Man my parents are even going to this.
I mean they've been protesting shit since the 70s, but still it's weird to say
Man my parents are even going to this.
I mean they've been protesting shit since the 70s, but still it's weird to say
I see you all have been protesting every weekend over there in the US
Is tomorrow's protest expected to be much bigger?
By the sounds of it? Yeah this one is much bigger than the last one.
Which have been growing slowly, but this one may be less slow in growth.
Unless there’s direct action, it doesn’t really matter.
my dude, it was always in the hands of oligarchs...
Good luck boys and gals, viel Spaß mit der Revolution!
Vielen Dank!
America was always an oligarchy. Trump just made away with the decorum hiding it.
It's always been an oligarchy, but mostly because people let it be an oligarchy. Voting works... when you do it. That's what's enabled people like Trump to grab power, people voted for them.
It's not the only answer, but it's the single simplest and easiest way for most people to effect change on the world around them. Which makes it surprising just how many people refuse to do it.
Nazi ~~punks~~ dealerships fuck off.
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Ok, but like what are we going to do? Marching on the streets alone isn't going to fix anything. We don't have to march into DC, drag the republicans onto the street and shoot them (but that would fix a lot of problems). What's the next step?
It's like...
What's the ???
there? Strikes? Sabotage (or is that violent?)? Voting? That feels too slow to save much.
If you're looking for a quick fix all you'll find is snake oil. The damage has been cumulative over years, decades, if not centuries. There's no quick and easy fix.
The most general answer is collective action, which this is part of. The next is finding ways to obstruct the bad changes from going through. After that is finding ways to push the better changes through. There's no single distinct answer for all the problems for any of those steps, except that we work together. Which this helps with.
People are going to suffer, even more than they already are, the best we can do is mitigate it at this point. Mostly because we haven't acted before now. But, as the cliche goes: The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the second best time is now.
Right. No fast change will undo decades of damage.
I guess I just want more concrete plans. Like, universal basic income, no more wealth exploits (eg: low interest loans against stocks, no tax), changing the election system to something like ranked choice, uncapping the number of representatives, statehood for DC and peurto rico... now I'm just rattling off ideas.
Maybe policy can come later, and trying to nail it down would lead to infighting and failure? But it needs to happen eventually.
Øf? 🐷?
This is less timely than saying we shouldn't start kidnapping Africans for forced labor.
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