ID: line drawing of an upright bunny with a black bandana tied around their neck, holding a lit match in their mouth like you might a toothpick. The text says “we can’t just vote fascism away, the time has come to disobey. (be brave!)”

  • Zachariah@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    We could have voted it away. And it would have been way easier than the alternatives. But we chose not to.

    But since we didn’t organize to vote it away, I’m not sure how we’re going to organize a general strike. And anything else is so difficult and so messy and has very little guarantee of improving anyone’s conditions.

    • ShareMySims@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      2 hours ago

      We could have voted it away.

      Lmfao, news flash: it’s already here, has been for a while.

      Never mind that never in history has tyranny ever been voted away. To think otherwise you must completely misunderstand what tyranny and fascism are, as well as how the current establishment functions.

      • Perhapsjustsniffit@lemmy.ca
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        57 minutes ago

        Vote it away. It’s been a joke for so long and people cling to the idea that it works so badly. I am Canadian. We are also past voting. The systems of government must be torn down. They are corrupt and do not work for the people.

        • ShareMySims@sh.itjust.worksOP
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          45 minutes ago

          Hear hear…

          I’m in the UK and we have the same situation + monarchy, for added funsies. I keep thinking people are getting enough of a glimpse behind the curtain at the fact that the system wasn’t designed to serve them, but to centralise power in the hands of very few people who exploit the rest to continuously strengthen their own power, but part of those efforts are the propaganda, and it just goes to show how well it works that despite so much ugly truth being revealed over and over, some people still see “my team vs your team” as the only way to exist. It’s both sad and very scary.

    • Smith6826@sopuli.xyz
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      2 hours ago

      We could have voted it away.

      Don’t forget gerrymandering and other fraudulent methods of deciding victory like the electoral college being baked into this diseased system.

      They only give the illusion of choice.

      • rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee
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        30 minutes ago

        None of that stopped Biden from winning last time when people actually showed the fuck up to the polls.

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          14 minutes ago

          The 2-parties in this monopolized system are owned by the same corporate interests and mega-rich. Everything is by their design. We never had a choice.

          The system will never work for us, because it’s working as intended. We need to annihilate it and start from scratch. There is no fixing it from the inside and hoping the next person isn’t just another lesser evil to vote for.

      • nonailsleft@lemm.ee
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        34 minutes ago

        No no no I’m sure you know those that couldn’t even be bothered to go vote, those people are now getting ready to man the barricades