• Ultragigagigantic
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    1 year ago

    Oh no, the country founded by 1%ers who don’t want to pat taxes, and built on I disk burial grounds, is full of crazy violent assholes?

    I’m shocked!

    We aren’t Russia (yet), so we must keep trying to facilitate the change we so desperately need.

    Imo. That would be switching away from first past the post voting in favor of an alternative voting system like Ranked Choice.

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      1 year ago

      You STILL think voting and working within the system will fix this problem?

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          1 year ago

          That doesn’t work against a highly organized system of oppression. That wise man never got a seat of power to abdicate itself through reason or begging.

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                  1 year ago

                  Every step forward has been through violence. It has worked every time. All of our rights came through acts of violence. Asking for them has never, ever , ever worked.

                  • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                    1 year ago

                    we said “yo stop fucking ruling us nerds” and they went “lol ok, but only if you beat us in war” and then we did.

                    I mean to some degree, you aren’t wrong about violence working effectively, that’s definitely accurate.