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The Trump regime started this shit and she's pro Trump. I reckon she should be forced to eat her own dog food, and so should all the MAGAts - until they all turn against Trump and we can all agree to go back to the rule of law.
Pretty hilarious how lemmy thinks everything will return to normal after an "election".
It's delusional. People are delusional in the US thinking simply voting will fix things. The system has been rigged historically and will be significantly rigged in the upcoming elections, if we even have one. Mail in voting is already being taken over too.
Simply voting and peaceful protest is not enough to change the current trajectory. I'd love to be wrong but I don't think I am.
Do you have a better solution?
We know it’s rigged. We’ve known it’s rigged for decades. Until the system is changed so the states with tiny populations don’t have an outsized influence on things, it’s not going to get fixed.
Saying “peaceful protest isn’t enough” is also hand waving away what happens when protests aren’t peaceful. You’re essentially saying “people need to hurry up and volunteer to be brutally killed to change things,” and no matter how patriotic somebody may be that’s a pretty tough sell.
We’re not delusional. We see how bad it is. There are a lot of people protesting and taking action every single day across the country, but it’s harder to see a) because they don’t get much coverage from the media, and b) because while the total number of people protesting is quite large, they’re spread out across the entire nation and that’s hard to capture in a picture. Add into that the surveillance networks working to identify and punish those people, and there’s an additional chilling effect which reduces the overall visibility of those protests.