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[–] 53 points 1 year ago

Set fire to the Capitol. Got it

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    trump didn't give a blanket "y'all either obey me or you're out" to all social media, blocking all except tiktok, no wonder 'muricans are still sleeping

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    You can make the meme for most countries in the west. The past couple days have been us celebrating the latest Banksy performative protest as if that's done anything more than be more art in the ocean of art to be snooty about socially and continue on with the ever weak art based protest. 30 years of performative art centric leftist culture and 30 years of neoliberalism shifting further and further to the right

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    At this point I'm pretty sure at least half the people cirtisizing lack of violence in America are feds trying to get people to spill incriminating evidence. You look stupid complaining online about not hearing about shit you can't say online. No one's booting up an onion router to brag to some shithead on lemmy about how they returned a tear gas canister to the cops.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    There's a bunch of keyboard warriors demanding OTHERS take action. And I wish there was a mass tagging tool so we can root out these provocateurs.

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  • Provocateurs is almost too generous a term for them, it's like opsec 101 not to post shit like that on extremely public forums no matter how anonymized they claim to be. It's basically like when your IT department secretly sends sketchy emails to test if you're dumb enough to click it.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    What happened in Nepal? Ive not been in lemmy, or news sites in almost a month. Im very out of the loop on this one.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I love Lemmy and I enjoy that it's less of a constant news+politics festival than Reddit, but the downside of that is that you won't get exposure to some pretty important events just by browsing the top posts. You have to go to a news comm, can't rely on the community to put the most important news at the top. Many days there have been huge news events and the top Lemmy posts are all comics and memes - nothing wrong with that! The community can be whatever it wants. But as a user , especially if you're coming from Reddit, you've gotta know to supplement your news with other sources (which really you should be doing anyways).

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Yeah, I get that. Thats not what this is though. Ive been on lemmy ever since the reddit API exodus fiasco. This was an intentional, out of the loop moment on my part. Ive been so focused on whats going on in the news over the last 6 months, it was starting to affect my mental health, so I took a break from lemmy.

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  • [–] 53 points 1 year ago (53 children)

    Careful, every American on Lemmy has about 6 or 7 thought-stopping cliches ready to defend their cowardly fucking inaction.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I am more than pleased to be proven wrong.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago* (28 children)

    The fact that you're posting this means you're not dead or in prison, which thought-stopping cliche will you use to explain your cowardly inaction?

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  • [+] -17 points 1 year ago* (27 children)

    Or maybe I don’t live in a shithole country?

    You guys’ America-centric assumptions are really more in line with what we tend to see from MAGA chuds. Guess I shouldn’t be surprised that you aren’t fighting back too hard.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (17 children)

    It sure is easy to criticize people for inaction when you're at no risk yourself.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Inaction isn't going to keep you safe.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Neither is poorly planned action.

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  • [–] -4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I sure hope that means you are involved in planning actions instead of using it as an excuse to do nothing.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I am, and frankly I find the default assumption that the people criticizing ineffective action aren't engaged in effective action to be extremely condescending.

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  • [+] -11 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    The people the rest of the world has been warning for decades that this very situation would occur if you kept doing what you were doing? The people who got belligerent and shitty when we pointed out the path they were on? Easy to criticize them? Yeah, it very much is.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    This is Lemmy, the vast majority of Americans here lean hard left. We knew. What exactly were we supposed to do? Die immediately in an immature revolution? Magically devise the perfect argument to overcome a century of anti-left propaganda?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    This reminds me of a recurrent thing in life: someone competes following a set of rules, and the other player doesn't follow them. Of course that gives them an advantage.

