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How many hexbears think there will actually be a popular revolution in the West in our time? (hexbear.net)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
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Genuinely curious. I keep thinking “it can’t get much worse without some kind of mass uprising” but the ability of the general population of Western states to just soak up suffering seems endless. Do you think we will actually see mass movements in the next decade or two? Or just slowly lurch into a void of ever-shittier liberalism?

By the West I mean like. Western Europe and the Anglosphere I guess.

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[–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Like that’s not clearly going to happen. Also, most people just follow what’s popular. If we can organize well momentum will build on itself as normies realize we can work for their interests.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The protests are a pretty good counterpoint.

    Protests have been on the right side of history and built momentum from civil rights to suffrage to anti war protests to climate protests to today.

    And even on the supposedly left of american center reddit every single one of them is using the exact same talking points that was used against every single other one of those protests.

    Columbia is a liberal college in one of the most liberal states with a liberal governor in a liberal city. It looked like the cops were ready to invade a small nation.

    And the overwhelming opinion is against the protestors pretty much everywhere other than here and tik tok.

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