• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    It’s a nice thought, but unless toppling Tesla also somehow reverses destruction of the public education system, and also something about the complex systematic, and very much intentional, polarization of individuals through social media feeds then this won’t stop Republicans or Russia in the end.

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      Think of it more as exercise. It takes a bit for people to get rolling. If we can take down tesla, then we learn we can do more. Revolution doesn’t start at the finish line.

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        This exactly, and more people need to understand it. A one day boycott of Amazon doesn’t do much to Amazon, especially since many people will simply defer spending to the next day. What it does do is give a simple goal for people to participate who haven’t done this sort of thing before. Then you expand it to longer time periods and more targets.

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    29 days ago

    The hate to Russia is somewhat misplaced, Putinism is more or less a by product of America. It will be less a problem once Americans stop hate themselves.

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      29 days ago

      So it’s America’s fault Putin wants to reclaim old Soviet land. What kind of weak feeble minded child is Putin if that is her motivation.

      • Ferrous@lemmy.ml
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        It’s America’s fault that America is turning fascist. You don’t just get to run a 200 year political experiment built on genocide under the guidance of white landowners, and then start scapegoating Russians once that project inevitably and predictably goes fascists. This is American exceptionalism.

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          Lol, and I’m sure your country or any country other than the US wasn’t built on blood. Fuck outta here with your Russian apologist bs.

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            29 days ago

            “The wholesale American genocide of Native Americans is Ruzzian propaganda!”

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                29 days ago

                What point? That in order for any country to form, it must carry out a genocide so effective that it inspires Hitler? And I am the apologist?

                Your comment is honestly psychopathic in the way you use “blood” as a euphemism for a genocide that killed some 10 million Native Americans.