If everyone in power is racist, a pedophile, and just all-around hates poor people, happiness, and everything that's good, then how do we keep winning?

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• disregardable@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Because we outnumber them. It’s really that simple. We can chop off their heads whenever we want. It’s why JD Vance is terrified of just driving past old people holding up signs about him. He knows what he’s doing is wrong, and he knows making people hate him has consequences.

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• LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  There’s an early-60s stage play I was in once called Marat Sade, set in a mental asylum in 1808. The central theme is essentially that authority only exists because we let it. I think that show is ripe for a revival.

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• mistermultiverse@slrpnk.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  How is it that we managed to abolish slavery? Years of bloody battle and political challenges preceded by many years of the worst atrocities humans are capable of.

  How do we have an age of consent? Because people work hard for keeping children safe, but the system isn’t perfect, and people still find loopholes or dark and hidden places to do trafficking and similar things. Most women I know have been assaulted at a young age and/or as an adult. We can keep making it all better.

  How do we have minimum wage? Years of political challenges, and it is still far from the minimum it should be. There is a lot of complexity that goes into this. It’s great that progressives work for these things, and I support them in working more to make it better for you and me.

  Everyone in power is evil and hates us, but why are women still allowed to vote? Because it is hard to take rights away, but I certainly still see people trying to find ways and convince others that they don’t need the right to vote, and that concerns me.

  How come minimum wage hasn’t lowered or been removed entirely? Same as previous statements.

  And more importantly, how do we get good things to happen again? We keep going. Listen for the helpers, and be one.

  Because it seems like no matter where someone is on the political spectrum, THEY’RE ALL EVIL and they hate us. (And even if they didn’t, they’re still controlled by evil billionares.)

  • I don’t think all are evil. Most honest people that look at it can probably some examples lf good people trying to be honest public servants. In my opinion, it is a complexity problem, and we need better, federated technology to distribute power better. We need equality and equity. We need education and communication and collaboration. I’m not against left or right but I think extremes on both sides gravitate toward selfishness and authoritarianism. I think it isn’t because of billionaire status that billionaires are evil, but I think there is no ethical way to become or remain a billionaire in these times on this planet.

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• valar@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Many people fought and died for those things

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• nublug@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  slavery is not abolished, it is legalized and codified with amendment 13’s criminality clause. the south won. they got exactly what they wanted: federal enforcement of slavery.

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• mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Least disingenuous No Stupid Questions post

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  • LarryBetraitor@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Thank you. I have no idea why my post is getting so many downvotes.

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    • mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Its because the title of your post sounds like you presume we keep winning, and therefore are implying that it’s not true that everyone in power is xyz etc.

      The second paragraph of the body of your post reveals that you don’t actually think that, which means the title is misleading.

      The first paragraph is naïve, but that’s fair given the community.

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• Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Power corrupts. Every time. The only way to work around that is accountability. The people we give power to get it for a limited amount of time and with clear rules on what they’re allowed to do with it. If you break the rules, you’re held accountable. That#s how a modern democracy works. Once accountability breaks down we get *gestures vaguely at everything*

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  • cecilkorik@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s exactly right. We stopped holding people accountable, we normalized bad behavior as “that’s just how it is” and became comfortable with it always happening. Anger is a useful tool. It has a purpose. This is its purpose. Maybe it would’ve been good to become angry about all this earlier, but that water has already gone under the bridge and it’s not coming back. We are here now, and now is the right time to be angry about *gestures vaguely at everything*.

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  • naught101@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not just democracy… methods of keeping power in check like that are something every well functioning society needs. Wengrow and Graeber’s book The Dawn Of Everything lays this out pretty clearly.

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• HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  slavery being ended was a combination of morality, law, and war. Other places managed to get rid of it in a more progressive law kind of way while the us had people fighting it for a long time and had a massive majority who wanted to see its end before the civil war eroupted and mostly put it to bed (it being allowed for prisoners show the good guys did not completely win). The great depression is what spurred minimum wage. Voting rights for both blacks and women were a long and drawn out fight. Minimum wage has been lowered like with sub minimum wages. There is a party in the us and I think some in europe and such that toass around the idea to not have women vote. Everyone is not evil and hate us and its a pedantic thing to say they are all the same and not recognize some are better than others. So voting and resisting is what we can do. We know a lot of this has corporate influence and even ones not explicity going for it roll over easily. So don’t consume any more than you have to. Take that free time from not going to movies or out places and go to protests. Use your libraries and other local community things and support them. The reason you feel powerless is because group power comes from acting in concert. No single grain of sand in a sandstorm is that harmful but when many are raging in the storm it is a terror.

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