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They keep raising prices, stating that it's due to inflation, but then they keep having record profits.

Meanwhile, the average American can barely afford rent or food nowadays.

What are we to do? Vote? I have been but that doesn't seem to do much since I'm just voting for a representative that makes the actual decisions.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 10 months ago (2 children)

France has the right idea about what we were supposed to do.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Protest about every single issue then vote for the most milquetoast president possible, with a side helping of fascist Russian-puppet as a runner up?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Or get out the guillotines which soon get turned on your allies (and innocent poor people), then after that collapses get taken over by a fascist dictator, who undoes most of the progressive changes you made and rampages across Europe, killing millions of people (including French people).

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

In fairness a fascist or at least authoritarian dictator rampages across Europe every few hundred years, give or take a century, anyways

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why stop at Europe, no one is immune, they just have the most famous framework.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Because they did it so much it spilled over onto several other continents and replicated?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

you think this is new or unique to Europe? downside of Eurocentric history education i guess.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Innocent people die in revolution or war, but generally, in cases like the French revolution, or us civil was, that overthrow a corrupt system for a (slightly) fairer one, society is better off over all. I don't think we need violent revolution but we do need revolution.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

You're right, why fight when we get a fascist Russian puppet for free and a president who literally uses Nazi rhetoric to boost his ratings.

At least if we protest, we can either get off this fucking ride or break the machine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

old family tradition