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Cake day: February 21st, 2025
  • gabbath@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•The Tesla protests are getting bigger — and rowdierEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Look. You need a lot of people to actually fight this thing, millions actually, and it’s preferable this fight happens while there’s still a pretense of democracy left.

    Yes, it’s helpful to frame the fight around Musk to get the point across, and you can be as mean and threatening towards him as you want — but don’t forget you’re up against a whole system here, not just Musk! If someone actually did something to him, you’d get martial law the next day and everyone vaguely leftist would get shot in the head. You don’t want that!

    Get people on your side, organize, and attack the system, and do it as legally as possible. Make them (by which I mean the party, starting with local officials) afraid of how many of you there are. Use Musk as the symbol of evil around which to get people angry, don’t advocate for someone to make him a martyr…

  • gabbath@lemmy.worldtoResist: It's Time@fedia.io•YSK about the Iron Front
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    7 days ago

    IMO the Democratic Party is just an institution. It can be taken over the same way MAGA took over the GOP. I agree a multi-party system would be better, but that requires Ranked Choice Voting and I’m not sure if even regular voting is safe right now (although this is an opportunity to reform voting into popular vote + RCV, since it’s clear the current voting system isn’t enough to protect democracy). But I digress.

    With the current system you need progressives to primary the crap out of corpo Dems. Parties don’t have ideologies, people do. Change the people and you change the party. (Incidentally, this is what Project 2025 is trying to do with the state: replace all the government workers who oppose them with Trump worshippers.)