• TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
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      17 hours ago

      Bear in mind that the riot in Nepal only started after the peaceful student protests was shot at by the police first. The No Kings protest hasn’t been tried to be violently quelled to warrant a public riot, yet.

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        3 hours ago

        This.

        I’ve been saying over and over (down in that R-named shithole that banned me for a short comment approving of revolution,) some folks are gonna have to take a big L to kick it off here.

        The first 50 or so Luigi’s will be dealt with harshly as examples; the public will buy the reasons fed to them and think of them as fucking monsters.

        50 or so and people will start to take notice and see what needs to be accomplished here. Why do so many people hate CEOs? Hell, today, why would some “crazy person” want to hurt Charlie Kirk???

        One more of that 50 got his metaphorical wings today.

        Hmmm.

        They’ll think, and think, and think. Eventually, watching this play out while food becomes out of their price range, their job replaces them with a TV screen of a Filipino lady, a small house hits an average of $500k in price, etc.

        Something’s wrong.

        Nepal got it, man. Enough people put their thinkin’ caps on and figured it out.

        I went to Kent State from 2014-2017. Even met Dean Kahler at a memorial event; he was hit in the spine by a National Guard bullet and paralyzed, confined to a wheelchair for life.

        America isn’t a bright place, intellectually. It’s gonna take cold, raw, painful time for enough people to figure out what is going on and the one way it can be solved.

        That block of time, which we’re in right now, is gonna Fucking. Suck.

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        12 hours ago

        I highly doubt the fascist tRUMP and his like-minded cronies give a shit about people waving signs once every few months or so.
        Or any form of peaceful protests.
        They are probably laughing their voluminous man tits off about it.

        You’ll need to either get violent.
        Or shutdown certain systems, such as roads, on a countrywide scale for extended periods of time before they even think about giving a shit.

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          9 hours ago

          I will respectfully reject your suggestion to turn to violence and encourage others in this thread to also not be incited to do so.

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            8 hours ago

            Ha, there is no incitement because most americans are too complacent and mollycoddled to do anything. Maybe they’ll go for a walk once every few months and wave a sign, but that’s it.
            The orange buffoon knows this, which is why he gets away with all his shit.

            Anyways, what about the other option I mentioned?

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        20 hours ago

        You’re right, this is a half-measure. But I’ll be banned for speaking my mind, so we’ll stick with this.

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          19 hours ago

          Some of us can’t do anything because we’ve got people depending on us to provide. Believe me, if there was ever a time where I could be more active, it would be right fucking now. But unfortunately, that kind of protest is the most I can do at the moment.

          Put your money where your mouth is, go out and find those who are able to do more, and stop vilifying those who can’t afford to.

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            16 hours ago

            Right. Nobody in history who ever fought a righteous cause had a family or anything to lose. They were all just Disney characters whose victory was guaranteed because they were the good guys.

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        20 hours ago

        Yeah, you’re right. Waving signs and voting will totally fix things in the US. Just usual GOP misbehavior, those wily scamps.