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Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 2 days agoIf enough people join in at the same time, the threat of repercussions/punishment drops to zero, or very close to zero. The difficult part is organizing enough people.
If you organize that many people you can get what you want without resorting to a form of violence that will really only create a power vacuum, not a better future.
Violence is just cheap and easy, as long as you don’t have to think about the consequences of your actions.
Okay. Name an authoritarian ruler who was deposed with absolutely no violence.
A whole bunch of them in Eastern Europe, the only exception being Ceausescu.
Problem is you’ve left organizing and resisting so long you’ve already so far behind that the only catch up now is violence. Also the vast majority of people who have had to resort to violence as a last resort think about the consequences of their actions daily. It is well documented. Sociopaths however like heir druphkin and his ilk never seem to have those problems.
The problem is it’s not the last resort, far from it. We still have some semblance of democracy, no matter how often people are screaming that it’s all lost already (like yourself). We still have options, just because so many people choose not to consider them doesn’t mean they don’t exist, it just means it takes more effort than lighting a bottle of alcohol with a rag in it on fire and tossing it at the people you blame for all your inconveniences.
Yes, we have a problem at the federal level, and yes it’s going to be hard to fix it. But it’s not the only thing that matters, and treating it like it is is how we’ve lost so much ground already. People gave up long ago because everyone keeps telling them their thoughts don’t matter, that everything is already broken and there’s no way to fix it. Not because it’s true, because it’s the easiest way to get people to stop resisting effectively.
You want people to do something meaningful? Stop backing them into a corner by telling them they have no options left. Cause as we’ve seen already it just means they give up.
As someone looking from the outside in please tell me about this democracy you have left. Truely. I’d like to know because I don’t see it anywhere.
index@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Governments work hard in preventing people from organizing. Mass media and centralized socials are directly sponsored by the government.