• umbrellacloud@leminal.space
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    16 days ago

    You know the people who ‘lecture the rest of the world about muh democracy’ are billonares, and the people you’re asking to solve the problem are peasents and homeless people, right?

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                16 days ago

                I’m asking because it’s common for Canadians to not understand that America has actual fascism, not just like on TV or the news. Like, the kind where the government rigs elections and kills random people who accidentally piss them off? And it’s been like that for at least 30 years to varying degrees? That level of political subjugation requires that the masses are powerless and unaware to some degree, and that they literally do not have the means to do anything about it. I’m not saying it’s hopeless or impossible, but expecting Americans to just somehow fix it by ‘voting differently’ and by not being assholes anymore is sort of weird?? Please tell me if I am incorrect, but didn’t Trump lose in 2016 and then was elected by the Electorial College? What exactly do you expect people to do, and what do you expect people to do that would take effect within the next few years?

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                    16 days ago

                    You’re telling me to discuss violent political revolution over social media, and you’re using a pre-Internet society as a model for said hypothetical.

                    I’m talking to a crazy person. I apologize for engaging.

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      16 days ago

      You know the us is a democracy with more peasants and homeless people than billionares, right?