Who said collaboration, appeasement, and compliance? Only you did. Go re-read what I said. I guess everything in your life is black and white and two things can’t be true at once…

What an alien world we live in

Absolutely that’s true all over the world. However in many dictatorships there are also plenty of well-fed people. Not as many as in a free society of course, but just because it’s a dictatorship doesn’t mean every citizen is starving. That’s not me downplaying Trump becoming a dictator btw, that’s still completely fucking crazy and he needs to be stopped.

lol youngster, no u

“There’s no food in a dictatorship”… You should get offline for a bit and go talk to other people

Not really… it’s just your garden variety corruption. They’re both owned by the same ultra-wealthy corporations and individuals, so of course they’re both doing the bidding of their owners.

(Un)fortunately not enough people across the country have personally experienced severe negative consequences yet. I give it like 6 more months (optimistically) until it gets bad enough for everyone to start mobilizing.

But honestly, would you rather have a fascist dictator and be able to feed and shelter yourself, or have no food and in a violent domestic war? Just something to consider. When people get hungry that’s when action happens as has been historically shown, but who knows what comes after that.

It’d be great if they were toppled and some form of competent leadership and “normalcy” (when was the last normal period that we’d like to return to even?), but with violence comes further instability, death, imprisonment, etc. Ideally we can do everything non-violently within the system, but that hasn’t really worked so… I don’t know…

The mods just do great work in some subs, but completely destroy others. I got banned overall for posting facts in conservative subs…

But I don’t think lemmy fixes that since it has the same mod/channel structure. The nice thing is that advertisers and nefarious actors haven’t started posting as “fellow kids” yet, like they have on Reddit for many years.

Reddit has been shit for like 5+ years at that larger levels, but some small niche hobby and similar subs are still decent.

Thanks for sharing, I didn’t know about him. For anyone else reading this look up the Coal Wars and the Homestead Strike.

Labor has always had to kill, die, and fight against Capital for the rights we have today. They don’t really teach these things in school (I think I learned about the Pinkertons in AP US History) because it would give Labor too much cultural power, but it’s crucial for US citizens (and anyone really) to understand what it has taken to get to where we are.

as long as they see more lgbtq and brown people getting it first, then they’ll have “won” in their minds

Sounds like it’s they want another fight akin to the 19th and early 20th centuries…

“Empathy is a sin”

Do you honestly think Trump is gonna “go down”? How would you envision that? I’m worried he’s going to Kissinger it and live for another 15 years.

I’m so looking forward to see this sniveling coward arrested and locked up (or worse) when this regime falls down.

Yes I know that’ll probably not happen that way but it gives me something to look forward to. Like solarpunk ideas, it gives me something to fight for rather than just something to fight against.

I care about his health and it’s heartbreaking that he doesn’t have a choice or know how much his mom is a sociopathic piece of shit.

OTHER

I think you meant “brown”

Get fucked Rachel. I hope you feel every possible pain that you voted for.

That’s not why I shared that though. They need to be tried and put in prison for their crimes, but I never said hunted…

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/27/climate-crisis-villains-americas-dirty-dozen