• Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee
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    20 hours ago

    Look at Syria. Not today, Syria before the revolution.

    People were living through grinding poverty, political repression with performative elections of a nepo-dictator, avoiding a police state with literal death squads, and just trying to get by and support their families.

    Until Mohamed set himself on fire, and thus the Arab world.

    Americans as a whole are too comfortable (or at least, enough of them are) and propagandized into believing that this is the way it has to be, for a big societal movement to coalesce around “fuck that shit”. We’re still infighting between political camps, or distracted dealing with reactionaries.

    Expect a lot more of the “nothing to lose” shooters before another Che Guevara. Maybe we’ll come close again and claw some back, or we’ll have the United Fruit Company again.

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      too many can only see the results of tearing down a system without another to step in.

      honestly this is one of the things that frightens me, accelerationists don’t give two fucks what comes after, they just want to tear it all down.