Comment on As of today, I have stopped using Reddit entirely.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 5 hours agoBesides the companies that abuse us, the government abuses us as well. In a lot of ways the current administration mirrors what an abusive relationship is like. One that we as citizens are compelled to endure. But unlike a personal abusive relationship, there is no escape.
If you cannot use the information then please pass it along to someone who can.
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I don’t need the information, and neither does anybody else. If you want to be helpful, give people resources to contact their elected representatives, and/or start volunteering with your local community, and make a plan to get out if things come to that. Everything else including this, is just noise.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I would disagree, lots of people do need help and we are being abused by the government and corporations. It is important to recognize this.
Reddit is an abusive entity borne out by the fact that they are thieves of the commons, taking our collective knowledge and communities for themselves, and locking them up behind a paywall. I don’t care what their abusive terms of service are, what they did is wrong. But this isn’t even about them though because everyone is doing this same shit.
I have already been involved in local elections. I have stood on the capital of my state demanding rights for other disfranchised citizens. I have gone to DC to lobby my representatives multiple times. I know the power of community organizing and influencing local elections. I also know how little power we have on a state level and how we basically have zero power at the federal level (non-wealthy people)
We have problems that can’t be fixed by flexing our political power alone. This is the real conflict we face and is why so many people have been disenfranchised.
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Yeah, well, you know what the next step to the peaceful stuff is after voting, lobbying, and running for office. We all do.