• ORbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 hours ago

    “mOsT aMeRiCaNs…”

    Blah, blah, blah. If you can tell me how to un-fuck this nation in a way that will actually wake people up, I’m all ears. But the way I see it, these things were insidiously marketed to the whole country slowly and incrementally, like frog in a slowly warming pot of water. Those of us who jumped out of the pot are watching in horror as the rest get boiled alive.

    The problem is, frogs don’t have opposable thumbs and we can’t turn the gas off - so the pot keeps boiling.

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      3 hours ago

      The best you and I can do is to look out for each other, our friends and family and help anyone else that manages to escape the pot as quickly as possible so they don’t get back in…

      My thoughts are that people are animals and they’ll follow where the majority go, so keep helping others escape the pot and eventually, more will notice there is an exit option and jump as well.

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        3 hours ago

        At the moment, I see this as the only real answer. Until there’s proper organization and resistance, everything is lip service.

        Mobilization is easy - the protests and marches get people together in solidarity. But organization takes effort: it takes talking to people, getting numbers/contact info, making plans and deciding what’s next…

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      If you can tell me how to un-fuck this nation in a way that will actually wake people up

      People are already Woke Up. They’re still powerless.

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        2 hours ago

        Yeah right. Almost half the people I talk to are not happy but are burning their heads in the sand and waiting/hoping for this to blow over. It can’t happen here and all that.

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      1 hour ago

      This doesn’t happen in a bubble though. We need those people too. We need each other.