• raskolnikov@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    American friends, what are you waiting for to deploy your guillotines?

    Sure we are getting fucked all over the world but it seems that you are having it way worse…

    • شاهد على إبادة@lemm.ee
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      1 hour ago

      The US is still rich and prosperous by any standard and isn’t doing “way worse”. It is regressing by developed countries’ standard, but most of the world is still developing.

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      3 hours ago

      We’re too poor and too far away from the capitol. It would take days for me to drive to Washington D.C. and if I miss that much work I’ll lose my home and other things. Then nothing will change and I’ll be homeless for a while :(

    • brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      8 hours ago

      Honestly, this is probably people forgetting the size of the country.

      The people who deserve the guillotine are in Washington d.c. the vast majority of the country is very, very fucking far away. California to Washington DC is 4 times the distance from London to Berlin.

      4,495 kilometers away.

      If we were all within a 4 hour drive of our capital, we could riot or protest as an entire country where the people in power are. But asking the entire USA to protest at once is an enormous undertaking. People are just so fucking far away from the people making the decisions and doing the harm.

      We are so broke as a country living paycheck to paycheck people can’t take a week off work to go to a protest and no one is organizing the travel of all these people to the capital. We should have groups organizing buses from every corner of the country to Washington and building some infrastructure for people to live and camp indefinitely causing every politician in Washington to know our opinion and demand them to work for us again.

    • VirtigoMommy@sh.itjust.works
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      1 day ago

      Sorry can’t afford a guillotine, too preoccupied with trying to get enough overtime to afford basic necessities to be starting a revolution nobody else will show up for 🤷‍♀️