    There are two logical options to make the game fair again:

    1)finding a way to make the second player follow the original rules

    2)accepting the new game with its changed rules

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  • [+] -14 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

    No, you’re right, you’ve done plenty. You should feel very pleased with your effort. You deserve a rest, even. Have yourself a nap and I promise nobody will wake you up to tell you how goofy it is that you just called Americans on Lemmy “hard left” 😅

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    criticizes what other people are doing

    does nothing

    WHY ARENT YOU GUYS DOING ANYTHING BUT POSTING ON THE INTERNET? does nothing but post on the internet

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  • [+] -6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Did you miss the part where they don't live in the US? Do you lack reading comprehension or is this just your go to thought stopping cliche?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Ah yes, they live in the mystical land of Canada, that does no wrong at all, and definitely hasnt done ANYTHING wrong, especially to their indigenous people. the mystical far off country far away from Canada, where there's nothing he could do but spew hate! Do you realize how far away Canada is? All he can do is advocate violence, can you imagine how hard it would be to get to the US?

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago

    Fucking Americans. "Why can't you do it for us? Just cross a boarder into a country descending into fascism and stop it so that we don't have to do anything."

    Criticized for not taking action and the response is "can't you do it for me?"

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    The people who got belligerent and shitty when we pointed out the path they were on? Easy to criticize them? Yeah, it very much is.

    A bunch of us have had to live right next door to these people the whole time. Sometimes it's so ridiculous that I think the simulation overseers are experimenting with the opposite of the simulated utopia from The Matrix that failed. Is there a level of absurdity that will get us to reject the simulation en masse?

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I guess I should quit my job and condemn my family to destitution because some guy on Lemmy called me a pussy for not fighting the government. Rofl.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Right, that's what the rest of the world is waiting on Americans to do: quit their job.

    "Do nothing" is so ingrained in the American psyche that when pushed to do something the only thing they can think of is doing even less.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    No. I'm not quitting my job. That's the dumbest fucking thing anyone could suggest. Grow up.

    If there's a general strike, I'll participate. Quitting my job and condemning my family to starve? Fuck outta here with that childish nonsense.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    No one actually suggested you quit your job. YOU'RE the one that said that and I was pointing out the absurdity that that is the first and only place you go. Are you lost?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Or maybe I don’t live in a shithole country?

    lmao yeah right chud. They're all shitholes especially yours.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago

    As long as you can point to a country you believe is doing worse there is no reason to want yours to do better. You are just mainlining that propaganda aren't you?

    "America is the greatest country on earth!"*

    *Not due to actually being great in any way, just due to the fact that we believe other countries are at least slightly worse, and that's good enough for me!

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)
  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Do you imagine people in Nepal to have big savings accounts and investments in NVidia?

    Truth is - if you are not bothered enough by the situation to risk your confort and way of life, then you are ok with the situation and accept it.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Honestly? People who are living paycheck to paycheck have MORE reasons to risk everything and FAR fewer excuses for allowing the status quo to persist. Who the fuck do you think should be burning shit down if not the people most victimized by it?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    people SHOULD go out and die. not me tho. other people.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Right, let me book a flight to another country whose citizens can't be bothered to fight back on their own to show them how it's done.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago*

    We tried in 2020, libs quickly coopted the movement by pretending to be at the front of it and that we had less radical demands, defused it by pretending to agree to those demands, and then supported republicans in opposing any of the demands, with Biden telling states to divert covid funds to police. Before I left, people seemed too tired and beaten down to really try again.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Lemmy is so USA centric they did not notice the people sponsoring Nepal's protests are the exactly the same people in charge of USA right now.

    The ban on USA big tech industry is a sovereignty statement, and every country should do that, USA is literally stealing data from other countries, since data is the new gold, the name of the game is digital colonialism, you should read more about that if you have more than two brain cells

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Source?

    Second part - Every country that currently has the capability is “stealing” data. I’m not deflecting from the US’s actions, but let's do the math here and pick something that everyone isn’t in the same glass house together.

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  • [–] -5 points 1 year ago

    Yeah, sure let's keep pretending that there's not only few countries in the world where the US CAN NOT steal data because they LOST a war

    As I said Lemmy is very US centric, you guys are not able to look at any thing else other than your own aases

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