bother to report on it, since nothing really happened.

      I’m getting out of this place, Americans have no goddamn chance. They don’t know how to protest, they don’t know how to scare their oligarchs anymore. It’s no wonder the oligarchs are laughing at us, I’m laughing too.

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        self-flagellation doesn’t help anyone either. to us looking from outside the west it makes you look silly.

        nobody is born knowing how to protest. the countries that do it more commonly do it because they put time aside to organize in their local communities.

        I’m not sure protesting is worth that much energy anyways. the partisans didn’t eliminate Nazis by protesting, they acknowledged that the time for that was long gone.

        the impactful shit can’t be legally talked about in public. we need more of that.

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      I’m always open to learning.

      Why don’t you explain in detail how you personally mustered a large swath of the population to follow you.

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        I’m not a democrat so I don’t have a making people follow me kink. i prefer allies that can think for themselves