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Are we winning yet? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I'd like to thank everyone for my most upvoted post on lemmy ever. Not only have you upvoted it to the top for like 2 days you commented the shit out of it. I'd like to take this opportunity to say fuck the mods of this instance. This was my second post coming off a 30 day ban and I want to say these fucking mods have been nothing but bitches. I've never been more attacked on any other instance, subreddit, forum, etc. then I have been in this fucking instance. Not only have I been attacked I've been told my memes arent memey enough again and again.

I'll be honest, I do not know how to make a meme but I keep posting just to piss in these mods cheerios.

Thanks lemmy.world/politicalmemes for being the worst community I've ever been a part of.

Edit2: What a joke

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (3 children)

We still have too much to lose in a revolt. Most people are still materially comfortable (or at least that hasn't changed because of Trump).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hasnt changed cause of trump yet

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 days ago (40 children)

Bro isnt this why you have a second amendment?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Originally, yes. In the last 50 years, no.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago (2 children)

We gotta wait for the people with all the guns to feel the pinch.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

But if Americans revolt, they’ll miss the next season of the great British bake off. They can’t risk it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

The ones passionate about guns are the same uneducated ones sucking on the propaganda tit. They're just starting to get inklings that it might have been a bad idea, unfortunately most of them will stick their fingers in their ears and say it'll all be just fine.

IMO 70:30 we won't revolt, the silent majority doesn't like it, but just accepts the Nazi overtake.

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I was told this is what all the guns are for?

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

its been so long since i've seen an angry german kid meme.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I've been seeing a resurgence of 2010s memes lately and I am all for it. The millenials have awoken

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[–] Varyk 133 points 2 days ago (103 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/50501

they are protesting literally Nationwide in front of every Capital in every state.

[–] [email protected] 165 points 2 days ago (50 children)

Okay I'll be blunt here: This is nothing and if this is Americans' idea of resisting then y'all are never going to beat fascism. Historians will look at this period and say there was very little popular resistance to Trump's regime.

[–] [email protected] 85 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (33 children)

I want you to understand what it is you're talking about when you say things like this:

You are asking for what it's the equivalent of all of Europe revolting against leadership that never leaves Prague.

America is really fucking big. I live in Seattle. I have been protesting. But my state officials are already more or less on my side

For me to protest in a way that actually causes a problem for the people in power I would need to drive no less than 41 hours if I didn't sleep. Realistically it's 3-4 days each way. Or hundreds of dollars in airfare or train tickets.

And of course I'd be fired for missing work.

I'm pissed as any American but what the fuck am I supposed to do? Asking America to revolt isn't like asking England or France or Belgium. Our leaders are in a proverbial ivory tower and we've been stripped of any ability to effect change through anything but a national strike, which has not been successfully organized, largely due to the scale required.

We have 341m people on 10M km² of land. Compare that to somewhere like Germany with 84m people on 357k km²

It's a much easier proposition getting 10% of Germans to their capital than getting 10% of Americans to ours

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[–] [email protected] 93 points 2 days ago (5 children)

So many Americans have taken the oath of defending the constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. They should all be on their way to the White House to actually follow this oath.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (6 children)

It takes guts and strength. In the mass of population, this is found in people who have nothing to lose. Today, you always have something to lose. It's called comfort. If you don't have comfort, someone's pressuring you in one way or another, and you don't have strength to rebel. You can't. Literally.

If you have comfort, why would you rebel at all.

Then, anything goes, no matter how offended you are.

The stupidest win because of fear. They are not inherently stupid, they just make the stupid choice. Making a stupid choice doesn't make you stupid forever (except in the US).

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 days ago (27 children)

It will have to get a lot worse domestically before this happens

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (24 children)

Revolt? Americans proved that they would rather let the country burn under a fascist psychopath than oppose him and vote for an imperfect alternative. Americans get what they deserve, even the left went full toxic American this election, they can’t unify to oppose shit.

The American leftists are currently surrounded by the fire and wreckage of their future while going “take that democrats”

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

well, having the most overfunded military plus homeland security plus NSA&fbi makes a revolt kinda suicidal….
but hey, we can buy rifles

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

rifles don't mean shit if you can't aim

just ask... ahem that person that missed the target by centimeters when he went hunting last year

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Don't forget ICE has broad extra judicial powers when you're within 500 miles of a boarder, ocean, or river.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

These are the kind of people that can't even run into each others without going ballistic over a simple greeting and you expect them to enact a revolt LMAO 🤣

[–] [email protected] 70 points 2 days ago (49 children)

Look here Europe. I don't know how well y'all understand the states, but it's unfathomably large. People in the big cities can definitely organize and revolt. But, against who?

The power is concentrated in Washington DC. It's in an extremely inconvenient location to get to, and I'm starting to understand why.

The last person who was able to amass a large enough following to organize people and march all the damn way to Washington DC was assassinated by the FBI - more specifically J. Edgar Hoover, one of the OG Incel MAGATs. The last president that was able to advocate for the same rights was assassinated by the same group.

Malcom X could see that the only way the US government would change was through speaking the language it knew, but he, too, was taken out by the FBI.

The billionaires in power speak the same language. They wear children as meat shields. They spark violent rhetoric. They won't hesitate to take out a figurehead before he becomes too powerful like King, JFK, and Malcom X.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

I have bad aim... 😓

...in video games, obviously 😉

(Also, my eyesight kinda sucks too...)

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