Meanwhile the real opposition is posting on Lemmy
My favorite thing about all these revolution working class rise up posts is that it’s always posted by people LARPing about fighting back online but also doing nothing
I’m too overworked and socially disabled to do anything
“but what are you doing, hero?”
The war cry of the complacent, docile and subservient American.
Look I wanna be a hero but I just can’t
We don’t need heroes. we need people who show up regularly. And many of them.
Therein lies your problem. I can show up for a weekend. I can show up for several weekends, in fact. I can’t sit in a protest for two weeks, because I have a job I need to keep in order to eat food and own a home.
As the economy collapses further more and more people will become available for the sort of protest required of them, because they will no longer have job responsibilities. Or food. Possibly including me.
Until that time, I will be making efforts to keep my job.
This is all a part of organizing. Helping others. But you cannot organize if you do not show up. Either way you’ll end up at the same place.
Absolutely correct. Many are quick to criticize the method of resistance as the problem when they’re completely missing the point that a national response of 5M out of a nation of 340M will change nothing.
We need to engage the disengaged, not fight over the content of the protest.
I mean if you post online something like “Hey who wants to join my armed revolution?” then you’re gonna get the feds on you and your organization’s cover is going to get blown. If somebody does get caught and their connections can be traced back to a website or other community, then the unradicalized masses will see that website/community as a breeding ground for violence and either that website/community or the government will make the website/community clamp down and/or give up IDs of other members. Especially in an era where data is a commodity and the psychopathic tyrants are unmoved by peaceful protest, effective rebel cell formation and action has to be cloak and dagger and requires time to form an armed militia with a clear objective and a strong majority of the populace would need to sympathize. Definitely don’t abide by this info and form a rebel cell in real life, since that would be illegal and therefore bad; if you were a fictional character in the fictional Star Wars universe, for example, then go ahead.
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Damn I hadn’t realised I never actually helped organise a protest for paramedics in my city.
I could’ve sworn I had before you let me know I hadn’t.
Silly me
Good for you, but you were better off staying quiet with that one.
No he wasn’t. You said that no one was doing anything. He came back to show people are. The media is trying to hide it, but it’s important to spread the word.
You said that no one…
I don’t think that was the parent commenter though…
If you’re organizing protests, you really don’t want your online presence linked to your actions or your identity.
He came back to claim people are.
We are still on the internet. People lie all the time.
Yeah just a series of annoying responses triggered me 😭
y tho…
I’m sensing some sincerity from a user who posted a shitpost. Sorry I hurt your butt.
i like how you assume we are just as inactive as libs.
Most of them are the same Putin shills that throw wedges between leftists/progressives/liberals with the goal of destabilizing the US. GeNoCiDe JoE every Israel post in 2024, but not a peep about Trump’s billionaire resort plans for the West Bank. Now it’s back to criticizing Netanyahu, not the guy who upgraded him to 10-ton bombs.
Goddamn blue MAGA fucking sucks. We aren’t supposed to criticize Netanyahu? You are just mad it isn’t your woman sending the bombs.
You absolutely should criticize Netanyahu. You should also try working on your reading comprehension. I’m critical of the people who railed on Biden on every Israel post last year that don’t say shit about Trump this year. Just a bunch of one-sided shit stirrers that act like liberals are worse than far-right fascists.
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I do think there is psyops to wedge the progressives and liberals. However, this benefits the blue MAGA nonetheless. The blue MAGA kept going on about the “lesser evil” and “perfect is the enemy of good” phrases. It occured to me that it is a thought terminating response from criticising the Democratic Party from actually being active to go further left in order to finally quash the far-right. Moreover, those phrases are also usually conservative phrases to convince people to accept the status quo. This make the Democratic party conservative. And the problem with conservatives is they would rather side with fascists, than to rein the ills of capitalism to keep the monied interests happy. The right and conservative parties in 1934 Germany elected to give Hitler absolute power while the left opposed it. Ninety years later in the US, which party allowed the GOP bill to gut welfare programmes? It is the Democrats with Chuck Schumer. Progressives have the last laugh over liberals/blue MAGA being wrong on “vote blue, no matter who” nonsense (although fascists indeed would like the left to have the last laugh before sending us to concentration camps). The Democrats would vote with MAGA regardless of whether or not they have the majority anyway!
This.
None of these leftists have done shit. They just shit talk on the internet, and pretend that sitting out is doing something worthwhile.
There are too many Trump supporters… and they’re multiplying at least in my area. Change will happen only when they start becoming self aware.
TLDR: We fucked.
Lol I love the sentiment because they are multiplying. But then you’re like “it is their lack of self awareness that is the problem”
We are the ones that lack awareness. The reason they are growing in numbers and electing idiots like Trump is that we are not connecting or engaging regular people. I have watched people in places like r/fuckcars advocate for deflating random people’s tires while on their way to work. They act like that’s the way to win these things. Meanwhile Trump supporters are on a lake getting drunk and blasting Creed and launching fireworks. Like there is a very serious lack of self awareness on the left. Most aren’t even aware that there is a very serious decline. They’re all just waiting for someone else to fix it all.
Just look at the comments in this thread. It’s a fucking shit show
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I wondered why this post was so controversial. I forgot Americans exist 😭😭
Now it makes sense.
By all I read, y’all are fucked.
Thankfully lots of us can’t read and are blissfully unaware at this late hour.
I was gonna get on my invisible soapbox and say some real shit. But then I forgot this is for Shitposting. Carry on libturds!
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/470/
“I stop fascism with a sign on a stick.”
What else do you propose with 5M people out of a nation of 340M?
The signs on sticks are meant to engage the disengaged. The goal is to increase our numbers, not feed our small resistance to prisons and give Trump a reason to enact the Insurrection Act.
“Violence is the only answer but I will commit none of it and yell at people online to do it for me instead” something along those lines probably
A sign saying “Smile!” Is actually a microagression against people with bad/no teeth. It’s actually very toxic and hateful. So much for the tolerant left.
It sure fucking seems like it. Nobody’s doing anything.
Maybe you’re not. Try going to protests. Talk to people in person. Leave your echo chamber and share information with those that are unaware. Small resistances get incarcerated, deported, or exterminated. See: Nazi Germany
I should have been more specific in what I meant. I’m only talking about the elected officials who seem to be more interested in being seen to talk big than to actually do anything impactful.
Democrats can only talk. They were voted into minority. The only power they have is the filibuster, and that doesn’t work on executive orders or reconciliation bills.
That’s another thing that makes no sense though. Most of the executive orders are illegal, unconstitutional or just not something within executive order power, yet people are following then as though they’re holy edicts. It’s easily the most fucked up thing I’ve seen happen from the federal government because it’s so mindless and short sighted.
They’re still to be followed until ruled unconstitutional by a federal court or overturned by Congress. The Republicans in Congress are complicit, but federal courts have already stopped Trump over 200 times since his term began. https://archive.is/zZ9zU
Dick and Jane Learn to Comply In Advance
Why is that a shitpost?
It was posted here, making it a shit post.
*Americans protesting fascism
