I need non US Americans to understand that it takes days, almost a whole week to travel across the United States without using a plane.
Using a plane requires you to be and remain unthreatening to the State. To say nothing of the inherent risk of flying with the issues going on regarding Air Traffic Control.
It takes most US Americans hours to get to their state capital.
We are not a European sized country. Descending upon Washington DC en masse is not possible for the average person.
Resisting this dictatorial federal government will need to include ignoring it. Not ignoring the damage it's doing, but operating independently from it. Empires crumble when they get to a size where they cannot exercise local control over their whole land area. Focusing on building dual power and mutual aid is materially beneficial.
@CorvidCrone also if the blm protests taught us anything its that there are no morals to appeal to and the government as a whole doesnt care how upset we are. They would rather kill us than concede one foot away from fascism, and our millitary both foreign and domestic focused are more than happy to open fire. So a mass decent on DC would not play out how it would in europe. I.E. alot of people would die, even if it was a riot unlike what it would most likely be, people holding signs and walking
@budsofstone @CorvidCrone Supporting non-MAGA candidates >> Protesting
A better investment by many orders of magnitude.
Elections have consequences.
@dragonsidedd @budsofstone @CorvidCrone Voting doesnt do anything, you cant really work within the system, its designed to keep change from happening. thats why we build dual power.
@v0idness @budsofstone @CorvidCrone If "voting doesn't do anything", can you please explain how Trump came to power
@dragonsidedd @budsofstone @CorvidCrone Harris wouldnt be much better than trump, harris doesnt really support trans rights and the genocides still happened under biden, either way we were fucked, just we are more fucked undee trump.
@dragonsidedd @budsofstone @CorvidCrone To make actual progressive change we need to build dual power and do other things besides voting. voting alone will NOT save us. the system is designed against our best interests, its only designed for the rich and powerful.
@v0idness @budsofstone @CorvidCrone
> Harris wouldnt be much better than trump
TBH I have no time for this opinion. Harris would most certainly not have the richest man in the world kneecapping science, aid, and social institutions. She would not be doing overt genocide deals with Israel and Russia.
It is improper to painting the convicted rapist and felon as equivalent to the milquetoast candidate you don't personally like.
@dragonsidedd @budsofstone @CorvidCrone i guess my genocide means nothing to you then
@dragonsidedd @budsofstone @CorvidCrone all u liberals are the same, u always side fascism when push comes to shove
"scratch a liberal, and a fascist bleeds"
@dragonsidedd @budsofstone @CorvidCrone trans genocide isnt "milquetoast"
We are so far beyond electoral politics at this point. Like, yes, participate in local elections, but elections are not the be all end all
@CorvidCrone @budsofstone I didn't say "local", though those are important too.
Please point to the examples in the last 100 years of US history where street protests caused significant policy change.
I can point to *every single national election* and show the significant policy changes that resulted from one party or another being voted in.
You've missed the point of the conversation.
The topic of electoral politics has already been covered multiple times in the past year. I'm not going to rehash that for your benefit.
Are you familiar with what dual power and mutual aid are?
@dragonsidedd @CorvidCrone national voting is a farce, in the US. No matter who gets "elected" it will still be a colonial fascist state. Just because the policies inacted by the democratic party didnt affect you doesnt mean they are any less fascist. US fascism didnt start with maga and it most likely wont end with it. This country is functioning the way it was intented to from the start, people really need to stop holding on to a fake history taught too them in school. Go feed some people damn
@dragonsidedd @CorvidCrone the blm protests were during the biden admin. obama extented the patriot act and bombed and invaded all of western asia. Both admins not only did nothing about the human rights violations at the southern border but made them worse. Things arent hopeless but its harder than vote. Make friends with your neighbors, stop buying from corpos, stop and talk too that homeless person you see all the time. See what they need do your best to get it to them, do food not bombs
@budsofstone For now at least they depend on our votes. If we can get the midterms to turn in our favor we have a shot at saving Democracy. If they see enough voices raised it will be the equivalent to mass protests. That we can do even as big as we are area wise. #USPol #tRump #Musk @CorvidCrone
@Pineywoozle @CorvidCrone u didnt read my post at all, I feel. harris is a bastard cop and a war hawk. She supported the crushing of the blm protests
@budsofstone and don't forget the GENOCIDE
@budsofstone I don’t give a flying fuck what anyone thinks of any candidate who isn’t running. She is on record supporting peaceful protests. All she has ever condemned is any kind of violence or looting. My response was to how do we safely & peacefully protest the fascist who are currently in power and would shoot us without a moments hesitation unless we show them massive numbers are engaged. That’s the point of the post you were replying to. Not your opinion of Kamala etc. @CorvidCrone
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