Because they have the resources to do so. They aren't traveling for free, and it's not quick. It would be a two day trip for me to get to DC. The nearest place worth staging a protest is 6 hours away by car.
This isn't hard to grasp.
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There is a way. There has been a way. The elite have spent over a century fighting it. I have no idea how to convince people to do it.
We don't even need to become truly communist. In fact our current system could work with a few tweaks.
One way is the general strike. I don't know how many unions are participating. We have 3 years.
Another effective way is stopping transportation. You all remember how much the elite freaked out when just the rail unions went on strike.
Stop the trains. Stop the planes. Stop the semis, stop the barges on the Mississippi, and the Great lakes. Shut down the ports.
The elite enjoy power because they control the money. We don't need to use violence or our voices against them, because they can organize quicker and shout louder.
Economic warfare.
Honestly, 2018 seems like 20 years ago, I had completely forgotten about that.
And the leaders of the civil rights organization had amazing public speaking skills, were professors or church leaders, or otherwise people who had a voice.
AoC and Bernie are the two doing anything right now, and you better believe when they come here I'm going. But to say get off my ass and do something?
Good fucking luck having just anyone do that.
Man I have to pick up parts I ordered Friday. Maybe I'll get lucky and they arrive early
It's clear that he's just a pawn of Musk's at this point. And Musk read Project 2025 and his Nazi brain went "fuck yeah let's do that, get that really dumb guy in office again so we can really do shit"
This is the part I'm talking about. The last guy marginally successful at that got assassinated by the FBI 60 years ago.
And our lives are purposely overloaded with crap, and we're so dispersed as to fail to collectivise. Individualism and materialistic values are so hammered into us so that any attempt to collectivise are self-thwarted by ourselves.
The few of us who realize what's going on can't do much other than say something. Hope we can connect people to say "yeah, let's see what's up." And it's gonna take a fuckton of effort, and it's not going to happen a month after shit really starts going to hell.
Thank you for spelling out the anxieties we all experience because of intense suppression by the elite. I don't think any country on this planet can look at us see "our wealth" and not realize that 99% of us don't have any.
Well the distance from one side of Paris to the other is 11.5km.
The distance from the furthest point in France to paris is like 723km.
Washington DC is 22km at it's widest point.
The furthest point in the U.S. to Washington DC is 7,800 I'm.
In the lower 48 only, if you could walk in a straight line, it would be nearly 4000km. Driving it's an even longer distance cause it ain't straight.
I don't know what the fuck you Europeans think the size and population density of the US is.
AuADHD?
That explains why my son says that all the time.
J. Edgar Hoover was asshole in power over the BOI and FBI for 42 years. Died while in office. I suppose that can be on the table to! Over/under on 42 years!
Or better - does he serve his full term? Does he die in office?
It's taken me about 6 years to understand how it works and what it does, but I'm finally starting to get it.
I hate software. Why am I in this job still
The civil rights movement started 8 years prior, and it was almost entirely focused locally in Alabama & Tennessee. Using today's technology to spread the word, great, you have people doing the same thing with the 50501. We're still limited by travel times.
Planning for the March on Washington started in 1961, and was largely supported by unions. Guess what has been absolutely decimated since then? A whole bunch of people talking online is great, but you still need proximity to organize shit like transporting a bunch of people to one location from another. They organized 250k people. 50501 can probably organize far more, but it will take longer even with instant communication.