• chahn.chris@piefed.social
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      Guess what? Americans are doing what they can and should at the moment.

      There are protests, strikes, election defense programs, community organization, signal mobilization, and more.

      It’s not being reported by the media because it’s all propaganda. Democracy needs to do its thing unfortunately and that takes time.

      There’s a LOT that needs to be done and tried before it turns into something more dramatic. We need to have mid term elections, need to see them be fair, and then let the democratic accountability take hold.

      If that fails, then there’s more. But that has to fail, and people need to stop saying it will fail before it does. We don’t need more agitation, it sucks here right now, but the tide is turning at the pace of democracy. If you want something faster you’re asking for fascism to replace fascism and nobody should want that.

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        There are protests, strikes, election defense programs, community organization, signal mobilization, and more.

        I have to watch other sources to see that this is happening, it’s fucking disgusting man. If the media was run on “outrage” as it seems to be … it’s weird how so much of this isn’t being reported.

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          Trump’s friends are buying up all the legacy media too. Hell, Larry Ellison, an Israel loyalist, is buying warner bros to get CNN. Already owns CBS and other stuff through Paramount Skydance. Or his son does, anyway.

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            It doesn’t have much to do with the politics directly, but I have been watching gamers nexus coverage for my tech related geopolitics and they have been great in their coverage of topics like the circular money scheme in the ai sector & the silicon shortage.

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          It’s not weird, mainstream media is owned by the oligarchs and they want this crap.

          Independent media however is having a foundational moment and it’s helping me get through this.

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          As the previous comment hinted at, if you are going to use firearms to enact change it will invite an elevation in hostilities that is impossible to predict the outcome of, but will likely hinder the Democratic systems even more than they already are.

          IMO guns are likely only going to appeal to people if at the very least the midterms don’t go the way we think it should. This is mainly because the opposition to the current government happens to be the main demographic that dislikes firearms.

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          The thing that made sense when everyone had the same shitty muskets?

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        A full third of America said ‘i don’t care’ when the writing was on the wall in bright flashing lights.

        Fuck off. Americans invited this. Reap what you sow, loers.