• Wahots@pawb.social
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      7 days ago

      Not too much can be done, since a ton of the country sat with their thumbs up their asses instead of voting. Republicans control all three branches of government now.

      In two years, after permanent damage has been done to the government, the climate, and the economy, we may have another shot at at least slowing things down via Congress IF people actually vote for sane people.

      And in four, potentially a new presidency and Congress. But that could be dicy, since there’s going to be little stopping corrupt officials from screwing with democratic safeguards now that the government is teeming with freaks and degenerates under its skin.

      Aside from lawsuits from Democrats, I think the federal government is going to be in complete freefall for the next two years, bare minimum. Thanks fascists and nonvoters. You really fucked the entire world this time. Fucking malicious idiots.

          • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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            6 days ago

            Agitate liberals until they realize they can’t wait until the next election to act. I can’t do shit by myself, but if all the liberals who are sitting around waiting for elections realized they have to act now we’d have a chance.

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              But to reiterate,

              So what’s your plan?

              You say “they have to act now” but what actions need to be taken?

              Are you saying mass protest? Armed rebellion? What are you suggesting?

              • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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                I think work stoppages and militant mass strike action would be more effective. The right cares about their bottom line. Hurt their business interests and they’ll crumble.

                The AFL-CIO should be aligning their contract dates for May 1st 2028. They should be organizing solidarity strikes and boycotts. They should recognize the NLRB is effectively dead in the water and begin planning for being made illegal. They should be arming their workers and encouraging armed picketing.

                If Democrats weren’t worthless, they’d use their close connections with the AFL-CIO to help organize. But they won’t, because that would hurt their business interests too.

                So we have to do it ourselves.

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                  You say the democrats are “worthless” when they were the ones that got out and voted. The far left is notorious for sitting their smug, entitled asses at home- protesting for single-issue bullshit while everyone else busts their ass to stand in the way of a dictator-

                  They you have the fucking nerve to come here land lay blame at the feet of others?

                  That’s some Olympic-level mental gymnastics.

      • blakenong@lemmings.world
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        7 days ago

        We all have suggestions, but we get banned for saying them. So, instead of trying to get people banned, maybe suggest your own solutions.

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          Maybe we need to start moving to instances where we won’t be banned for saying that stuff.

          Isn’t the fediverse supposed to be resistant to censorship?

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            7 days ago

            Theoretically yes, but the mods can still be corrupt. For example, we could go to your, ML, and be censored for talking about China in any way but positive. Even if it is pointing out the very very real event that happened at Tiananmen Square. Or, that China is not in the slightest bit communist.

            Perhaps they will yell at me about genocide in order to get me not to vote so that Trump will win and they will be successful in overthrowing the west?

            So, yes…. We ALL need to find an instance with no mods. There may be some rough talk, but at least we would be free.

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                We can have an open place to talk here too. The problem is who controls what is allowed, and what are their motivations? What we need is an instance that doesn’t allow signups, or community creation. Anyone can participate, but if can’t be defederalized because of bad users, like ML, hexbear, etc.

                With no moderation (except spam), a small group of mods cannot control the message.

                • Doug Holland@lemmy.world
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                  6 days ago

                  Can’t have the kind of free speech you’re hoping for, on a public forum, without also welcoming Nazis and child molesters and long rants about Lizard-people.