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[–] WiseWoodchuck 57 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Remember article 5 of NATO, an attack on a member is an attack on all members! We must show support for the trans and gender nonbinary communities while we organize with the hope of flipping the legislature in the midterms two years from now.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

an attack on a member is an attack on all members!

Yes!

organize with the hope of flipping the legislature in the midterms two years from now.

Jfc, no..

What the fuck more will it take for people to understand that you can't vote fascism away???!!!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Lemmy is for some reason overcome with peak electoralism brainrot and thinks that instead of being the barest fucking minimum of effort, voting is actually the peak of political praxis. Frankly, it's bizarre.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Since you can't say guillotines, or the law would persecute Lemmy itself. If it happens, it won't be televised, that's for sure.

[–] FlyingSquid 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

There's no law against saying things like, "we should all get together on courthouse squares across the country for collective action next weekend" that would persecute Lemmy. But people are no longer interested in collective action, it seems.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

It's hard to take action if you're just one MAGA shithead with a gun (or oversized truck) away from either death or life-destroying debt. Even worse, your police force is badly trained and known to be full of shit. Civil disobedience blocking roads or doing similar, peaceful options come with an immediate threat to life and limb. And picking up a gun yourself to potentially defend yourself against the state is whole other caliber of action, you're basically forced into an insurrection.

Without these fears I'm sure there would be more action. I've just witnessed my city of Hamburg, Germany, basically blocking the whole center with up to 80.000 people as a reaction to the so-called "christian democrats" and neolibs working together with the AfD nazis in Berlin (who failed). Because the only thing we have to fear are crazy truck drivers and another nazi regime. Hell, we can even blockade streets without previous permission without the police getting out guns or batons (they will use 'pain compliance holds' though; not everything is perfect).

I really hope that, after this deep dark nightmare you're descending into, you'll get better and go above and beyond with democracy and FAIR economics, learning from your past mistakes and enshrining safeguards into a newly reformed constitution. Like Germany did.

[–] FlyingSquid 1 points 11 hours ago

More? I haven't seen any.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago

There will be no more fair voting in the US with Elon controlling the US IT infrastructure

[–] FlyingSquid 3 points 14 hours ago

Republicans control all three branches of government. There is not a chance they will give any of that up voluntarily. And people still think elections will be in any way fair and free.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 9 hours ago

Yes. Please don't vote. Send the dems a message! It'll surely make everything better

Trump vote with a MAJORITY of votes this time.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Surely if we ask politely they'll go away right? I mean, happened with hitler, mussolini, and also with franco! Specially with him!

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This is a divide and conquer tactic, trying to turn lesbians into TERFs and gays into whatever the gay man equivalent of that is (TERG?). Don't let it work.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Speaking of NATO, when do they, I dunno, wanna get involved in removing an obvious bad actor? Actors? I don’t see anyone else bothering, or even coming close to being able to.