Real talk
Real talk
ID: photo of actor Sinbad in a neon pink frame, he has a wide slightly awkward smile, and has his hand out to gesture asking a question, above in pink neon letters it says: "Real talk!" and in the frame next to the photo it says in plain black text: "so are we going to overthrow the fucking government or what?", with his signature bellow
You asshole Americans couldn’t even be bothered to show up and vote against trump, y’all not getting off the couch to overthrow anything but a box of totinos
literally so true.
There was so much yapping and shit throwing going on after the election happened over on lemmy, but nobody wanted to confront the truth that trump did win, because democrats, did not vote.
This is the simple truth. It doesn't matter how hypothetically perfect your ideal candidate is, if you aren't going to fucking vote.
This has been my thought since the election. We're a country of ignorant and selfish people and I'm just kinda trying to live life in the real physical world since that realization. But even then it doesn't make me feel like I live in a shared material reality with people I associate with. Social media has completely cooked a large majority of the country and nobody gives a shit.
Too fucking real dude. I have lost so much hope I didn't even think I had. I am shocked at just how wretched the average American is.
Yeah, we don't have the sauce and now we are drowning in oligarchy controlled media and propaganda.
The best we can do is if Trump actively destroys the economy to the point of where people start to starve.
I think they didn’t show up because they lost hope. There was tons of doomerism and despair on the left leading up to the election. It seems many just threw in the towel.
It’s cowardly, IMO, to give up the fight and wallow in despair, and I confronted the doomerism wherever I saw it, including here, but I wouldn’t characterize it as laziness or asshole behavior.
Depression and deaths of despair have been increasing in the US for decades, and the people who diligently voted blue since the housing crisis have little to show for it. So while I’m angry they didn’t show, I can see why they lost hope. They need a promise of change they can actually believe in.
singood
I'm gonna sin so good
There are a million ways to rebel against the new regime short of armed insurgency. In fact, you are all participating in one of them right now.
Sure, and absolutely, not everyone would need to actively be on the front line of an armed insurgency, but don't fool yourself - this regime, and the systems that enabled it, will never go anywhere without one.
Existing outside the US?
Damn I wish I could do that.
I meant using FOSS rather than feeding the oligopolists, but I’d say existing outside the US counts, especially if you can find additional ways to starve our economy.
Yeah all these angry words are really gonna make them go away huh.
Lol no I meant using and convincing others to use FOSS alternatives to mainstream platforms. It robs GOP collaborators of dollars, data, and agenda setting power. It’s one of many small pebbles that lead to an avalanche.
ID: photo of actor Sinbad in a neon pink frame...
Another feature to add to the wishlist in my head: alt text. Something Bluesky is getting right and something that I had never even considered before using the platform. Plus it's a pretty cool little writing exercise.
Plus it’s a pretty cool little writing exercise.
Not half, it can be a real challenge sometimes! Thankfully there are online image to text converters that do that part, but some images can be surprisingly difficult to describe, especially if I'm low on spoons and or the brain fog is in (E: so I generally move on to an easier one lol).. 😬
Lemmy allows you to provide alt-text with the image already.
Lemmy has alt text support and many web frontends and apps integrate that feature really well, I hope more folks start using it
Sinbad is a real good Christian name
Sinnt
Sinevil
Sinless
Sinleast
Sinnope
Sinpass
Sinstop
Sinblock
Sinbad starred in a movie where he was a secret service bodyguard for the president's son. First Kid (1996).
He also starred in a move where he was a genie
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Wrong dimension, actually.
Time to revolt!
It's like, ok no revolution, how about a strike?
A strike? but my mouth is firmly situated on the teet of this authoritarian regime and if I release it will make them sooo mad!
"A strike, but we will need time to prep!" Didn't you say that when we talked about striking during covid? Why didn't you prep? You have no intention on prepping do you?"
A strike? But who will orginize it and spread the word? Someone's got to do all the thinking and it certainly won't be me!
The Union leaders are working on it. That's the real way strikes happen.
Nice straw men you have there. Have an actual argument against a strike: rent is due.
These are all arguments I've recieved. Would you like me to introduce the strawmen to you?
Rent being due is the exact reason to strike. If we pulled off a general strike that went national do you think the strike would end without addressing the damages its caused?
It's what ever. If you don't have the appetite to strike, you certainly don't have the appetite to revolt.
short answer, no.
Long answer, through politics? yes.
The real answer is to get so active in radical state level politics that we can flip the states rights narrative right back around and get what we want without firing a shot. The beautiful part of that strategy is that the MAGA freaks are already putting 110% of their momentum in that direction.
that would be one of the ways of going about it. You can definitely abuse things like the abortion decisions in regards to states rights.
Unfortunately the republicans never do anything bad ever, and the democrats are literally funded by satan himself, so L plus ratio rip bozo.
Whatever we do, we need to be certain that it will at least provide some net positive to society. That's the hard part.