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[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 45 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

If you want revolutionary action:

  • Start or contribute to a community garden
  • Help round up unused meds to distribute to people in need
  • Help with Food Not Bombs
  • Donate clothing and other goods
  • Stop buying needless shit
  • Pirate everything; subscribe to nothing
  • Donate school supplies
  • Tear down and disable Flock cameras
  • Attend public forums and speak up to your local officials

Revolution is never going to be one big action or event that kicks off. Not like the movies try to convey it. It’s a collective rejection of things we have control over—most of which involve our wallets.

You wanna vote? Vote. Don’t want to? Don’t. The reality and the thing that folks need to grasp is that the ruling class will never let you vote away their power. Argue all day long; it doesn’t matter. It’s a fact. You can either sit around wishing you had the power to flip a switch, or you can do things on a local level to help those in need.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 week ago

I'd also add joining a revolutionary party.

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[–] Sandouq_Dyatha@lemmy.ml 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I would rather liberals don't have a revolution, last thing I want is more liberalism

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Liberal revolution be like:

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[–] rsky@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Same applies to modern protest. A big rule of thumb for this shit is: Can the evil leaders ignore what you're doing? If so, they will. If you cry about how there should be "no kings;" you're essentially hoping that the worst people on earth suddenly develop a conscience, hear your plea, and correct all of the bad things they've done. No, they'll just ignore it. Here are some disruptions to the status quo that they can't ignore:

  • The economy (go on strike, protest on weekdays, don't be orderly, in-fact, be a total nuisance to the day-to-day operations in a city - preferably a "high value" location)
  • The panopticon (ruin the surveillance state - protest the cameras, protest the data centers (also helps the last point), protest the infrastructure that these things rely on)
  • Their livelyhood (protest where they live. And there's plenty to choose from; the shear number of people whose decisions actively fuck your life is astounding)

Just remember: don't harm anyone or anything. Protest them. Got it? Good.

[–] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

don't harm anyone or anything

Okay and when they just decide you are enough of a nuisance that they decide to start killing and disappearing your organizers (which is the stage we have been at for like a century in the US) then what?

Pure nonviolence is a great way to get yourself killed.

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[–] distal@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Joining a union or creating one is one of the most subversive things one can do in this day and age. Propaganda for unions is very effective at leveraging the class schism in favour of workers/socialism.

Just don't a union that advocates creating large weaponry or represents law enforcement/servants of the state.

Proper unionising makes capitalists piss their pants. I have read a ton about politics (to my detriment – rip mental health) and it seems to really give you the most bang for your buck.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Unions are good, but you also need a political party that can go beyond trade unionism into an all-sided class struggle.

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[–] TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (4 children)

It shouldn't be all that surprising that liberals choose to continue to participate in liberal democracy. It's their system. They want to see it maintained, they don't want to see it dismantled or replaced. They like things the way they are, more or less, and they don't want to see things radically change.

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[–] LemmyBruceLeeMarvin@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

Harm reduction voting is kicking the can down the road, or in Christian terms 'robbing peter to pay paul'

It's based in fear and cowardice. The only way we will ever change anything is if we are collectively fearless and fucking stand for principles

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