But we did vote our way into it, didn't we?
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Just like 1930s Germany
Yes, but that was kinda like forgetting your keys inside on a windy day and you are currently hearing the front door slamming shut.
Yes. You voted for voting to not work anymore.
I'm very disappointed with Biden's administration for not charging more people in Trump's first term for the crimes they committed. They didn't face any consequences the last time and will now be completely off the rails. Now we have a second Trump administration with most of the same people that now know they can get away with anything.
The problem is that US democracy consists of voting for either a conservative party (Democrats) or a fascist party (Republicans).
When the conservatives are in power they care most about preserving the appearance of legitimacy of institutions and they don't do anything like arresting politicians or stuffing the supreme court even though it would strengthen democracy.
Then the fascists get in and destroy everything anyway.
I'm very disappointed with Biden's administration for committing genocide.
Good thing they've got guns to stop terrorist organizations such as ICE. I'm curious when we'll hear about them being shot at, or worse, though.
No single thing alone will fix the world. Voting alone won't fix it. Throwing a molotov alone won't fix it.
Voting (in many places, for many people) takes almost no effort. Go do it. But don't call it a day and think you've done everything you can do. Refusing to vote just yields one of the many fronts in this conflict without a fight.
Yes throwing a Molotov won't fix it. Throwing 30 million on the other hand...
How bout voting for throwing a Molotov cocktails?
Voting (in many places, for many people) takes almost no effort
The voting apparatus takes immense effort in fact. It takes so much effort that it's almost all consuming for most nations during the election period and wastes thousands of human-workhours.
I meant the amount of effort it takes for the end user.
If we're going to talk about higher order levels of effort, then everything gets very expensive very quickly.
When I lived in Little Rock, I stood in line to vote for 4.5 hours. There are a lot of places in the US where they make it as difficult as possible. I couldn’t even count how many people left the line to go back to work before they could vote.
the end user
lol. lmao.
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Throwing a molotov alone won't fix it.
But the right firebomb, at the right target, at the right time, might just change the world.
Have we tried finding Franz Ferdinand?
Yup ww1 started over a single gunshot
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Apathy is what got us here
Avarice and individualism got here.
To the point many still consider both to be strengths and not the weaknesses they are.
Not now you're not.
And the courts won't help you.
The courts can't help you, even if they wanted (they don't)
Can't they still slam Trump? /s
They're gonna drag him
You think the 90M people that couldn’t be bothered to vote against fascism are going to take to the streets and fight?
It doesn't take 90M people to blow up a pipeline.
Electoral voting is useless and built to disenfranchise and demotivate people participating from politics. Doing direct action immediately improves your life and builds mutual aid networks. So yes.
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Everyone agitating for an overthrow of the system through memes is going to get out there and start doing it any day now just you wait...
Aaaaaaaany day now...
True. What works best is being a smug "nothing ever happens" lib online and doing one political action every 4 years.
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