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I'm feeling like just hiding in bed for the next 4 years. Friends on Lemmy, got any advice for us Americans coping with the oncoming shit show that is the Trump GOP takeover? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 8 months ago by restingboredface@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 8 months ago (18 children)

Spontaneous revolution/organisation for revolution has been promised for a long time, and is no closer to happening.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 24 points 8 months ago (15 children)

I am not advocating "spontaneous" organization or random revolution. I am arguing for joining orgs and building Dual Power. As for revolution, the US is a pot of an unknown liquid constantly heating up as Capitalism decays. The boiling point is unknown, but the fact that conditions are worsening and contradictions are sharpening at increased rates means it still is likely to come.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 8 months ago (14 children)

I just like, don't believe it. Capitalism is hundreds of years old, and it's only gotten stronger.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

After ww1 there was one socialist country.

After ww2 one third of humans lived in a socialist country.

That number has risen since. Capitalism is slowly making its way off the stage of history.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 7 months ago

No, no it hasn't risen since - unless your definition of socialism has expanded far more than I agree with. Meanwhile, economies elsewhere have gotten more and more market-oriented and financialised.

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