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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.
Almost 4 or 5 decades at this point.
https://youtu.be/fam5wRXcoQE
https://youtu.be/vHn9AWYU0Hg
Hit them where it hurts, in the pocket book. Stop being a productive pawn in their schemes.
Dude healthcare is tied to employment and majority of us are living paycheck to paycheck. We can't afford to lose our jobs.
Unfortunately you will probably believe that right up until you start losing your lives and then it will be much too late.
That's still not a solution.
By design and you well loose your job to AI or offshoring anyway.
Problem is you always need rich people for revolution just like the fairy tale Americans tell about their founding.
Medical insurance is the only reason I keep working.
Same.
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.
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.
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.
i've been fighting this shit for 30 years longer than you dude. why the fuck should i have to keep fighting? still do. we need people with working backs too.
Sucks to be you, I agree but no one else will do it.
It would have been easier to do in the obvious and inevitable buildup over the last 20y.
And you can choose not to act, but action will eventually be thrust upon you.
More like 80 years.... At the very least 50. Nixon was the canary in the coal mine.
https://youtu.be/fam5wRXcoQE
https://youtu.be/vHn9AWYU0Hg
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?
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?
If your American sorry you are at fault at some level.
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.
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.
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.