• CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de
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    20 days ago

    Hey, Americans, this is what happens when you stay silent.

    Go burn down the city hall or something. Stop posting. Start doing.

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      20 days ago

      But at least they saved Palestine. They did save Palestine, didn’t they…?

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          20 days ago

          And her unrealized gains tax over a Million would have destroyed the US Economy! We did save the economy, right? /s

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          20 days ago

          Just because Trump is crazy that doesn’t make genocide support by not Trump okay suddenly. Get over it

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              20 days ago

              Said by someone that’s not in their position. It’s like, “those shitty slaves in North Korea are not doing enough.” Yeah, we can’t outfight the military people.

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                19 days ago

                we can’t outfight the military people

                I thought that was the whole idea with having guns, so you wouldn’t get oppressed by the government. So, now there is no reason for everyone to have guns?

              • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                20 days ago

                That’s literally what has happened in like every regime before change. Standing up to the power in place.

                I’m happy I don’t have to do that, but you must if you want change.

                You can also start small with a national strike.

            • plyth@feddit.org
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              20 days ago

              But neither is there for Europe. We knew that the chemical weapons in Iraq were fake and we knew that there was no UN mandate for Syria and the one for Libya was stretched. We have known about Venezuela since the aircraft carrier was sent at the end of October. Now Greenland is closer to home, and we know about the social networks and the groomed politicians. What are we going to do to make a difference?

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            20 days ago

            So, your projection is that Harris would have done the same as the Trump admin? Like a “Harris Tower Hotel” in Gaza City, with the involvement of Harris’s family members in the deal?

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                20 days ago

                Even the Biden administration was putting pressure on Israel to stop. They should have forced them, but they didn’t. There was at least a disapproval of their actions.

                Trump basically gave them the green light and said do it faster please.

                Neither good, but one approach was better

            • pendel@feddit.org
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              20 days ago

              Harris would not have stopped the genocide. There’s no genocide light. It’s either you’re complicit in genocide or not. Trump is objectively a horrible person and I would have never voted for him but that doesn’t make Harris not a genocide supporter.

              I thought we were past this blue MAGA bullshit.

              • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
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                20 days ago

                So… just to confirm:

                At best, Harris would have been no better for the people of Palestine than trump. And trump is demonstrably worse for basically the entire rest of the world (pretty sure Harris wouldn’t be threatening war on Denmark/the EU, for example).

                So… your lack of a vote (which is effectively a vote for trump when you math it out) did absolutely nothing for the people you claim to care about while actively hurting everyone else.

                Good job owning the libs, I guess?

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                  20 days ago

                  People have different values, and they approach voting differently. You vote based on utilitarian ethics, but there are other moral philosophies. And ultimately utilitarianism is a deeply flawed ethical system.

                  Learn to be a good citizen in a pluralistic democracy. Your way is not the only way. Learn some humility.

                  • ɯᴉuoʇuɐ@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                    20 days ago

                    People have different values

                    I’m worried by people whose values say that when presented with the trolley problem the correct thing to do is to criticise the system in which people get tied to the tracks instead of just pulling the lever and then dealing with the system.

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                  20 days ago

                  I‘m not American so I can’t vote for either of them, nor have I ever been to the US. But I have family in places where we had the pleasure of dealing with Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden, and frankly, neither of them has done us any good to say it very mildly.

                  • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
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                    20 days ago

                    Ah. So you are just encouraging people who CAN vote to… hurt you and everyone else.

                    Heads up: If your homeboy offers you something to drink, avoid it. Probably full of novichok.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      20 days ago

      Go burn down the city hall or something.

      Yeah, smart. Burn down a city hall to stop the federal government. Makes total sense.

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        19 days ago

        Nothing will ever make sense to fascism enablers.

        You do you. Just keep that blaming game on point. That’s all you’ve ever known.

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          19 days ago

          It just seems like you have no idea how the US government functions so maybe take a step back. The country is larger than your entire continent, burning down any city hall would barely even make news in DC

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            19 days ago

            And if it did it would just get the national guard deployed in your city. And the city government wouldn’t be able to do anything to help, because their office burnt down…

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      20 days ago

      They won’t. At least, not in significant enough numbers to matter. It’s easy to type that, but quite another thing if it’s your life and livelihood on the line.

      Historically, revolutions don’t happen without someone pretty organised and powerful to arrange them, like the Jacobins. And even then they usually fail.

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          20 days ago

          Yeah and that “nothing happened” was because the fucking President organized it and pardoned everyone. Once again, the already powerful tend to prop up revolutions. None of the powerful here will benefit from us having a revolution unless it didnt actually change anything. No one is coming to end this. Americans better band together and figure out what they can do with some string and a pack of matches.

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          20 days ago

          It was on behalf of the President and his party, and it was never anywhere close to seriously threatening government power. A few individual politicians, maybe.

          I guess, what’s your point?