• granolabar@kbin.melroy.org
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    I know we loved the leaded solution and we won’t cry if more happens but yeah at the of the day the system will need a legal reform to properly depose the parasites.

    Shootings might continue until morale improves?

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      My morale is already improving personally. 3 lead tablets a day keeps the insurance companies at bay. Guaranteed to get you a better rate.

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    We’ve had several mass movements about it over the past 15~20 years, the only thing that has worked so far is lead poisoning.

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    But when I say the same solution I get banned from communities for being a “coward” and “copaganda.”

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      I think if Bernie suggested murdering all the CEOs he’d get banned from his communities, though.

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    Word is, when Bernie first saw the news of the murder, he said, “Fuck yes.”

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      If it weren’t for Hillary and the DNC being corrupt, Bernie would have destroyed trump in 2016. I know so many people where I was living in middle America that flipped from Bernie to Trump.

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        Alright but Hillary Clinton beat Bernie Sanders in the Primary Elections, so the “corruption” you’re referring to is like 30 Million People.

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            Yeah, vote totals were like 16 Million for Hillary Clinton and 13 Million for Bernie Sanders. Maybe if more people voted in the primaries we would see Bernie at the helm.

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          Yes, because of the “super” delegates which was like 20 people who can automatically outvote the other hundreds of delegates.

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            It was real close except for the millions more people who voted for Hillary.

            Edit: sorry for the transparency making it hard to read on dark modes.

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      I’d step back onto the streets with Bernie at the head again. A small part of me still holds that hope from 2016.

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        So many fucking years ago. Ended any passion I had towards politics.

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          Yeah… it’s hard. If it wasn’t for my student loans I’d only have about $4000 in leftover reoccurring bills outside of the usual living expenses such as rent and utilities today. Back then I donated more to a campaign than I have donated before or since combined for anything I worked hard. Talked to everyone. Helped found a subreddit for election and voting protection through information. I even went to local watch parties.

          I think we are ready for that again. Many of us would stand and fight with Bernie, Jon Stewart, AOC. Most of us who were a part of that understand why people chose to not vote for the status quo. But man, fuck, it’s tiring feeling so disjointed and at best loosely aligned.

          We need a community.

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      The others can read the room too; they’re just in an entirely different room.

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    Mass movements can do lots of things, but we can’t even get a majority of people to vote…

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      Voting is how we got here…

      Political proces and utterly captured

      Otherwise we would have had Bernie 2016.

      I am tired of political clowns pretending like politics is the solution, it is key part of the problem.

      Did you see how politicians are reacting here.

      Besides Bernie that is

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      Because people don’t feel represented in the current FPTP voting-system, which to be fair, was designed by wealthy romans to benefit wealthy romans.

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      As it turns out, you only need like around 5% of the population to start a revolution (if even that amount). Revolutions have been started with even fractions of a percent.

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      We can get a majority of those that do vote to vote for Trump so I am not that hopeful.

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      What’s easier, motivating hundreds of thousands of people to get out and protest, or letting a few moderately motivated people take direct action?