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Comment today on Lemmy re: US election by NuXCom (lemm.ee)

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

They burned a police station down. That's not something people do when they're too comfortable.

It was a revolutionary moment, there just wasn't an organized political force or party to take control of the situation and push forward an agenda. It was merely more of the same leaderless horizonalism that characterized the 2010s. That shit doesn't work, but that doesn't mean nothing else was possible. We won't have a revolution just because people are uncomfortable. It requires organizing, which is what we should be doing right now and immediately after Trump steals the election.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

They were uncomfortable because of Covid. That's not likely to happen again soon. They were the most widespread protests this country has had since Vietnam (at least) and they accomplished nothing. The government has those kinds of protests figured out and can crush them or make them irrelevant. Nothing is going to change until people are willing to risk their own lives.