They’ve Been Testing Us to See If We’d Ever Have a Revolution. We Didn’t. (spencerdavisgray.substack.com)

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An experiment in obedience, and we passed with flying colors.

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[-] DredPyr8Roberts@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Revolution requires sacrifice, and until people having nothing to lose, lives are not going to be put on the line. This usually requires severe hunger, and we are just not there yet. I don't see the author whipping out his gun and shooting, he's waiting for others to do it for him.

[-] Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, all famous instances of famine in america:

The Civil Rights Movement

Labor rights? The eight-hour workday, the weekend, basic workplace safety? Those didn’t come from asking nicely either, folks. The rights you enjoy as a worker came from hard nosed strikes that fucked with entire industries.

And please don’t get me started on women’s suffrage because decades of meek, peaceful petitioning and asking nicely spun its wheels in the mud.

Pride started June 28, 1969 with a damn riot, not a corporate rainbow parade.

And internationally:

France loses its shit over pension reform and South Korea impeached a president and put her in prison.

But it's not like there aren't people dying right now either:

We’ve got people literally dying because they can’t afford insulin or their asthma inhaler and we just shrug.

I don't see the author whipping out his gun and shooting, he's waiting for others to do it for him.

Why would he write about his crimes on the internet?

[-] SarahValentine@pawb.social 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_Quality_of_Life_(episode)#Summary

Lol no. They just have no idea how far they are from winning, or how hard their target really is. They'll do a lot of damage, but then they will die. They rise up against us, we keep being born from among them. They have no idea what they're fighting or why. We are their future. All the alarm bells in the world won't budge us because we know they lost the minute they took that side.

[-] Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online 0 points 2 weeks ago

If you read this and take it personally, digging your heels in, maybe...don't?

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