• JcbAzPx@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    1 and 2 completely agree, but 3 is quitter talk. We don’t need any of that.

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      20 hours ago

      The last three elections had the highest voter turnout in recorded American history. This isn’t a voting problem anymore, because our voting system, our very democratic process, has been compromised with social manipulation and leveraged against us.

      We will not rush the polls and fix this.

      We don’t necessarily need to do an armed insurrection to fix this, but we have to get a LOT more active and a LOT more involved in our local leadership and representation, we have to argue a LOT more with our shitty uncle who gets all his news from Newsmax and nobody ever pushes back on him. We have to fight ICE in the streets and post it to social media and make resistance cool. We have to stop buying shit. Not a dumbass protest against a single company or product, just start saving your damn money and stop wasting it on games and booze and drugs. Seriously, take the money OUT of their hands. Start getting healthy, active and smart.

      It will take generations to fix this, but it starts now with you getting up and walking somewhere and telling a total stranger “I can’t believe how much we pay in taxes and they couldn’t lower the price of groceries!” No wokescolding, no lectures, just do everything you can to make people mad at the actual enemy, the corporations and the wealthy.

      edit: to the three people triggered by the idea that we can’t get out of this just by voting and telling people their shirts are problematic, you are the problem. You are ammunition for the orcs and monsters who have sabotaged us all. Get your priorities in order. Get off discord and get away from your polycule of shut-ins and ass-kissing introverts and get fucking busy. Phone-bank, march, throw a sandwich at an ICE agent, just stop thinking you can intellectualize your way out of this. Nobody is coming. This is on YOU.

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            23 hours ago

            If history has taught us anything, it’s that the porn always wins.

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              23 hours ago

              Trying to fight apathy here is like swimming against a current of pure laziness and despair.

              Ya’ll need to take some walks and eat a salad.

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      19 hours ago

      It’s not quitter talk. It is opening a discussion for a workaround.