• MyDogLovesMe@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    The sitting around, waiting for “someone” to stop the madness, instead of organizing …fucking 10 years ago.

    • gimmelemmy@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      There was a TON of organizing happening 10 years ago. Then Obama got reelected and everybody, except the people trying to do the organizing, went back to watching dancing with the stars

      Nobody wanted to listen then, so now we are all getting to enjoy the same hand basket

      Oh, and I forgot about the select few who decided that THEIR perspective outranked everybody else’s, and used their petit tyranny to remove some very good willed people from certain organizing spaces

      So, now some of us get to at least watch while those select few get hammered by this bullshit first.

      Looking at YOU Monica

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      4 days ago

      As someone who has been paying attention and organizing for much longer than that, I will say that a lack of leadership is a legitimate part of the problem. This is just as much a case of the Left selling out to neoliberalism as it is the Right gaining strength. Without unifying leadership, minor groups run the risk of working against each other or more likely wasting their strength pulling in different directions.