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• IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yeaaa about that.

  If we cant get people to the polls.

  How do we get people to the streets?

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  • nepenthes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    While I agree it looks like apathy has set in, maybe Luigi can be seen as a catalyst for change through action.

    Godspeed my USian neighbours.

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    • djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Won’t happen.

      Americans are lazy bastards, and nothing makes them lazier than the cold. For as much as I admire Luigi, he will have thrown his life away for nothing. If he’d been a little bit sooner, or a lot bit later, maybe he could be a martyr. As is, he’ll be a footnote.

      What you would need is several copycat killers, with some getting away, during the summer when Americans are comfortable protesting. Even then, American protests have recently been toothless, and haven’t made any effect on politics ever since Trump took office in 2016.

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      • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Revolutions are actually more like a powderkeg. Once a significant proportion of the population become apathetic and angry, all it takes is a spark to ignite it. This has repeated many times throughout history. Most recently in Syria, where a decade of civil war deadlock completely evaporated in a few months.

        What we need is a relatively small number people like this youtube.com/watch?v=V74AxCqOTvg

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      • nepenthes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Inspiration doesn’t expire, it breeds like hope. History happens slowly and through a culmination of events. A catalyst is the enabler of the future.

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  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That is indeed the problem.

    Truth be told, it ain’t happening, but I get so sick of people shrugging it off and pretending that we don’t have a choice. We do

    It’s just that the majority would rather watch the system get tighter and tighter because they think the noose isn’t going to be around their necks.

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  • purrtastic@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Wait until the price of eggs and gas goes up

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    • yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Nothing will happen, people are willing to tolerate much worse things

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• Neoinvin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  americans abandoned that a long time ago.

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• dragontamer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  And who will lead this revolution? Biden? Kamala?

  Go on. Who is the leader?

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  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Why do you think anyone that’s already part of the system would be involved at all?

    It has to be us, the people, not some charismatic, or good liar that’s stuck in the concept of making the system work. It has to come from people that are tired of the fact that the system does work, just not for us

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    • dragontamer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Cool.

      Give me a name.

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      • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Are you dense?

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      • superkret@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        The way American politics are going, it’ll probably be lead by Jack Black.

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• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You do know it isn’t mandatory to let it happen, right?

  Did anyone tell the DNC? Because they’re sure as hell ACTING like it is…

  Seriously, we do not have to abandon our right to revolution

  A couple weeks late now. For a popular revolt facing an overwhelming power imbalance, you need to rely on anyone in government being squeamish about massacring civilians.

  The new government would rather kill a thousand innocent people than concede the God-Emperor ever being wrong about anything, and the new Senate minority would rather let them than violate procedural norms.

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