• Lord Wiggle@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Or (and bear with me, I’m high as fuck on ketamine, so this might be all complete bonkers) the US could go into a revolution, decentralizing states, remove the rich and the controlling corps, set up support so anyone has access to food, drinking water, a roof, heathcare, education so people actually have a chance in life instead of being doomed from birth because being born poor.

    Or you could fund the police, protect the rich, exploit the poor, fuck the world. Which is basically what the US has been doing so far. Maybe doing that with more states will break a record or something? Go for it! You go girl!

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      3 months ago

      Revolutions tend to maintain the status quo just changing the rulers to those who can keep the friendly facade a little bit better

      Those problems must be solved but revolution will probably hardly gonna help

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        3 months ago

        Well if that’s true, there’s no reason to keep the second amendment. But right now it feels a lot like America screams “no! We want the most of us to starve! We want school shootings, it’s a part of our culture! We don’t want to give up slavery, we are responsible slave owners! I want to decide what women are allowed to do with their body, I know better then them!” (yes, the US still has slaves. They ended slavery, with the exception of incarceration. There are prisons where people are forced to work without pay).