ID: line drawing of an upright bunny with a black bandana tied around their neck, holding a lit match in their mouth like you might a toothpick. The text says “we can’t just vote fascism away, the time has come to disobey. (be brave!)”

  • deaf_fish@lemm.eeEnglish
    6·
    56 minutes ago

    I still have hope that we will have a democracy in 4 years. We’ll see how it goes. It might be time to get a firearm and start putting in some range time.

    • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      35 minutes ago

      Also do these other things… Read a few books on guerrilla warfare and tactics.

      Learn to sew

      Learn to operate a radio

      Grow your own food

      Generate your own power

      Fascists government are going to target your comfort and communication in order to enforce compliance.

  • Euphorazine@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 hours ago

    I’m still feeling bitter and a fast food place last night asked me to tip, so it got me thinking that maybe this is the time to push out tipping culture. If the country wants the party of “fuck you, I got mine”, then fight your own battles for your wage.

    Legally, if they don’t make minimum wage through tips then the employer has to make up the difference (in practice this likely doesn’t happen). Maybe it will make them care more about the minimum wage if it affects them.

    • squid_slime@lemm.eeMEnglish
      3·
      51 minutes ago

      instead i would say you could tip and hand out union material now that would really fuck the rulling class off.

    • ShareMySims@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      3·
      1 hour ago

      I can see where you’re coming from in theory, but if we rely on employers to treat employees fairly we’ll be waiting a long time (they’re already demonstrating that they would rather ignore the law and potentially face a minor fine, than pay the minimum wage), and the only ones who will suffer will be the sub-minimum wage employees who now aren’t getting that tip either.

      You make people care by building solidarity with them, not by using them as a bargaining chip.

    • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.comEnglish
      1·
      43 minutes ago

      The cashier making MacMinimum Wage needs your political throttling ?

      They are your emotional pawn because you look down at them being poor ?

      What a great Democrat you turned out to be. You could run for president with that kind of attitude.

  • Zachariah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3313·
    5 hours ago

    We could have voted it away. And it would have been way easier than the alternatives. But we chose not to.

    But since we didn’t organize to vote it away, I’m not sure how we’re going to organize a general strike. And anything else is so difficult and so messy and has very little guarantee of improving anyone’s conditions.

    • ShareMySims@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      175·
      4 hours ago

      We could have voted it away.

      Lmfao, news flash: it’s already here, has been for a while.

      Never mind that never in history has tyranny ever been voted away. To think otherwise you must completely misunderstand what tyranny and fascism are, as well as how the current establishment functions.

      • Perhapsjustsniffit@lemmy.caEnglish
        81·
        3 hours ago

        Vote it away. It’s been a joke for so long and people cling to the idea that it works so badly. I am Canadian. We are also past voting. The systems of government must be torn down. They are corrupt and do not work for the people.

        • ShareMySims@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
          5·
          3 hours ago

          Hear hear…

          I’m in the UK and we have the same situation + monarchy, for added funsies. I keep thinking people are getting enough of a glimpse behind the curtain at the fact that the system wasn’t designed to serve them, but to centralise power in the hands of very few people who exploit the rest to continuously strengthen their own power, but part of those efforts are the propaganda, and it just goes to show how well it works that despite so much ugly truth being revealed over and over, some people still see “my team vs your team” as the only way to exist. It’s both sad and very scary.

    • Smith6826English
      101·
      4 hours ago

      We could have voted it away.

      Don’t forget gerrymandering and other fraudulent methods of deciding victory like the electoral college being baked into this diseased system.

      They only give the illusion of choice.

      • Ricky Rigatoni@lemm.eeEnglish
        43·
        2 hours ago

        None of that stopped Biden from winning last time when people actually showed the fuck up to the polls.

        • Smith6826English
          32·
          2 hours ago

          The 2-parties in this monopolized system are owned by the same corporate interests and mega-rich. Everything is by their design. We never had a choice.

          The system will never work for us, because it’s working as intended. We need to annihilate it and start from scratch. There is no fixing it from the inside and hoping the next person isn’t just another lesser evil to vote for.

            • Smith6826English
              22·
              2 hours ago

              How does enabling a fascist help us on this path?

              Are you responding to the wrong person? Who’s talking about enabling fascists?

              • Ricky Rigatoni@lemm.eeEnglish
                22·
                2 hours ago

                How does not voting and allowing a fascist to win allow us to dismantle the system?

                • Smith6826English
                  3·
                  2 hours ago

                  How does not voting and allowing a fascist to win allow us to dismantle the system?

                  Who the hell said to not vote? I’m saying it’s not the cure for this diseased system that we need to dismantle and rebuild. Vote on that 1 day, then organize with like-minded people to enact some real change every other day.

                  Please don’t twist my words.

  • penguinsAreRapists@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    2 hours ago

    Fuck these fuckin’ fascists (Fuck these fascists) Fuck their family and friends (And their friends) If they defend a fuckin’ fascist (Their ancestors) They can fuck off 'til they’re dead (And all their kids)

    • Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteEnglish
      111·
      4 hours ago

      They used to own tons, but sadly since the boating mishap, they’re all at scattered at the bottom of a really deep lake.

      Who would have thought that bringing every single one of your legally purchased firearms onto a small boat to show them the world would be a bad idea?

      Oh well, no need to look for them.

        • Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteEnglish
          4·
          1 hour ago

          It’s just a joke about how people “don’t have any guns” because they lost them. Not stolen because they would have to report that. They’re somewhere unreachable that you technically COULD verify, but likely wouldn’t unless there’s a very specific (usually requiring a warrant to get people to move) reason.

          So “boating accident” is to goto joke accident. Nobody would actually believe you if you said that to a cop, judge, or courtroom.