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me_irl (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Sorry, I've been trolled a lot lately. First instinct, and thought you were one too. There is a serious effort on lemmy for Americans to start a revolution. It's not new, it's been going on since reddit days, but they've been going 100% since the start of trump's second term.

  • doom loop (make everything seem like we'll never see the end of it, etc.
  • how about a revolution?
  • you won't do it, you're too weak pussies.
  • bury the person calling it out.

I'm getting kind of sick of it. I understand why they try it, it worked on the Jan 6 idiots.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (3 children)

    To be fair, there are some of us Americans who legitimately are starting to feel like revolution may be the only way to root out the corruption in our government. That said I'd still personally exhaust every alternative option first

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    Did you think of it naturally or did it come to you after you've been online? I fall for propaganda occasionally still, and I've been trolled pretty hard for years. I know what to look for.

    A revolution against our current military machine would be suicide for you and maybe your family. Don't even let that enter your mind.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I can't by any means say I'm immune to propaganda, but I've been thinking along these lines since 2016 (when I wasn't even on social media or reading the news), so it'd have to have been some pretty pervasive, in-person propaganda.

    I don't think a full-scale revolution against our current government could even possibly succeed by sheer military strength; not unless the bulk of the military defected to the revolutionaries' side. But, I do think an Ireland-style revolution (guerilla warfare targeting strategic government officials) would be plausible, albeit far from good. It would cause substantial upheaval and likely wouldn't overthrow the government, but it may force their hand a bit if it happened.

    Again, I wouldn't personally condone or participate in something like that unless I had nothing to lose, because of course it would be a suicide mission, but I do worry that more and more Americans are left with nothing to lose by the day. I'm not saying a revolution should happen, or that it would somehow be a good thing, but the tensions do make it feel like it might happen, especially if the economy crashes.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    All of what you're saying is true, but ultimately it has been proven that revolutions don't work 99% of the time, even if conditions are good for one. LGBTQ and Civil Rights knew what they were doing. Unfortunately, it's a long slow process. America has had really shitty leaders like trump before, so we'll have to see if the hamburgers win or not, and go for the long slow win.

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