• Carrolade@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Torches and pitchforks became obsolete about a century ago anyway, the offshore bank account and private jet are too effective as counters. Now its boycotting and voting.

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      2 months ago

      Yeah, good luck voting your way out of a system that’s controlled by exactly the people you’re trying to get rid of…

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        2 months ago

        Better luck than thinking you’ll have one of the few successful mass uprisings over one of the thousands that just gets crushed and gets like 2 sentences in a history book. Slow reform actually has a modest success rate, as we ourselves demonstrated under people like Teddy and FDR. Just not as sexy.

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      2 months ago

      Ummmm, rioting always has been and still is on the menu.

      Boycotting and voting hasn’t worked that well in 4 decades, time to drag the owner class into the streets and remind them what happened to Rome and France.

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        2 months ago

        Now that deserves a good luck.

        Side note, this is not the first time rich people have taken over the country, incidentally. We’ve had to fix this before.