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[-] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Are you volunteering? ๐Ÿ˜…

That's the thing, though. As long as most people can comfortably skate by, that's exactly what they'll do. But, push come to shove, should things get bad enough, that's when revolt happens.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No, I'm not volunteering because I don't think either thing will work. But the people calling for those things to happen are waiting for someone else to do it.

Also, how are things not bad enough right now? They're sending people to Gitmo. Trump and Musk fired people who are responsible for safeguarding our nuclear weapons because they didn't know what they did. People didn't even notice despite it being all over the news. Or at least they didn't notice enough to pick up their torches and pitchforks.

And that's just the latest horrific thing he's done in the past three weeks.

So what's it going to take?

[-] Echofox@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

~2 days without food, for most people, I assume

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Starving people don't have much energy to violently revolt.

[-] Echofox@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago
[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Why on Earth do you think the French Revolution happened because of a famine?

[-] LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Only takes eating one rich person to get them back up though.

[-] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It's going to take a direct impact on peoples' lives. If the average person can continue to go to work, get a paycheck, and overpay for but afford groceries for their family, that's what they're going to do.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

And if that never happens? If things get really bad but not that bad for Americans?

Still sounds like waiting for someone else to do it.

[-] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You're not wrong.

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