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    What the actual fuck. This is straight from Anne Frank’s diary, just change their coats.

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    This is what your grandparents fought and died for to prevent from ever happening again.

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      Too bad our government was just like, we’ll pardon your war crimes and forget you’re a Nazi if you’re good at science and can help us do science things better than other countries!

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        Pretty much everyone has done this historically, fuck even Rome did it. Smart people are often times worth their weight in gold especially if they made life annoying for you and your army, so they basically fall into the category of war loot.

        Also it’s usually a either you join us or we kill you situation.

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      It was pretty much still happening in the South while those grandparents were busy fighting it elsewhere. And it continued to happen in the US south for decades after WWII.

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    Actually heard from a colleague there that he was actively doing just that, at least a few weeks ago. Complete with the cloak and dagger about coordinating it offline and avoiding active patrols and protests that would similarly draw too much attention.

    Yes, awfully 1930s German scenario that happened there.

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    Still waiting for US citizens to organize a nationwide strike that doesn’t end until ICE terror ends. What’s it gonna take?

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        So fight off the ones that would kick people out and replace the ones that would turn the lights off.

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            That is the argument everytime they try to tell people not to vote. Which is not only contradictory it’s just delusional.

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            Yes, exactly, now you get it.

            It’s either that or waiting for the fascists to murder you. So get to it.

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                I’m not American so I can’t help directly.

                Still, while I obviously can’t write here what I’m doing, I’m confident it qualifies as “me going first”. If we were with more people, we could do more than make the news a couple times per year.

                So… you next?

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      The problem is that most of us that would protest are not in a financial position to do so. If I participate in a work strike, I won’t make the money I need to pay my bills, I’ll be evicted, I’ll go hungry, I won’t be able to feed the family or the pets I will go destitute long before actual change happens. I’m not just making sacrifices, I am making that decision for my whole family. And that’s just the surface level changes. I cannot afford to leave where I am currently. I believe that is all by design and I am not even close to the minority situation.

      • TerdFerguson@lemmy.world
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        Yeah, its not a viable option for everyone. Clandestine methods are an option.

        In France, they light things on fire.

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        I guess US citizens are then in a financial situation similar to what US foreign policy has encouraged in several regions of the world.

        Anyone can downvote all they want, but US interventionism has had terrible consequences that most US citizens are not even aware of, yet people push back, they resist, despite much greater poverty than most people in the US have to suffer.

        I’m confident that US citizens can eventually do something concrete against their most recent criminal regime, of which there have been many. We haven’t even yet seen the level of pushback that was mounted during the war on Vietnam, and armed thugs are out there killing your citizens and kidnapping people off the streets.

        I just hope that pushback comes sooner than later because history shows us that people outside the US tend to suffer much more due to US policy than people inside the US.

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    You could search and replace a few words in Anne Frank’s Diary and make it happen in Minneapolis today.

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          Yeah, we did, and the people who purposefully threw the election rather than compromise one bit with what the people wanted are responsible.

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              Because if you want anything to change, the pressure has got to be applied in the right direction. If people just keep blaming their neighbours, of course no politician will ever feel like they have to do anything to improve things.

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                If you want anything to change, you need to take effective actions. The consequence politicians face by taking ineffective actions is maybe not winning their race. The consequence our neighbors face by taking ineffective actions is the erosion of their civil rights.

                If you actually want to pressure politicians, you do it by contacting them directly to inform them of their failings, they’re not just going to magically know why you didn’t vote or vote third party.

                Protest voting doesn’t apply the pressure you think it does.

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                  If you actually want to pressure politicians, you do it by contacting them directly to inform them of their failings

                  Sure, that’s a thing you should do

                  they’re not just going to magically know why you didn’t vote or vote third party

                  They actually expend substantial effort and sums of money to find this out, there’s nothing magical about it.

                  Protest voting doesn’t apply the pressure you think it does.

                  On the other hand, voting for them anyway if they do something absolutely abhorrent and beyond any kind of humanity tells them they can get away with anything and is just a race to the bottom.

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      The right: these extremists decide elections so we’ll make it our whole platform again

      The left: these extremists decide elections so we’ll blame them again

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    But I’ve been told Democrats are SO HORRIBLE that we have to allow felon pedophile fascists to run our country instead.

    I mean Dems fumbled a single foreign affair topic, so it makes sense that we should just let masked unaccountable federal agents violate our Constitutional rights and murder American citizens.

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      Don’t you think people deserve to vote for someone they actually support, rather than the least terrible option though?

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        Sure. That’s not mutually incompatible with preferring the least terrible option to the most terrible though.

        People view it as “Democrats don’t deserve to win because they didn’t have a good enough candidate”, when they should be viewing it as “Democrats didn’t field the candidate I deserve, but I still deserve better than the Republican”.