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Christ some of you people are so smug.

Listen friend, I didn't insult you. How about instead of attacking people out of nowhere you extend the benefit of the doubt that someone is engaging in good faith? Like I assume you'd like people to do for you.

never follow it up with any inspiration or call to actions

I've shared all the same advice and links you have in this post. I just don't do it every time because I'm not a robot.

It's more "it's time to try something else."

I don't know who else needs to hear this, but electoralism is over in the United States. These people have stopped playing by any rules.

This is in our hands now. Nobody's coming to the rescue.

When they don't cede it we take it. There's hundreds of millions of us and only a handful of them.

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You feel this way because you've been intentionally individualized.

There is strength in community, but community threatens the capitalist class so they've done everything they possibly could to drive wedges between us.

You're absolutely right that nobody is coming to save us. That means it's up to us to save each other. It's not too late.

Yes, because that's obviously what I meant. You totally got the exact right thing out of what I wrote and didn't read your own bullshit into it at all. You sure got me pegged.

Fucking toad.

Which is fucking terrifying and why I've (and others) been screaming that nobody is coming to save us, we have to save each other. Put down the identity stuff for now and rekindle the militant labor movements we used to have in this country. Withholding our labor is the only way out of this - they need us a lot more than we need them.

Most of the members of Congress are extremely wealthy, Republican and Democrat alike. They're not doing anything about this coup consolidating capitalist class power because they stand to personally gain from it. They don't have to pretend to not have the votes to stop yet another grab at working class wallets because they can point at Elon and say "we have no power here."

There are certain people who never want to hear it, but very few national politicians give a shit about us, certainly not enough to make a difference. They're in it for personal gain, everything else is performative.

Susan Collins is worth over $4 million. She knows exactly what she's done cozying up to Musk and Trump, she stands to personally gain from a capitalist class consolidating its power over the working class.

Almost every single member of Congress stands to personally gain from what is happening right now. It's not a coincidence that Democrats in Congress are barely even making tsk tsk noises.

Regex is a write only language.

Anecdotal, but our chapter of the DSA (not radical enough for me, but it's what I've got around me) is growing rapidly. New member orientation has been standing-room-only since the election.

The Democratic party has just officially morphed into the Republican party of 30 years ago. They trotted out the Cheney's ffs.

Not like it matters. We're not voting our way out of this situation, the fascists won't let anyone take power back now that they have it. It's revolution or a technofeudal hellscape.

Ding. Both major parties have abandoned the working class, and a whole lot of people have given up on the system as a whole. Give a real choice that has a chance and people will turn up. But that means the politics-as-sports folks need to hang up their team colors, and that's only going to happen by spreading class consciousness. No war but class war.