• HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca
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      28 days ago

      For starters, building a position for yourself (if you can) that makes it so you don’t, like almost every other American, say “I can’t do anything about it, I have to take care of myself and my family”.

      It’s about future generations. It has been for a while.

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          27 days ago

          Everyone is in at a certain point. At least decide now what the point is that you’d be in, so that when it hits you know it’s time. Otherwise you’re another frog being boiled and never noticing.

          Ie. If the point where you join the solution is “the president is an incontinent, narcissistic rapist pedophile”, then you would have already been fighting a long time ago.

          Is it “when they’re at my door trying to take my kids”? Hopefully not quite that late. But somewhere between that and “the US has literally been taken over by a gang of fascists and oligarchs” there’s got to be something that hasn’t happened yet that will get people going…

          It’s not “innocent US citizens being murdered by federal agents”. It’s not “literal concentration camps holding legal permanent residents”. Only you know what it is.

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            27 days ago

            If I resorted to violence every time the US pissed me off I’d be dead or in prison decades ago.

            It’s a shitty country and I barely care enough to vote.

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      27 days ago

      Voting against the fascists, for starters.
      Showing up at protests.
      Donating your time and money for causes you belive in.
      Actually be active, and not an armchair activist.
      When the time comes, take to the streets if necessary.