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The government literally has bombed its own citizens because they dared to rise up against them. Look at the MOVE protests in Philly. The government is not “us
by aaomidi 3y ago
The government literally has bombed its own citizens because they dared to rise up against them.
Look at the MOVE protests in Philly. The government is not “us”. That’s a fairytale they tell you in AP government classes. If the government “was us”, we’d have actually addressed many of the problems plaguing us today.
Our input to the government is picking from a candidate from a bunch of actual fascists and proto fascists. Whenever they don’t like our pick, the very rare time someone has been outside of that choice pool, a bunch of unheard of systems come into place to nullify our choice.
Princeton did a multi year study into this: https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746 https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746
- salawat 3y agoDoesn't obviate my point. Even if the Government bombs "us"... Who made the bombs? Brewed the explosives? Manufactured the fasteners? Built the loading equipment? Staffed the Armed Forces? We did. We do. We will continue to. Collective action on our part is indistinguishable from Government. It just so happens when you try to spawn a new one that doesn't have enough popular support, the response by the incumbent is to crush, delegitimize, and exemplify the consequences of so doing through the treatments applied to the uprisers. If you would oust the king, you damn well better be fully committed, and better well win. Because for them, to let you succeed or exist is a matter of existential importance.