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Everyone on Lemmy who wants change, wants it from their couch with no effort. You guys complain about poor democratic candidates, but do you ever take part in the primaries, are you a registered voting member of the party? Have you contributed money and time to the campaign of your preferred candidate? Have you gonna door to door for them?
Or did you just sit back watching Netflix till the party put forward their candidate without your input, and at that point you decided to complain? At the finish line? Americans are the least politically involved people in terms of actually putting in the work. But they do love to tell the rest of the world how to live.
That’s the best part. I don’t really do a lot here in Canasa but I a) actually vote for who aligns with my beliefs and b) stay out the fucking way when positive change is mildly uncomfortable for me but someone’s doing the hard work to make it happen. Meanwhile there are people all over the internet who will actively try to dissuade people from doing thing A because it’s scary for them.
The general population barely has to do anything, and for being so conflict avoident they sure like to allow things to get so bad that much worse conflict becomes inevitable.
MLK is rolling in his grave fast enough to generate free power for all of North America.
We should hook his and the founders graves up to some turbines. Germany probably could be getting a lot of free energy from Hitler if they didn’t burn him.
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice.
– Martin Luther King Jr. (1963)
I like this one more.
These are the same people blaming non-voters because they had a conscience.
Democrats were fine with throwing Palestinians under the bus but people who said “no, we don’t want to be a part of it” are the “problem”.
They don’t want peace, they just don’t want to be bothered by the actions of their system they created.
Reprehensible people.
Then vote third party! Not voting just says “I don’t care”.
Agreed. Abstaining from democratic participation doesn’t absolve from democratic responsibility. If both parties on offer are shit, at least make a point of showing that on the ballot rather than just silently accepting whatever comes your way.
What a way with words.
It’s also tragic what they did to Helen Keller.
The woman was a brilliant, opinionated socialist who fought capitalism publicly and vehemently - bravely and without any deference to those she didn’t respect…
…and history remembers her for learning to say the word “water”, completely making her seem like a simpleton who barely learned to function. It’s insulting and horrible.
This is the reason why he was assassinated folks. Same reason why Malcom X was assassinated too.
And Fred Hampton
“Martin, I’da shot ya myself but white folk got better aim.” -Uncle Ruckus
I love the sentiment, but I always shy away from this particular quote, simply because it is unsubstantiated:
I do love the apt ‘rich beyond conscience’, whoever wrote the quote
You should actually read that article beyond the “unsubstantiated” tag.
It’s very likely he did say either exactly those words or something very close to them. It’s just that no one recorded or transcribed him saying those because it was a private conversation between him and another individual who only wrote down the encounter 40 years after it happened.
Then the Billionaire LeBron James decided to sell a pair of sneakers with MLK Jr’s name on it 🤦♂️
https://www.si.com/fannation/sneakers/news/nike-lebron-james-criticized-over-mlk-shoes
I think would be proud to see how far a man like LeBron has gotten in America, at the same time i think he’d be disappointed to see him become a disconnected billionaire with no clue about his roots or desire to spread the wealth to his community.
