• The Snark Urge@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Putting words in my mouth won’t change the mess we’ve got on our hands. We want those things and we can get them, but not immediately (absent a millions-strong general strike) and not without a fight (another Blair mountain, probably worse).

    I’m not trying to deter you. I’m talking about what’s in our way.

    • Verdant Banana@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      that is what my grandfather says

      his grandfather is the one who repeated that line to him

      not repeating that line to my children

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        5 months ago

        And the dipshits on the right listened for the last fifty years and got Roe overturned.

        Giving up because you aren’t getting exactly what you want right now is how you lose everything.

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          5 months ago

          Sounds more like they’re giving up on these two shitty privately run parties not giving up on their country or democracy. The failures leading the Democratic party are the reason why Trump got elected in the first place (along with giving away those SCOTUS appointments which got Roe overturned) and they’ve done absolutely nothing to fix things in the interim, giving Trump another chance at the office in 2024. How can you in good conscious support this and actively argue against people who are more interested in changing things than maintaining the status quo that’s brought us to this point?

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            5 months ago

            Because I understand the reality of the system we live in and that one of two people is going to win in November.