• Venat0r@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    the point of electing a democrat isn’t to fix capitalism: it’s to try to make the decay slightly slower.

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        but only if it’s for a no kings protest, so only like on a weekend, when the weather is nice, and does’nt stay too late, and doesn’t inconvenience the police, and only that one day, and we don’t allow people to protest with their firearms, and we don’t make any demands, or specify a thing we want changed, and don’t interrupt traffic, nor stop people from entering protested buildings, and we remain respectfully quiet, and the news won’t report on it, and i can still go shopping after, only then will a protest be acceptable.

        … and the goal is to maybe get people to vote for the party of normal socital harm escalation

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          24 hours ago

          When we did it on a weekday they laughed and said we had no job and regular people said it should be on a weekend.

          Eh none of this matters. MAGA are funding buses of people to protest where they want while claiming everyone else pays for buses. We are fucked because we let them fuck us.

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            22 hours ago

            my issue isn’t in the legitimacy in the eyes of the news media. it’s very obvious that the media is hostile to progressive direction.

            my gripe is that protests are used to diffuse public pressure. it’s a tool to prevent change, another circus. any sort of leverage such a group could get to enact actual change is directly fought against, as unacceptable. their only goal is to get more people to vote democrat. but makes no demands from the democrats and is complicit in its rightward side.

            in history peaceful protests do not acheive change as they are easy to ignore, yet we are taught otherwise, and said training conveniently ignored the more uncomfortable implementation of leverage to force change that are instead attributed to these protests. history is white washed in order to protect the stability of the exploitative system. any victims of said system are just collateral

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          21 hours ago

          That was a central point of his manifesto. It didn’t matter if you voted Democrat or Republican they both further the goals of capital and industry. He was concerned about the fall from the height of industrialization back to subsidence farming and that the longer we delay that the worse it gets, and neither party helps deal with that.

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              11 hours ago

              I would recommend reading famous things like this so you can make up your own mind about it instead of having your mind made up by others 😅