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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 96 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I would hate to live in a country where a minority of segregated voters in gerrymandered districts was hand-fed a bunch of corporate shills and fascist freaks through a comically corrupt primary system.

Imagine living in a country where the ostensibly democratic leadership had a sub 20% approval rating for the last 30 years running. And every new election cycle produced some of the most vulgar, hateful, ignorant, slimeballs imaginable. Then elevated them to high office for the purpose of expanding the police state and immiserating the public under the auspices of popular rule and fiscal conservatism.

[–] shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 day ago

Meet the new shitheads, same as the old shitheads

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The rich run our lives and control everything.

[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] liverbe@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.cafe 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Massively oversimplified. But there gets a point, if enough people rise up, that the stronghold on power loosens.

[–] Womble@piefed.world 4 points 18 hours ago

The bit that picture leave out is that first guy is almost certainly killed, as are a good few of those in the third panel. Thats what makes it difficult.

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yep, but some shit about being civilized and following their rules.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.cafe 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Ah yes, good old “but we need peaceful protest”.

Like the social democrats in Nazi germany condemning those who rebelled in the street because they caused damage.

[–] Womble@piefed.world 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Unlike those lovely communists who frequently actively worked with the nazis (until '35) in order to weaken the social democrats and whos leader explicitly said "after Hitler, our turn". Much better eh comrade?

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.cafe 1 points 10 hours ago

The KPD was shit. That doesn’t excuse what the SPD did. As always, just because two bad things happen doesn’t take away for the first thing being bad.

There were plenty of grassroots anarchist and communist riots (unaffiliated with the KPD) that did a lot of good.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

South Africa still hasn't learned and its standard of living is terrible now. Corporate states are inhumane places.