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[–] damwab@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago

Not just America, the entire world works like this. It's sadly our obligation to make people aware and understand how to fight against it, every small step we take will slowly build towards a more just place especially when we have big communities.

[–] isekaihero@ani.social 4 points 15 hours ago

Of course they don't. Our country was founded by religious extremists. Puritans, Quakers, Calvinists, Mormons. One of the quotes of Jesus is "For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away."

It also says in the OT that God appoints our leaders, and rebellion against our leaders is rebellion against God.

The vast majority of Christians in the USA are fundamentally opposed to anything that would financially better the lower and middle class. That's socialism, and it's evil. But the rich becoming this rich? That's holy. If they become even more rich, that just means they are even more holy.

[–] VoteNixon2016@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Seriously, what should I do as an individual to singlehandedly change this?

Not in a fedposting get-you-to-incriminate-yourself way, I'm genuinely asking what you expect me to do, one person out of nearly 400 million

I'm fucking trying, I'm doing everything I can in my rented apartment and my shitbox from the '90s

Who the fuck is the target audience for this on Lemmy, Europeans glazing each other because they did their imperialism before the internet existed?

[–] bagsy@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago

You can not single handeely change this. They only way is to work together. If you havent already, find a group (ideally in person), and meet regularly. Find a project you can all work on together. Everyone needs to chip away at the hydra.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 points 16 hours ago

Join a revolutionary socialist organization like PSL that's active near you.

[–] isekaihero@ani.social 1 points 15 hours ago

I don't think McVeigh was a terrorist. I think he was a patriot.

I'm not condoning violence. But I want to point out that Millennials first rebelled against the fed during Occupy Wall Street, and it accomplished nothing because it was peaceful. 15 years later, no amount of peaceful attempts to change things for the better has worked.

Every time there is an attempt to form organized resistance, alphabet agencies infiltrate the movement and their favorite thing to do is have one of their undercover agents begin violent protest and that lets their goons swoop in to conduct mass arrests of all the people affiliated with the movement that weren't acting out violently. Just being associated with the violent guy (who is an undercover cop) is enough to get them arrested. I think that's exactly what they did on January 8th because a number of violent protestors walked away without charges, but a lot of people who were there and just walked into the capitol building got slapped with multiple charges and are still struggling with legal battles years later.

The intelligence agencies have cracked rule by mass psychology and the above is just one tool they use to maintain control. The American mindset that "socialism is evil and capitalism is good" is another tool they use to stifle rebellion. They no doubt have agents reading this right now and are probably adding my user account to a list.

So where do we go? JFK said if you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable. But at this point I think the CIA, NSA, and FBI have basically proven him wrong. I don't see how a revolution of any kind is able to get up and running in modern day USA.

If you're interested in learning more about how they control dissent, give this documentary a watch. It's long but is really good. https://youtu.be/eJ3RzGoQC4s

[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I killed seven obscenely wealthy people last week and ate their flesh to redistribute their wealth. Pretty sure that's how it works. Even if it isn't, it can't hurt for us to all give it our best shot.

[–] VoteNixon2016@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Okay you can't just say that online and not share recipes

[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Nothing to share, sadly. Obscenely wealthy humans are so rotten inside nothing can make them taste good. With the possible exception of MacKenzie Scott. I can't be sure, but I'd be willing to test. For science.

... like, without the murder. On that one. Just sex stuff. No combining sex stuff with murder and nightmares, or we will become like them.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

This week, each one of you has a homework assignment. You're gonna go out, you're gonna talk to a coworker about pay. You're gonna tell a coworker how much you get paid even if that's cringe.

Unfortunately, even thinking the word "solidarity" is grounds for termination here

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 day ago (5 children)

This is a worldwide problem, not just a US one.

The world needs to collectively make these people's vast accumulation of wealth and thus power illegal. Old and new money regardless of where it came from.

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[–] wakko@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

And yet, people still think the top tier earners deserve to live in houses with unbroken windows and unburnt lawns...

