No, you lack nuance

The democrats are the people telling to duck for cover, they are not solving the problem, but they are delaying the bullet to the head

You are also not advocating anything against the system. That would require at least some action.

In your example, you are not rallying agaist Alice, you are just refusing to make a choice so the rest will do it for you

The reality is, however you got there, that either 2 or 5 people will die. Your lack of participation ensures 5 people will die

Your stance is like a person seeing a riot from afar… deciding to walk towards the riot, the closer they get the more violence they see, the worst it looks, yet this person decides it’s no problem and keeps on walking closer and closer until they get to the heart of the riot, fire everywhere bullets flying around… one group tells the person to duck and get cover but this person decides it’s all the same and maybe those bullets don’t hurt as much as people say so they decide to jump right in the middle of the street.

Finally, when a bullet is heading their way, time slows down and with the bullet inches away from their forehead they say “well, I have no choice but to eat this bullet!, there is no other recourse now, I have no choice in the matter”

And remember the follow up… If it’s legal for kids to work overnight with no breaks, it’ll soon be mandatory or you’d lose whatever social security survives…

And then it’ll just be mandatory because there is no social security safety net and you are now officially an indentured servant of the Florida kingdom

and just the significantly fewer worker rights and wages that would allow people to do those things without completely upending their entire families wellbeing, which is part of the point from the enemy yes, but that’s because it’s effective.

And this is what happens when The People continue to wait until the bad news are choking them personally before doing something about it… the combination of “fuck you, got mine” and apathy took you here and I am sorry to tell you there is no way out by being extra quiet

34,000 people for Sanders in Denver. Tell me with a straight face that this is a small number of people

No, I agree with you this is a large number (not huge considering the population of the USA but it’s a good amount)… the problem is that they went to a rally… I mean, it might as well be a concert. This is NOT a protest! If 30K people show up in DC or march somewhere, I would agree with you but they are just attending a rally

always and forever

There are massive protests all over the US.

Hmmm are there? massive? I mean I know we all use that word lightly but “massive” they are not

AOC/Bernie drawing huge crowds

Yes, Americans love rallies… that is not a protest

Corporate media won’t give it the coverage it deserves, and mainstream social media will bury it with their algorithms. Because they’re all owned by the billionaires bowing to Trump.

While I agree with this, we can see car crashes happening in China… there are plenty of uncensored outlets that at least half the people of Lemmy would know to get/repost, etc. I have been asking for evidence of these protests myself for the last few weeks and I have not seen anything more than a couple dozen people by the doors of a Gov building… not even big enough for Police to be around

They want you to feel like nobody’s doing anything. Remember that.

Agreed… and the people of the USA are making that exceedingly easy by doing barely anything

Add “brown nosing spinless wimp” to the list of acceptable descriptors of Spez

I didn’t really need another reason to love Debian more but here we are… I’m donating to Debian today