• ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one
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    1 month ago

    “The poors won’t revolt” is all copium.

    “No one is going to revolt as we’re all sheep” is all doomerism.

    People have a breaking point. Look at what is happening in Minnesota, Syria, the Arab Spring, Occupy Wallstreet, the Civil Rights, Idle No More, Palestine Resistance, the end of Apartheid in South Africa, etc. All these events happened because people hit their breaking point. Anger is powerful motivator.

    People will have to decide is it worth dying the street for change or dying not doing anything.

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      1 month ago

      All these events happened because people hit their breaking point.

      And all resulted in no meaningful change or even worse circumstances.

      I don’t consider myself a doomer, but I can also read a history book and know full well that while this may be satisfying in the short term, in a few weeks or months everything will go back to the shitty normal.

      Our only power now is local.

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        1 month ago

        And all resulted in no meaningful change or even worse circumstances.

        The US Civil Rights movement and the end of Apartheid in South Africa would seem to be pretty unambiguous examples in the above improving circumstances.

        The world is shit. Nothing will can immediately achieve will make it not shit. But we can make it less shit, step by step. We have. And, huffing my hopium, we will continue to do so.