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>"Get involved and tilt them back." Kind of easy to say when you're part of a majority. I'm part of an actually-oppressed-by-law minority. By virtue of Democra
by zo1 9y ago
>"Get involved and tilt them back."
Kind of easy to say when you're part of a majority. I'm part of an actually-oppressed-by-law minority. By virtue of Democracy, my minority's say has very little effect unless it's shared by the majority.
>"We're allowed to involve ourselves in the politics and push to update, modify, and otherwise "improve" the regulations."
It's always a game of compromise based on who has more numbers. Until such a time as arbitrarily small groups can self-aggregate within an area and split-off from a larger governing entity, it'll never be any better for minorities.
- asdff66asdf6 9y agoWe're both part of the exploited majority. I'm not sitting on fuck you money. I grew up in a trailer on gov cheese, eating spam, being told I'm a mooch for not being born rich. I'm 1/4 native american, though I look white. I knew my 100% native american relatives. I heard the stories, passed down. I literally smashed some racist a-hole in the face while hassling my obviously native american grandmother, among numerous other encounters. I mean it's easy to say you know what I am, and not have a clue. Don't stand up to the machine itself then. Stand up to your family, friends, and neighbors. Challenge them to find ways to get off these services and avoid mindless consumption. I've been helping people setup Raspberry Pi's with Syncthing to share their private files (mostly pictures). Fuck Facebook and Snap. Undermine them. I am seriously weirded out by the tech scene, with all these smart folks that mindlessly go work for these companies rather than using their knowledge to simply help their neighbors solve problems. Narcissists and sycophants the lot of them. Our time and effort are the means of production. Point them at alternative solutions. It's actually easier than you think
- PatentTroll 9y agoYeah, this is somewhat heretical but I feel like democracy works best with monoculture, not the pluralist society that we have. Which is sad, in a way, but it seems like maybe the US is just too big, maybe we should embrace federalism and shift more and more power to the states. That way Kansas can go full Somalia and California can become a Nordic satellite state. Maybe everyone would be happier? Seriously.
- specialist 9y agoHomophily
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