• @RegularGoose
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    311 months ago

    Because that’s not the government works. The populace doesn’t choose who the candidates are, introduce legislation, or (with relatively rare exceptions) vote on it directly.

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      11 months ago

      Okay, but why do you not take a more radical approach? I mean, Trump followers were not right, but even they took the capitol by assault to accomplish essentially nothing. Most of these things exposed in this thread seem to me like legitimate causes to emulate some Malcolm X-esque actions.

      • @RegularGoose
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        211 months ago

        I do support that, at least morally. In practice, a bunch of disorganized, untrained, and poorly equipped people who are already struggling to get by day to day are not going to win a fight against human history’s most powerful police and military force on its own home territory.

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          111 months ago

          So is it fair to say that most of the American people, dissatisfied with their political system, are afraid to actually change it?

          Don’t take me wrong, I absolutely understand this, and appreciate you taking the time to answer to my questions.

          • @RegularGoose
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            211 months ago

            Some are afraid, others don’t know how, others feel like there’s no use in trying. A whole lot buy into the American exceptionalism propaganda that gets shoved down our throats from birth and think there’s nothing wrong with this country and that the people who are suffering deserve it, and that the people who want to make it better are literally trying to destroy it for Satan, or for the Jews, or for the reptilians.