• AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    This is the boiled frog effect.

    If the SCOTUS creates enough national crises, and that’s what they’ve been actively doing, then the crises they continue to create, as dire as they are, just feel like another tuesday.

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      6 months ago

      Moreover, it seems to be happening faster and faster. This is a democratic emergency. We are dangerously close to a critical point where our votes become meaningless and we simply have an authoritarian regime in a trenchcoat.

      Vote because your life depends on it, because if you don’t, you might not get another chance.

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        6 months ago

        I vote for the lesser evil like clockwork so I can sleep at night, but it is water pumps on the Titanic, I don’t do it with hope, it only slows the path we’re on slightly, because both our fascist and neoliberal parties worship the same donors who are the root cause of our decline. Our government are the owner’s well bribed middle managers. That’s what happens when political bribery is legal and corporations have more rights than people. Neither Biden nor Trump nor all but maybe a half dozen people in Congress are less than hyper-capitalists.

        Without revolution, there will be no hope for a better future until collapse. Fortunately for future generations long term, climate change is likely going to force the second one, because we’re too chickenshit.

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          I choose to believe that you are wrong, if only because I can’t function without hope for a better future.

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            6 months ago

            I don’t blame you. My core value has always been truth over comfort, but I fully admit, that value only leads to pain.