• lumony@lemmings.world
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      Slowly. Luigi was a good start.

      If Americans want to revolt, they’ll have to do it in the shadows.

      Any common man can kill a rich person. No organized resistance is required, and any organized resistance is going to be infiltrated by the FBI and shut down before anything significant happens.

      It would be neat if the heroes that kill our oppressors end up getting social media famous as they do it.

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      America isn’t going to have a revolution. Modern Americans couldn’t revolution our way out of a Walmart. Best we might be able to do is a collapse, and we’ll blame it on everybody in the world but ourselves.

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        when things actually start happening.

        gestures broadly

        Things like American citizens being deported to foreign prisons when they have not committed a crime?
        Travellers with legal visas at the border being imprisoned and tortured instead of just turned away?
        Private citizen data being stolen from government facilities while federal employees are illegally terminated from their jobs?
        States being threatened with loss of funding until the King gets a personal apology up to his standards?

        What things are you waiting for?

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      America doesn’t need a revolution, a simple general strike will remind the capitalist bastards that they rely on us, not the other way around.

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          I’m Australian. We have mandatory voting, which makes it almost impossible for a nutjob like Trump to take control here.

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            But we do have little to no independent media, which does help Dutton and his cohorts (Trumpets of Patriots or some nonsense) convince people to put in donkey votes at best and vote for them at worst. All they need is a majority in parliament to push the crazy.

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          Americans haven’t given up their consumerism, so a general strike is out of the question.

          They need money for subscribing to digital entertainment they can be getting for free and to order food with delivery apps at 100% markup.

          This generation sucks.

    • Match!!@pawb.social
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      say the literal acts you want Americans to do or you’re even more cowardly than we are. ICE can’t disappear you if you’re in europe, you don’t need to mince words