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      2 days ago

      Thanks but you and whoever else “we” is valuing me doesn’t pay my bills or help me reach my goals.

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        That’s… literally the point? We want socialism, which means we want to help pay your bills and support you to reach your goals. That’s what we want for everyone.

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          2 days ago

          Great. How does that help me right now? You have no power to change society. If anything we’re going backwards. We’re not even a meritocracy like the original comic suggests. Comments like that are just empty platitudes.

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            “You have no power to change society.” He said as global uprising of socialist communities continued fighting in union.

            What do you think we have been doing the past 100 years?

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              23 hours ago

              Losing? Trump is ripping everything out at the roots and nobody is doing a fucking thing about it other than post snarky comments on the internet.

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                Right, nobody is doing anything. Absolutely noone. The 7 million people who protested at the no kings protest do not exist. And if you mean me, I’m not even american. And america is not the center of the world. No country is. American being the little fascist country it has always been doesn’t really matter that much.

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                    Right, didn’t achieve anything. Which is why republicans are losing politically left and right at this time. Historically, politicians can not withstand a mobilization of 3.5% of the population. That’s globally, not just the USA. Protest are only going to get larger from this point onward, with the no kings already reaching a cool 2%. New York just elected a socialist mayor, as New York has often set trends for much of the united states of america. I agree, america is in fall, and as such in shock, that’s kinda inevitable at this point. But that doesn’t mean fascism has to come and stay. You know, instead of being a doomer and just saying everything will go to shit and citing your feeling for it, maybe you could start listing some things, so we could have an actual intellectual conversation.

                    Alternatively you can wriggle in your pain and do not help out at all in any revolutionary way whatsoever. I couldn’t give less of a care as I am not american, so go right ahead. I mean I don’t even know what you look or sound like.

                    The democratic backsliding we are experiencing is sad, but it’s by far not been the first time. Graphs go up and down. But just as you don’t make money by analyzing graphs, you should watch our for movements in real life. How strong is the opposition, what basis is there? In ireland they’re starting a gigantic mass movement that is pro-democracy, pro-humanity, anti-billionaire. Here in germany we have a gigantic underground community of highly educated leftist opposition. The actualy majority we see in the AfD is a populist movement, not the people actually wanting to kill jews again.

                    The west might fall, humanity does not. I feel with you when you might say that you hate losing your democratic home.