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[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Nobody is gunning down Americans, the outcome of that is the right and left uniting to topple the US government or at least to remove every representative from power, everyone knows this. US's "fierce individualism" means there is always a precarious risk of going too far. This is why the powers that be have worked so fucking hard to divide us and make us afraid of each other and the "other side."

That said, the marches are useless without political action to capitalize on the momentum.

Mussolini was not captured and executed by a plucky band of rebels who fought the Italian government. He was handed over to opposition forces BY the government when they realized that they could no longer sustain the current system. The king personally arrested him.

Nations are huge. They don't turn on a dime, and you need politics to change things. A lot of leftists have a very dumb notion of how this needs to happen, and think that we can "do our own Jan 6th" and it will somehow work. It didn't work then, it won't work now.

We march, we mobilize, we organize, but we start at home, in your community, in your town or city, and we spread it through the state. We share information and vote in actual representatives for seats that largely go uncontested because people only care about democracy every four years when the circus comes to town. Vote out the current DNC stooges, vote out the sitting nobodies who want to preserve the status-quo, vote out the people who can't say anything bad about the companies paying them. If we do that, AND march and protest, we take the country back. Right now though it's plenty hard enough to get someone to finish reading a comment this long, much less go research who's up for reelection in their school board or what's the ruling history of their local judges.

[–] Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 minutes ago

Are you aware of Kent State or the Detroit riots? They have shot and killed protestors before and no one banded together then and no one will band together now.

Also refer to how they have DEA and friends use their facial recognition on protestors all the time and then show up at your house with bogus charges.

Its easy to say do something from an armchair and I feel you, I wish we could do something