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Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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Bernie has *been* consistently right, for decades
The man has spent his life fighting for people who openly hate him. He’s too good for this government
Absolutely. Give more direction and guidance. We’ve deleted our Facebook and Meta accounts. We’ve cancelled our Amazon Prime. Getting rid of all Google products/ services and the Alexa devices we have. Cancelled all streaming services. Reddit is the last thing I have.
What more can we do?
Yeah, the US has always been run by a ruling class of extremely wealthy people. Since the very beginning. The government of the US was designed so the wealthy could rule while still appearing democratic. At any point in history where people started to get too much control the power was quickly snapped back by the rich. I would say the only difference now is the rich don’t seem to care how much the average person suffers in the US anymore. They used to sort of enjoy occasionally making things better for the average Joe. Now, they don’t give a rat’s ass.
The question is, how? I can delete my social media accounts, I went to the protests and will go to more. But when police have a monopoly on state sanctioned violence and it is now illegal to camp out in public spaces, and the rich can buy politicians, how do we enact change?
You know what makes me sad, is that as much as I hate the Jan 6ers, they got closer to the “French revolution” type actions we liberals love to talk about. I would never sanction violence, but it feels more and more like that kind of radical action on a large scale is the only thing that would actually make change happen. The democrats had a chance to vote in guardrails and because a few assholes (Manchin and Sinema) were bought out, we couldn’t quite get there. Nancy Pelosi and other geriatrics in the Dem party keep insisting on keeping milquetoste demented old fools in power rather than ceding to progressive youth like AOC. Because no one is willing to do anything radical, we have supreme court justices that laugh in the face of the people and the constitution, and legislators and a president who only care about getting richer and aren’t even trying to hide it. WHAT THE FUCK DO WE DO
Imagine if we’d had a Bernie presidency. *sigh*
The only answer is a Mario party. Average ass people eventually going to need to do something if we want change. I’m not inciting violence or anything. Just saying it’s probably too far gone to self correct without it.
I would love for Democrats to fight back, they seem to be struggling to even get noticed right now, or not even trying except a few like AOC and Bernie.
He’s only partially correct.
Billionaires have been in control of our government since at LEAST Citizen’s United. It could be argued as far back as the Reagan Administration.
At this point the only new thing is that they are no longer bothering to hide behind the thin veneer of democracy. It’s the Age of Mask Off. We merely have an outward, blatant oligarchy as opposed to a shadow oligarchy.
Edit: and when I say “in control of our government” I mean entirely. They’ve always had outsized influence. It’s just no longer even the facade of democratic governance.
Remember when John Kerry was too hoity-toity for the conservative crowd?
Brave man, we love you Bernie
I mean but how do we fight back?
Now?! Always seemed that way down here at the bottom 🙋🏻♂️
If the Dems are looking to have any hope in 26, and victory in 28 – they need to change the national mindset from a culture war to a class war.
That has become a real cliche lately. Dems need to understand what it truly means, and make compromises on their platform to achieve the greater good. They need to frame their position in terms of economics and not social causes. They need to target low to middle income folks, the entirety of the “working class”, and the lower to mid end of the middle class.
They unfortunately can’t push on divisive social issues like trans freedoms if they want to win. Dems need the GOP underclass vote. It has to be pure economic. Gotta keep Jesus on the sidelines, if they want to win livable wages and working conditions, plus affordable healthcare and housing.
Something has go to go from the current message, which is hugely unfortunate, but again – greater good
Pretty sure billionaire (corporations prior to the rise of individual billionaires) have been buying congress for decades.
It would be nice if everyone understood that. Sadly, that’s just not the case.
I mean all three of them were sitting right there. Did anybody try fighting them?
Watchign that inaguration left such a bad taste in my mough. So many rich fucks all there in their private club. Felt like I was watching a royal ceremony filled with nobles. Them all being together in such. a small space made teh calss divide extremely clear.
The only thing left to do is to eliminate the billionaire class. Forcefully or economically the choice is left to them.
Y instead of clapping
He usually is
How?
The U.S. has officially entered its cyberpunk era.
Now? Try for longer than the last few generations have been alive.
HOW????
How?
Bernie, the average person has no legal way to fight back. The system has been neutered thanks to decades of gerrymandering and propaganda.
Okay, so how?
Isn’t that why we elect you? To fight back? Y u do nothing?
We need executive, visionary leadership more than anything at this very minute. I can get behind a Bernie Ocasio-Cortez movement, with intent on a ticket.
Luigi
The GOP wanted this to happen.
The DNC wanted this to happen.
Our politicians are bought and paid for…and not by “the people” en masse.
They do not and ***have not*** represented us. The system works for the wealthy and ***only*** the wealthy.
Now? Brother, you know they have been in control for decades.
Here’s the problem, it’s always been like this. Oil, lumber, railroads, ect. “He who has the gold, makes the rules”
I’m sorry, Bernie, I don’t think everyone does understand that at all.
“We must fight back”
This doesn’t actually ***MEAN*** anything.
Are you talking about an armed rebellion? “Slacktivism”? Just getting out to vote? Are you calling for assassinations or just tweeting memes?
If you say something like this without giving some specific examples of what should be done, then you aren’t correct.
Fighting back means posting most threads on social media I guess.
Genuinely curious: how, exactly are we supposed to fight back? By posting on social media?
Everyone keeps talking about fighting and resisting, all I see are social media posts