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[–] [email protected] 110 points 4 months ago (5 children)

If justice isn't legally accessible it will be acquired by other means.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The working class has been crushed by neoliberalism for 50+ years and there's still no justice in site. The oligarchs that control "democracy" know there's a high chance they'll remain insulated from all the suffering they cause. They are so confident in this their goal now is to remove the illusion of democracy.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

All they had to do was construct a society where the working class is exposed exclusively to neoliberal propaganda from birth until death. Several generations onwards, and here we are. Class consciousness is essentially none amongst large swaths of the working class population.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 months ago

Nice phrase but that doesn't seem to be how things have worked for a while now

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

We're not French, unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Liberté, égalité, fraternité

We can have them too!

[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

For that, we need mass organization, which is extremely difficult both logisticly (due to the size of the US and how spread out the polulation is) and politicly (decades of neoliberal and red scare propoganda).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Do you understand that with a response like this the only thing you are accomplishing is making someone with the right idea and passion... less passionate about the thing?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So give me a solution. How can America organize en masse?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If only we had some way to communicate easily over long distances, maybe a network that allows for computers to interact like some kind of "Internet".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yes what a shame, that kind of technology would be perfect so long as it wasn’t full of condescending cynical people who constantly shutdown any positive momentum for change that required vision.

Maybe we could have a network of quadcopter drones that delivered notes between people?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Too expensive, can we go back to carrier pigeons?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Do you really think I am going to be the guy to say ”No” to bringing back carrier pigeons? Come on, be reasonable, I can’t say no to texting people via literal pidgeons.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Carrier pigeons it is. The first one should be arriving in a week.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Can you send me some spare carrier pigeons? I’m fresh out.

Wait.. so do you tape like spare carrier pigeons to another carrier pigeon and send that pigeon or do you just send carrier pigeons on a one way trip with nothing to carry? I don’t know how this technology works.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Lol no it won't.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

we need batman or the punisher lol

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Super heroes will not save us from this shit. Not ever. (Even if they weren't fictional.)

Super heroes exist to defend the (neoliberal) status quo.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Or a general strike organized by labor and student unions

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

So a rich guy who can put on a mask and beat up the poor while advancing the arms race with criminals becoming more unhinged or a guy whose family was murdered and starts turning to vigilante justice and became what every cop wet dreams that they actually are?

....Sure. That'll help. /s