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[–] ideonek@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm sorry, but if most of you did would they could to stop it, it would be stopped.

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

How?

I'm annoying reps who are well aware they are the lesser of two evils, so they just need to avoid being primaried.

I'm making others aware of and getting contributions to things like community pantries.

I'm getting communication options going that dont rely on cell phones (thanks Verizon! Your shitty cellular network and long outage really helped me push this idea along)

I'm basically a pest who talks to other pests in their eyes.

None of these things will stop Trump (not that he's the only problem here, just one of the most significant right now). More people with the time and energy to do the same I can't see having any more of an impact.

The people who could deal with this are, generically speaking, billionaires and conservative representatives, a tiny minority of the population, neither of which are interested in having a course change.

So what's the suggestion here that will solve the problem? I'll gladly share it and work on it.

[–] ideonek@piefed.social 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

None of these things will stop Trump

Did you try?

What did you try so far? Who did you call? What protest did you attend? What protest did you organized? What subscriptions did you stoped? What did you wrote in the "why" box? What product and services did you stopped buying? To what did you volontired to? What was the name of that NGO? Who did you help? How did you organized?

Please don't tell me that most of you tried everything they can when 55 million people pay for Disney+. If it droped by half mickey mouse death squad would persobaly remove donald

You legalized corruption and called it "lobbing". At the very least you could force them to "lobby" for you.

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

So we're just going to ignore what ive already listed, and you've decided to tack on a bunch of other random things which - lol - mostly have nothing to do with trump and I didnt have in the first place.

I can see pointing out the issues with your comment will get nowhere, so I'm going to go ahead and move on now. Enjoy your day.

[–] ideonek@piefed.social 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Kę? I honestly thought you were a different person. Why else would you ask again what you personally could do more, if we allteady established that you do a lot, and - in your hart of harts - belive that you do all you can?

Individual you we covered, why did you brought it you again? You said that that most of [collective] you all thay can to change it. I said it can't be true becouse if it was it would allteady be changed. So why did you start dogging up about yourself again?

Honestlu, it took an opposite effect becouse your casual dismissal of things as not helpful and random revel that you don't realy look for ways to do more. And whatever you do its not enought, so it seems that one would be desperate to do something. Especially if the price is inconvenience.

What exactly is not ralated? Putting the economical presure on actors the have more leverage than you? Making sure that people who could be targeted for being opostion have the network of support? Procetctong most vonurable? Making your system stronger buttom-up so its harder to abuse? You seriously don't see link between civil responsibility and unnacontable leader? Is everything you know about democracy is how to make a movie about it? It make me retroactively question my appologies.

You are right, its time to move on. Watch one of your 6 subscriton services. People who are being mobilized against your army will find solace that you truly belive that most of you did all they can to stop it. You deserved it. There is nothing else you can do.

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Watch one of your 6 subscriton services

The ones I said I don't even have in the first place?

Cool. Thanks for reading the very short comment so thoroughly.

Enjoy your day.

[–] ideonek@piefed.social 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Well, 55 million of you do. But you are right, I'm so sorry iI didnt put all my undivided attention to your strugle under this post about your country invading allies. What did we learn here? What's our take away? All (majority? Most?) of you do absolutly all (except maybe feel that you dont feel like that would work - the random ones), and you have no remarks about what you or your fellow Americans could do better. No room for improvements. no notes...

I understand why trump didn't get the pece price. Tu much competition.

Honestly? I'll probably have a remorse soon. You are, unironically, victims here as well. I hope that people with better position to be a real.opposition make a systemic changes and I hope that will do it before next election or before trump dies out of old.age. But also fuck you for dodging the shread of both individual and colective responsibility for any of this. This is... sad.

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 1 points 12 hours ago

Yep, thats me, not doing anything and just dodging it all.

Such keen insight.