Nearly 90 million people didn’t vote in the USA 2024 election. If you don’t want to become an American, don’t act like one.
🇨🇦 ✊ 🇨🇦 GET OUT AND VOTE 🇨🇦 ✊ 🇨🇦
no excuses: https://www.elections.ca/home.aspx/
this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2025
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New rule: Suspect and distance yourself from anyone who says, "you're only voting/volunteering/donating/canvassing/protesting/contacting representatives, etc. iT's NoT gOiNg To aCcoMpLiSh AnYtHiNg!". Yeah, doing nothing and trying to get others to do the same is the only way to guarantee nothing changes!
Absolutely! There is no good reason to oppose protests but here are a few of the ones I've seen around here:
- It'll put you on the list for 'no reason'
-- If nonviolent protest will put you on 'the list', then you're already on the list. We're all on the list. But it's a big list, because we have the numbers on our side.
- It accomplishes nothing!
-- No, nothing accomplishes nothing. If your choices are between "nothing" and "something", do something. If your choices are between "nothing" and "vague appeal to violence", that's not a choice, that's a trap. Even people who believe in those solutions would never try to dissuade you! because public unrest would obviously only help their cause.
- You're provoking them! They'll enact martial law!
-- No, they provoked us. they are not 'waiting for an excuse'. Nonviolent protests and the exercise of free speech do not provoke oppression, that is victim-blaming.
If they want violence, they will bring the violence, and manufacture whatever excuses they need. Please see the Reichstag fire.
People who say "do nothing" are full of shit, but there's some merit to "we need to escalate yesterday". Getting swept up in the tide and not noticing where you actually stand is the second-worst thing you can do, the worst of course being not doing anything.
This is exactly how it should be handled. Don't let the Republican party have an escape path of pushing out away from 47 when the policies turn the US economy and world standing to shit.
It is The Republicans who are doing this, all of them, not just some single psychotic politician. The GOP should never be trusted with even the power of a city commision job ever again adter this all blows up. The 33% (or whatever it is) of the possible voters who chose red should bear full responsibility for what they have approved happening. They can't just say they "couldn't have known".
I don't understand "couldn't have known"-ers, I knew, so why can't you?
It's truly "could have known but didn't bother" for that lot.
Nobody is immune to propaganda, even me.
The Republican Party will absolutely try disassociate from Trump if it becomes clear that they are going to lose votes due to his policies. But they had their chance in January of 2020 to fix the Trump problem and they did not. So they are 100% complicit.
Yeah I really think it's time to move away from focusing on these people's trivial grammatical errors etc. and turning them into memes to amuse each other. Do less of that. Yesterday I saw that Trump misapplied the word "country" to the EU, and played golf instead of visiting the graves of veterans. That's just fluff, folks. All it does is prove you're obsessed with every word he says and every step he takes or doesn't take. More important are the implications of what he's doing - like what are the consequences of opening national forests to logging? What does he personally stand to gain from that? (because everything he does is for his own gain) How will it advance the MAGA agenda? That's the stuff we have to think about, not how he misspells things or what he eats for breakfast.
What is the point of not saying Trump's name?
To me, solely referring to him as '47' or something along those lines just comes off as childish or petty. Can anyone explain a reasoning behind this?
I took it to mean we need to shift the focus of conversation to the entire republican administration, as per point 10.
Trump is a diva lightning rod. He lives on attention. As well by blaming him directly you indirectly absolve his surrounding Republican party. Meaning when trump dies or goes away, they can slot in JD vance and because trump ate all the complaints they will be given leeway to continue their fascism
Ding ding ding
Problem is that it does feel damn satisfying to aim the vitriol directly at him. But even bad PR is good PR as they say.
I can live with this idea. Other than when how much I actively and intentionally want him to suffer in every way possible. I don't want him to know death until he explores the full spectrum of pain and as he goes I hope he starts to see signs that everything he's ever done start to fall apart and that he will be forgotten quickly.
Basically I want the absolute worst death humanly possible. To the infinityeth power.
Love these suggestions.
As for #1, my name for him is HitlerPig. That's the name given by the young staffers in the Biden White House, and I found it simulateously vicious, hilarious, and accurate. I try to only use that name when posting, and I encourage others to use it as well.
My alternate name for him is Agent Krasnov, or just Krasnov, which is the code name given to him by Soviets when he visited them in 1987. They were shocked at how easily manipulated he could be by feeding him cheap, insincere flattery. I've seen lots of people use Krasnov.
As a person with a strong arts background, I also appreciate the call to support the arts. Beauty is an effective antidote for evil.
The one thing I slightly disagree with is attaching the Republicans to him. Its true, of course, but I orefer to refer to them as MAGA, or Nazis, or MAGA Nazis. The Republicans are facilitating them, to be sure, but the subset of the Republican party, the MAGA Nazis, need to be demonized and dehumanized. They are the true enemy, and we need to turn the Traditional Republicans against them, if we are ever going to crush them ruthlessly and mercilessly, and purge them from our government and society.
It will have to be our Democratic FDR, making an unholy alliance with the Republican Stalin, to destroy the MAGA Nazis and their Fuhrer.
As for #1, my name for him is HitlerPig
My alternate name for him is Agent Krasnov
'Alternate names' are infantile and asinine. Why not just call him 'doodyhead' while you're at it?
He does it routinely, Rush Limbaugh did it routinely (maybe where HitlerPig got it), and it's effective. They do it because they think it bothers their enemies, which means it would REALLY bother them if it were returned.
These rich, entitled, sociopathic assholes think that their money buys them respect and insulation from the ugliness of the world, most of which originates with them. Anything that tarnishes their lives and makes them feel like normal people, might make them start feeling some empathy.
I don't really believe that will happen, but I can still take pleasure in irritating them, denying them the insulation they think they're entitled to because of their money. They deserve to be as unhappy as the people they exploit.
I feel like 47 sort of legitimizes him in ways undeserved.
Lemmy is seriously struggling with #6
I disagree I think we just disagree on the powers we need to use.