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Here’s the deal: If you are American and you want to be able to vote in the future, you have one option, and it’s bloody awful.
If you choose to do nothing, you choose to not have voting rights. If me telling you this upsets you, ask yourself: am I more upset that it is the truth or that someone is telling the truth to me?
Another fresh account calling for major violence. Go fuck yourself.
It's funny how easy it is for other people to call for us to revolt as if it's just that easy. Oh yeah, just all of you get together and overthrow the biggest, most well armed government in the world. Sure... yup. Easy peasy. We do that every other weekend in my country!
The people of the US aren't going to rise up and overthrow a government that can curb stomp literally any other formally trained militaries in the world. It just won't happen. All it will mean is fewer dissidents and an even stronger fascist response in the event of future uprising. We just don't have any hope of attaining the sort of power.
If there's a revolution, the only way is to start from the top down. Formal legal complaint and lawsuits, impeachments, etc. That's where we're at right now. If that fails, then we need our officials to start talking dissolution or secession.
CNN from 9 years ago, but there are more current if you need them:
I have no problem saying the Democrats fucking suck and I'm going to vote for them down the whole ballot.
Well, I do have a problem saying that, I wish I didnt have to, but that's life.
It's always complaining that we don't do anything. When I ask what exactly it is that I should do, it's some answer like, "Take care of your neighbors and help people in need". Your comment is more of the same. What exactly do you want me to do outside of going out and killing people?
Kill all humans?
I'm going to need you to prove you aren't a robot.
They want chaos in our streets so they can do martial law. These are tests for the midterms. We're very fortunate to have clear examples of how it works:
Throughout all of this, immigrants and US citizens that are POC are being shot, separated from their families, deported, beat up and stalked (severity not in order). If we do the thing and start having chaos, they will shoot to kill many, many people. They have masks and guns. Again, most of the US hates ICE.
Nationwide martial law is never happening in this country.
"Martial law" is the leftist version of the Rapture. It's never happening, and every time it doesn't the goalposts just move to the future again.
So what exactly are you saying? If you show up with guns to a protest, they'll execute you. What are your other ideas?
You said it yourself. The peaceful protests in Minnesota have continued. They had elections and voted blue, despite the city crawling with ICE and other federal agents.
Continue protesting, calling your reps, and voting. In Minnesota they said "we will crawl over broken glass to vote against the GOP" and they put their money where their mouths were.
And through this all they've given a blueprint to blue cities and states across the country
Stop capitulating in advance because it's the easy way out. Have some agency.
I mean, that's what I'm saying exactly. We agree then, lol.
You said it yourself. The peaceful protests in Minnesota have continued. They had elections and voted blue, despite the city crawling with ICE and other federal agents.
Continue protesting, calling your reps, and voting. In Minnesota they said “we will crawl over broken glass to vote against the GOP” and they put their money where their mouths were.
Then my apologies if I misinterpreted you. I'm just sick of doomers using "all is lost" as an excuse to sit on their asses and refuse to take any action, and as a politically active individual it really rustles my jimmies.
Having foreign actors try and get us to bring guns and shoot ICE rustles my jimmies. They are trying to cause chaos.
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Spread the word. The only downside to a strike is not enough people striking.
And that when USA during WWII rounded up all the Americans of Japanese descent to put them in prison they still were forced to work.
I’m upset about commenters showing up and telling us we gotta do something, but offering no advice as to what to do.
You're upset that others won't fix your problems for you?
You can't read. If you have a suggestion as to how I can do my part to fix this, I'll not only listen, I'll do it.
Those here who need to be told this cannot read, or at least choose to not read anything that isn't delivered via Faux News, "NewsMax", OAN, etc.
It's going to take more than rationality on a screen or a piece of paper.
The chuds are happy for this.
The ones who really need to be told this are the ones who STILL insist that Biden would have been worse for Palestine than trump is so that is why they couldn't vote for such an uncharismatic candidate as Kamala. They don't support genocide, period.
And they don't watch fox news. They watch tankie nonsense like hasan. So they feel genuinely righteous as they are either so stupid as to not realize they are pushing an accelerationist agenda or figure it will turn out good for them because they are the best socialist so they will have the most money and power after The Revolution.
And... we are REALLY fucking stupid in the US. But you EU and rest of the world folk might want to pay attention to what is going on domestically too because a lot of y'all ain't THAT far behind us on the way to the drain.
The ones who really need to be told this are the ones
The ones who need to be told this are the ones who INSISTED that Biden needed to be the candidate. Its not the left that got us here: It was fucking shitty liberals who didn't want to bother finding candidates who represent the people.
Pointing out that in several states the US midterms might not exactly be free and open seems to really get a lot of resistance from Americans. Many seem like they really don't even want to think about it, and would just rather keep believing that the midterms will solve everything
It’s shocking to me how many feel that way. They get MAD when I even mention the possibility of what Trump is literally saying. Many of them are on Lemmy too, which has always felt strange.
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reddit has very minimal bot protection and a lot of systems designed to benefit those who pay to play, as it were.
Lemmy doesn't even have that. And it is trivial to make multiple accounts across multiple instances. Whether that is to role play some nonsense or to do the old "the first two or three downdoots set the tone" trick people try to pretend isn't a thing. And spend a bit of time shitposting/reading the timestamps and... some of them are REAL obvious.
And this is very apparent in the various political threads. LOTS of people pushing agendas (the gun nut lobby being particularly alarming). Let alone the "official" lemmy instance being blocked by most people because it is infested with lead dev sanctioned tankies who are largely indistinguishable from chuds when it comes to pushing putin et al's policies.
Much like in the good old days: Open, minimally invasive, social media is fun (yes. IRC and Usenet were social media). It is also infested with bad actors and manipulators.
Elections in this country have literally never been free and open. Voter suppression has always happened. Don't let it discourage you from acting or make you believe that we can't still win, because history has shown us that it isn't true.
History got Trump as President. Twice. History has led to Republicans getting full control of USA.
If people had not been historically discouraged we would not be here yet again talking about Trump.
Trump coming up with ideas that Republicans had been implementing since Eisenhower is not a great sign for him in 2026.
Half the joke of this administration has been Donnie saying the quiet parts through a bullhorn. The other half has been him fumbling them in ways that would make Evan Mecham blush. Dick Cheney is absolutely spinning in his grave with this shit.
It does seem like a tacit admission he recognizes that states control voting.
And that he wants Republicans in some of those states to "take over the voting".
It seems they've finally figured out that it's much harder to rig a Congressional election, nearly impossible. With a presidential election, you only have to flip one race in only seven swing states, but over 400 districts spread out over America is much tougher.
So they have to take over management of the voting in the most vulnerable states. What they'll do is come up with a weak rationalization for taking over the voting, and declare it, and then suspend elections for some cockamamie reason (the voting records are so messed up, it will take years to sort it out...).
The states will refuse to cooperate, hold their own elections, and MAGA will declare the result invalid, since the MAGA government already took over the voting, and suspended it. Then we can have a nice showdown with Mike Johnson refusing to give up Speakership or swear on the new Democratic Reps.
The phrase Constitutional Crisis gets thrown around a lot, but this will be the real thing.
Well that's not exactly tacit, but yeah.
Let’s say they could approve this. For sure it will be no time do this by now, they could not change all preparations for this midterms otherwise they would need to cancel, because there is no time to prepere…. Ohhhhhhbbb! I get it.
Desperate.