• Jivebunny@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    While I agree with you, don’t forget we don’t have him as our leader with his gangster powers to make you disappear. Easier to call him out at that point.

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      I appreciate the comment, we made our bed when a gun wasn’t to our head. Twice.

      And I’ll argue to the end of the world that Reagan did more harm to this country and the world than Trump can ever hope to. You don’t get to Trump without the Economic betrayal, getting the people’s opposition party permanently on the oligarch take, and the war on science/knowledge/facts/education that get in the way of short term private profit without the Reagan/Welch revolution, that infected Europe too sadly, notably cooperation of message with that bitch Thatcher. The UK is basically a little Forward Operating Base for our greed disease and conversion of nation states into exploiters of their people now.

      Trump is just the latest rot of the corpse of the shitty nation Reagan killed. He just isn’t remembered that way because feigned statesmanship as he sold us off piece by piece and set this slow coup in motion.

      Don’t. Give. Your. Economic. Elite. A. Single. Centimeter. It’s too late for us, but you can be saaaaaaaaaaaaaved.

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        Reagan started it, but Trump intends to finish it, and turn the US into a full dictatorship. There is a very real possibility of no elections in 2028…

        Hear me now believe me later, he has already chosen his successor in Elon Muck…

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        Al though I agree with a lot of what you say, I do follow some decent Americans on YouTube. There are also anti capitalist and free thinkers out there, but you know how it goes anywhere on the globe: the stupid are the loudest.

        From what I see on YouTube, there are still a lot of people in the US who do boycott, who do protest. It is just that media does not show it. You know how media is. The good thing is you don’t need most of the chunk of the population to protest, but if the few percentage that do last long enough, you can make a change.

        From what I see people organise themselves, and have strategies on how to act. And long enough boycotts are effective. You had in US history such effective boycotts. And people who are not willing to boycott or protest now, might slowly dip their toes into this mindset if there are enough examples for long enough around them.

        Do not despair, if you do, they win. Act in any way you can, even if only boycotting the big players. Build communities and rely on yourselves. I mean, look at all the countries that are boycotting also. Their wallets will be affected and they will get scared.