• Cowbee@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    No, the state will get worse regardless. I want people to strike, unionize, organize, and pressure the state as best they can, and I do believe revolution is the best way to get there, but I don’t think the path there is to intentionally vote for bad policy so everyone suffers even more, lol.

    Like I said, I will almost certainly be voting for Biden, but the idea that Biden is “slow, positive change” cannot be the prevailing thought process if we want actual change to occur. Biden is slow, negative change while Trump is fast negative change.

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      2 months ago

      So the path forward is killing people? Because that’s what revolution entails. Once the killings start they tend to be indiscriminate and less about idealism than consolidating power. There’s a long history of revolution, and I can’t think of a single one that didn’t go off the rails and devolve into insanity. What makes this revolution you’re dreaming about different?

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        2 months ago

        Revolution is the only way to meaningfully change whichever class is in power. It does not need to be violent, it can take on any number of forms.

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          28 days ago

          Can you give an example of when a revolution wasn’t violent? Just one. Ever. In the history of humanity?