• orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    18 hours ago

    What ever you say, chief. Is this the America you want? Even the frazzled, frayed, bullshit afterward will have higher prices, poorer healthcare, a dumber populace, and a complacent set of people who have lost hope.

    We need a true revolution with meaningful reform. Sitting back and letting it ride won’t be enough.

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      4 hours ago

      I don’t see the solution in mass uprising in America, sadly. The ownership class has done such a thorough and successful job of dividing the working class, not even just left and right, but the people with a small vacation home and a boat thinking they’re any closer to billionaires than I am working paycheck to paycheck. That false superiority and financial contentment will keep them from getting uncomfortable enough to join a movement, and keep stumping for the status quo that got them there. The rest of us, the bottom of the working class, are so split along ideological lines that I don’t think we could ever cooperate. I certainly know that I would have to swallow bile to stand next to a MAGA that wanted to strip my wife of her rights.

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      17 hours ago

      To be fair they didn’t say sit back and letting it ride.

      There is also a limited amount any person can do and for some they do have to ride it through.

      Do let us work on meaningful reform!

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        8 hours ago

        Revolution does not mean violence. It means change. Even Thomas Jefferson said we need a revolution every 60 years.

        However, to your question, yes. What else is worth fighting for?