Capitalism is very good at protecting itself.
Join a union and vote radical left.
vote radical left.
If people voted based on issues instead of party loyalty...the US would be a completely different country.
People should vote in their genuine best self interest, which is working class in 99% of all cases and they would have been best served with a mostly socialist party. So I guess i agree that party loyalty isn't great.
party loyalty is great, you should always make sure your party hasn't magically become a different party since the last time you voted.
imagine if social democrats could stop fucking turning themselves into neolibs, even the socialists here in sweden seem to be threatening to ease off the leftism
Thats ehy party loyalty sucks ass. Just look at the last 5 yrs of a party to make your voting decision. Who did what and why? Its not hard.
It’s especially good at protecting itself from literally zero threats.
Let’s not pretend Americans are putting up any kind of fight at all.
Right, because capitalism has conditioned us to be complacent.
That just hit the nail on the head so hard it caught fire!
because it turned out Americans are too meek or too ignorant to act
People need to miss at least three meals in a row before they start getting serious. We don't have the material conditions yet to act.
That's like trying to put on the seatbelt after the crash
Humans are dumb at the macro scale
Not really
How are you gonna act with an empty stomach tho?
Very hungry.
Without an alternative. People get very unhappy when they're starving.
On fat reserves.
Angrily
It also doesn't help that all of the people with guns, like the current situation. They may subsequently change their mind when the realities of the situation start to hit in a few years, but currently they're alright with it.
Not all gun owners like the current situation.
Source: Gun Owner, do not like current situation. There's a vast difference between a responsible gun owner and those ammosexuals who just want to be given an excuse to open fire at anything.
I definitely wouldn't say "all". There's plenty of us with guns that do not like the situation. What exactly do you expect everyone to do, go outside and shoot their Republican neighbor? Someone tried shooting Trump, and most leftists with >2 brain cells would agree that it would've been an absolute shit show if he'd succeeded in killing him.
I don't disagree that the group of people that like the situation are more heavily armed than the group of people that dislike it, but the same thing has been said for a decade now... Why not start changing that situation?
I’m glad people keep thinking like you do.
Thinking that you can just shoot your way out of your problems? Yeah, that mindset has been great for the USA! Definitely let's have more people like that!
"Cowardly" is the word you're looking for.
Most the population is checked out you’re not getting a revolution until they starve.
And the other half of wrecking the US economy is to remove resources from the general population, making it much harder for revolution to happen. So by the time it gets to that point, there will be little resources for most of the population beyond lacking food.
I fully agree with the content OP posted.
But I cannot help myself.
*Your
Sure, but I miss when the internet was an escape, now its kinda of dead for me, I spend more time offline because of the 24/7 outrage, like yeah im upset too, but it just gets repetitive, im not built to be stressed out constantly, im getting blood pressure issues, had to dlt x because the algoirthim shifted towards controversy hard, and have to use lemmy less since its just depressing/exciting in a bad way news all the time.
Really wish lemmy was an exception, considering how small it is and how powerless the userbase is, yet its just another source of stress in my life lately
You can browse Lemmy by "subscribed" and only subscribe to non-political subs.
click here for a list of communities that are NOT politics, tech, or meme -related.
Most are currently active (except for the ones with a * which were less active last I checked) Sometimes politics, tech or memes sneak in but they're not the focus.
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Most of these are currently active. (except for the ones with a * which were less active last I checked). Sometimes these include politics but that's not the sole focus.
Maybe Lemmy could have support for categorising/tagging communities and/or posts, such that one could follow, block, or maybe filter them. I.e. tag a community "Politics", and users could simply express a lack of interest on the aforementioned category, and see no further from said community and others alike
Stuck with reddit as the only place you can talk about not politics primarily, I wouldnt mind it if it wasn't 75% of my feed
no lawmakers are here, anyone here is already voting on the same side as you, yeah get your thoughts out but Idk what sort of political change yall think yall make on this platform specifically, its an echo chamber of outrage
Not a bad point...
We're a subculture, which is a socially isolating, defensive posture to take. An offensive posture would be, I guess, to form a counterculture--and go out there to where the people are, so you can reproduce your culture in differently minded people.
But who wants to do that when we've got this cozy wozy place.
That’s a dang ol’ fuck, man -Boomhauer
The kind where you execute your surpressors or where you throw imports into the harbour?
surpressors
What is this from? There's no source.
Edit: Colonial Outcasts podcast 5/27/25
Your.
Because people give their power away to authorities, instead of taking control over their own lives. No one is going to rescue any of you. Only when we all accept this and move on, together, will we ever be free.
What would be signs of a revolution?
Small scale political violence and organization of militias.
Oh, look, it's just the fascists doing that.
Enjoy the results of your own policies, neolibs.
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