Flippanarchy @lemmy.dbzer0.com ShareMySims @lemmy.dbzer0.com 3mo ago

Real talk

ID: photo of actor Sinbad in a neon pink frame, he has a wide slightly awkward smile, and has his hand out to gesture asking a question, above in pink neon letters it says: "Real talk!" and in the frame next to the photo it says in plain black text: "so are we going to overthrow the fucking government or what?", with his signature bellow

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You asshole Americans couldn’t even be bothered to show up and vote against trump, y’all not getting off the couch to overthrow anything but a box of totinos
- votes don't do shit. Guillotines sure do.
  
  both would do it, but only if you actually use them
  
  I think you missed the point.... By a lot.
  
  Also have you seen the price of couches?
- literally so true.
  
  There was so much yapping and shit throwing going on after the election happened over on lemmy, but nobody wanted to confront the truth that trump did win, because democrats, did not vote.
  
  This is the simple truth. It doesn't matter how hypothetically perfect your ideal candidate is, if you aren't going to fucking vote.
- This has been my thought since the election. We're a country of ignorant and selfish people and I'm just kinda trying to live life in the real physical world since that realization. But even then it doesn't make me feel like I live in a shared material reality with people I associate with. Social media has completely cooked a large majority of the country and nobody gives a shit.
  
  Too fucking real dude. I have lost so much hope I didn't even think I had. I am shocked at just how wretched the average American is.
- Yeah, we don't have the sauce and now we are drowning in oligarchy controlled media and propaganda.
  
  The best we can do is if Trump actively destroys the economy to the point of where people start to starve.
- I think they didn’t show up because they lost hope. There was tons of doomerism and despair on the left leading up to the election. It seems many just threw in the towel.
  
  It’s cowardly, IMO, to give up the fight and wallow in despair, and I confronted the doomerism wherever I saw it, including here, but I wouldn’t characterize it as laziness or asshole behavior.
  
  Depression and deaths of despair have been increasing in the US for decades, and the people who diligently voted blue since the housing crisis have little to show for it. So while I’m angry they didn’t show, I can see why they lost hope. They need a promise of change they can actually believe in.
singood
- I'm gonna sin so good
My wife said I can't go.
ID: photo of actor Sinbad in a neon pink frame...

Another feature to add to the wishlist in my head: alt text. Something Bluesky is getting right and something that I had never even considered before using the platform. Plus it's a pretty cool little writing exercise.
- Plus it’s a pretty cool little writing exercise.
  
  Not half, it can be a real challenge sometimes! Thankfully there are online image to text converters that do that part, but some images can be surprisingly difficult to describe, especially if I'm low on spoons and or the brain fog is in (E: so I generally move on to an easier one lol).. 😬
  
  Also happy to see alt text! Are you aware of Lemmy alt text / image description feature so that the image description does not have to be in the post body?
- Lemmy allows you to provide alt-text with the image already.
- Lemmy has alt text support and many web frontends and apps integrate that feature really well, I hope more folks start using it
There are a million ways to rebel against the new regime short of armed insurgency. In fact, you are all participating in one of them right now.
- Sure, and absolutely, not everyone would need to actively be on the front line of an armed insurgency, but don't fool yourself - this regime, and the systems that enabled it, will never go anywhere without one.
  
  I assume you are, but arm yourselves. And get proficient. Guns and ammo are not cheap, and I’ve said it before, your hypothetical adversary, has been armed and ready for a long time.
  
  That may be true. I’m just a stickler for messaging.
  
  You can be part of overthrowing this government in ways big and small. Historically it’s the “small” ways that turn the tide and, more importantly, prevent one tyrannical regime from rolling right into the next.
- Existing outside the US?
  
  Damn I wish I could do that.
  
  I meant using FOSS rather than feeding the oligopolists, but I’d say existing outside the US counts, especially if you can find additional ways to starve our economy.
Sinbad is a real good Christian name
- Sinnt
  Sinevil
  Sinless
  Sinleast
  Sinnope
  Sinpass
  Sinstop
  Sinblock
Sinbad starred in a movie where he was a secret service bodyguard for the president's son. First Kid (1996).
- He also starred in a move where he was a genie
  
  😈
Time to revolt!
short answer, no.

Long answer, through politics? yes.
- The real answer is to get so active in radical state level politics that we can flip the states rights narrative right back around and get what we want without firing a shot. The beautiful part of that strategy is that the MAGA freaks are already putting 110% of their momentum in that direction.
  
  that would be one of the ways of going about it. You can definitely abuse things like the abortion decisions in regards to states rights.
  
  Unfortunately the republicans never do anything bad ever, and the democrats are literally funded by satan himself, so L plus ratio rip bozo.
  
  Whatever we do, we need to be certain that it will at least provide some net positive to society. That's the hard part.

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