I’m shocked that I haven’t seen one protest yet. Is the media suppressing them? If there aren’t any, why?

  • foggy@lemmy.world
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    It’s going to take a unifying event that is unifyingly abhorrent.

    Until that show drops, no movement will take enough momentum with it.

    Wait until a Mayors daughter gets sent to gitmo for protesting at college. Wait until the social security checks bounce. Wait until the next viral George Floyd police killing.

    The tension is simmering.

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      22 hours ago

      I think that the thing that made the protests for George Floyd and Covid policies so widespread was people were out of work. The capitalist system has done a very good job of binding us to our jobs. we need a change that will put large amounts of people on the streets with little to lose. An economic collapse might do it.

    • Match!!@pawb.social
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      23 hours ago

      this is the classic Rosa Luxemburg vs Lenin dichotomy of revolutionary spontaneity vs vanguardism. do we organize, wait for the opportune moment, both?

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        23 hours ago

        I’ve been posting and reposting my little “Eggsecution” short story everywhere I see eggs come up in politics.

        I’m hoping the egg economy goes tits up, we have the great American egg famine, and then once rid of the impending bird flu pandemic, egg economy goes the other way, and the masses just toss Donnie and Elmo into a concrete pit and pelt the. with eggs until they’re drowning in broke shells and egg yolk.

        “Eggs. Eggs. Eggs.”