[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

The only nation to never revolt says it's impossible to revolt.

[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Americans? It's fucking planet Earth (share your country and I'll demonstrate)

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

It's not about spine, it's about the system. There is currently no mechanism to change this, even if we wanted to, which we generally do. We have to change the system first, so that a change in how we handle Sociopathic Oligarchs is possible.

And frankly, we're working hard on that. We've got a Midterm Election coming up that Dems have been working very hard to exploit as much as possible (for a change), and more than that, the people who are running and winning primaries are the kind that are going to insist on substantial changes when they get in office, starting with leadership. If the Dems take the Senate, Schmuck is out as leader, and then out of his office in 2028.

When we change the profile of the party, take control of Congress, then change the leadership, we are on the path to make bigger changes that can have a real impact.

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[–] diocesegoldmine@sh.itjust.works 65 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (9 children)

It's easy to call us cowards, in reality we live in a surveillance state that makes trillions of dollars by killing and torturing it's own citizens. In a place like this lacking morals becomes a question of survival. Definitely not excusing it, but it's the truth.

[–] volore@scribe.disroot.org 31 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

that, and none of the people who so flippantly dismiss us all as cowards have ever seriously considered the realities of spending considerable time in the American penal system, our favorite way of breaking people who color outside the lines. They're usually people from countries where prison is a place of rehabilitation and not punishment.

Everyone wants to see another Luigi, nobody wants to go through the kind of grief he is going or will go through.

[–] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 13 points 1 day ago (14 children)

No, just last week 250 comrades were arrested from a sister group of ours in Turkey.

Turkish prisons are not very pleasant. But when you have something to strive for, you do what is right and not what is easy.

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[–] Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago

I guess it was easier in Nazi Germany to keep your head down and go with the flow, too.

Don't worry, people don't forget!

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well, they've also been brainwashed into extreme individualism, "if you fail at life it's your fault" kind of thinking. The fact that losing your job means homelessness, no healthcare, and with extremely powerful corporations handling pretty much everything you do or own makes it incredibly hard to organise.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Revolutionaries have succeeded in worse conditions, like Russia, China, Cuba, etc. The reality is that a good portion of the US Empire's working classes are bribed by the spoils of imperialism, and that there is a huge settler population that benefit from settler-colonialism. Organizing in the US needs to primarily be from a decolonial and anti-imperialist standpoint, which is largely why the Black Panther Party was so successful in garnering support, along with the mutual aid and community defense they performed.

A lot of the Black Panther Party was inspired by global south movements, including juche socialism from the DPRK, and Mao's policy in China. They focused on independence, sovereignty, and self-reliance, which is why their community defense and free lunch programs were so critical to their strategy. They believed that they needed to correctly show the working classes how to properly be a disciplined, working class party, bringing them up to their level theoretically and practically.

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I've always said this, the Americans who ended the gilded age and elected the Roosevelts will be rolling in their graves after seeing how spineless their descendants have been.

[–] grandma@sh.itjust.works 43 points 1 day ago (4 children)
[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 day ago

Capital consolidates in crisis. Each crisis, which is fairly regular in capitalism, results in the bigger capitalists buying or squeezing out the smaller capitalists that cannot weather the crisis, resulting in greater centralization and consolidation of capital, and greater absolute disparity.

[–] Karjalan@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

Kind of weird that it somehow made the rich richer...

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 13 points 1 day ago

Never let a good crisis go to waste they say

[–] BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Man, seeing this graph that was a literal inflection point where their wealth exploded compared to a literal decade before.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

If you zoom out, these jumps and explosions happen following nearly every crisis. It's intrinsic to capitalism.

[–] mineralfellow@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Reading the graph, it looks like the bottom 50% have about $4T. A quick glance at the wealthiest 5 individuals shows that they have about $2T.

Not good.

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago

Ah yes, the old raped, dead husk of the stock market still working for the rich.

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