• Sunflier
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    I believe your representatives could do something if people started voting in their best interest.

    Both parties are bought and paid for by the same plutocrats.

    A basic social safety net in a first world country should be the standard

    The United States is a third world shithole that mascarades as first world (see bribes as previously mentioned).

    The general populous in the US is too conservative and resistant to change.

    Mandami shows that to be untrue. The Epstein class has merely kept the political system from ensuring the wellbeing of the population (see bribes above).

    Even if I had cancer and UHC denied to give me healthcare treatment killing the CEO wouldn’t immediately resolve my issues with denials.

    Maybe. Maybe it’ll change the calculation to make it too expensive to deny people care/living wages (See Paper Mario).

    The policies applied are horrible but that doesn’t justify murder.

    “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” -Kennedy

    Soap box (See, e.g., Colbert and the like)

    Ballot box (watch the games that are already kicking off about this, especially with support from the bribes as previously mentioned)

    Jury box

    Ammo box

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      NYC populous is not the average voting population tho. The US party system is broken in a way it only allows for two parties to emerge. I think primaries allow for a more granular choice for the average person tho. The Kennedy quote is true, but I’m not giving up that peaceful change is impossible.

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        I’m not giving up that peaceful change is impossible.

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        No that is not what I was saying. I’m saying the system is broken and the root cause. Fix the problem by changing the system, not by murdering random individuals that are part of the current system. That only causes more pain and suffering

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          What do you think people have been trying to do to reach the point of turning to violence.

          You think that was their first option? You think its so easy then you go out there and put your money where your mouth is. I wana see you get clubbed in the head by a cop, or shot with rubber bullets point blank and pepper sprayed in the eyes. Go ahead tell me how that works out. You’re a useless idiot.

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          The individuals causing the issue IS the system. This is how it’s always supposed to work, there is always a populace business people need to subjugate. Through history. Stop thinking the system is broken and needs fixing. It needs tearing out with all the horrible people in it.