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[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Lack of organization. We're many of us individually mad, but there is no organization.

Say what you will but Jan 6th and then some is what we should be doing, but we aren't.

All I'm doing now is hoarding ammunition and periodically buying more guns because I 1000% believe we're going to see war soon.

I'm also donating money to charities, helping people in my community that are struggling, and telling fascists to fuck off.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (4 children)

What makes you think we aren’t mad?

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The sitting around, waiting for “someone” to stop the madness, instead of organizing …fucking 10 years ago.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think we're just on a down wave globally. In early 00s we got social media which helped to organize people and lead to real actionable ideas. The bad actors figured it out and took control of our tools and now people are waiting for a new opportunity.

I think Americans need a strong leader and something to break the camel's back. Everyone's who's angry now doesn't have a good "deal" for risking exposure and their complacency because the failures are just too recent.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

"Wanting a strong leader" is what gave us trump. You be a leader or allow yourself to be led by people in your local community. There is no perfect leader that could ever check everyone's boxes. If there was one thing we could all agree on I'd like to know what it fucking is.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 days ago (1 children)

A lot of people are mad. A lot of people are tired. A lot of people have lost hope. A lot of people feel betrayed. A lot of people see no path for change. A lot of people want to just be left alone.

To me that’s what this is really about. I’m so tired of having to be so actively(or passively) involved with politics and have the “party” I support constantly drop the ball. It’s so incredibly exhausting putting this much mental wherewithal into people and ideas that are just tossed aside.

I feel like everything is turning to shit so fast and “this is what people wanted” cause they supposedly voted for him; but I feel like the time to really rally and strike isn’t here yet.

It still feels like everyone is getting their bearings and figuring it out. You can see people are starting to plan. It’s clear we can’t just REACT. There needs to be clear plans and action to stop this and prevent it from happening again.

I think a lot of people are very angry, but we need to focus and formulate a proper way to retaliate.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 days ago (8 children)

I challenge your premise: They are mad. Not all of them, but plenty of people are upset and angry. More to follow the way things are going: The worse things get, the angrier they'll get.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Everyone I talk to is mad, my family is a bunch of Tumpers and beloeve everything he says.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

i think they are. they just been propagandized so hard with anticommunism that they are at a loss of what to do. thats not even just the us.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago (7 children)

I’m mad. I’m very mad. I’m also very tired of watching political movements get shut down by the people who respond with “yes, we need to do better” followed by a handful of performative actions, and absolutely no substantive change.

I believe in a general strike. Wholeheartedly. I believe it would make real change. How the hell do I organize one safely? How do I trust any of the other people online who claim to be organizing them?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Culture war.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Real talk?

Because I'm tired. So absurdly tired. Tired of the stupid and the sensationalism and the faked anger and the real suffering and pain.

Am I mad? Yeah. But unfortunately I'm way more tired.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I’m infuriated! It’s like the US has lost their collective minds. But what’s the point in doing anything? This is what the voting populace of the US wants.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Your core supposition is wrong, basically everyone is mad about the state of our country. We just have several different ideas on how to fix it and two parties who are dedicated to making it worse.

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