I mean, both sides DO suck. But the decision being made boils down to which side you think has the best chance of leading to an eventual outcome that doesn’t suck. I’m not voting for a party I like, because frankly that doesn’t exist as a viable option, but I’m not going to not vote just because neither side is better than a 3/10. I’d rather the 3/10 than the 1/10.

I think there’s real value in being honest about your feelings. The people who represent us need to know we think they suck. The people around us need to feel like others have the same struggles we do. The space for nuance does exist.

I have not bought a Sony console since the PlayStation 2. I’ve “missed” a fair few games already. The ones that end up worth playing always seem to make their way to PC eventually.

Everything is politics. The only way to avoid politics is to completely remove yourself from society. Sorry it hurts your feelings to see, but that’s the reality of it, so get over it.

I’m not invested in this conversation from 2 years ago, but I’ll simply reject the premise that landlords have to make a profit. That’s a big maybe at best.

Seems more people got the “wrong” impression than the right one. Whatever, go off King. You’re going to anyway lol

Well, seems like it missed the mark. I’ll use the language I see fit, you language Nazi.

You can already pretend to be a kid in a room with other kids on discord! There’s a HUGE CSAM problem on it.

Mate. Read just a liiiiiiittle bit further down in YOUR OWN SCREENSHOT. Fucking YIKES.

Sounds like we just need hotter Molotov cocks.

Every time I read this the number of feet gets bigger, and the number of teeth gets smaller. Fantastic.

Imagine, cumming dildos filled with napalm. Molotov Cocks.

We didn’t eat him. I really think it’s the cannibalism that sends the message.

Ain’t no body on a high horse around here. I’m acknowledging that it’s going to be a struggle. I’m also acknowledging that eventually the struggle will become a necessity, unless you’re one of the few tenths of a percent of the population that’s actually benefitting from this madness. Things are going to get worse regardless of if we struggle and fight or not, I’m just hoping for a “better” on the other side of that worse, and it won’t happen until we’re all in on the struggle.

And that’s where the different kinds of protests come in. The single mother of 3 just trying to keep their kids fed? Sure they probably need to keep doing whatever they can to keep fresh food coming. But in the meantime, build a community. Know your neighbors. We are in this together. We fight together, we survive together, we die together. That single mother’s of 3’s struggles are not exclusively their own, they need the support of the people around them who can help. This shit is beyond individual family units and individual struggles at this point.

No one is equipped to do this alone. I don’t mean overthrow the current status quo, I mean live. We’re not designed to try to make all of our ends meet, especially not with the quality of life we’ve come to expect. We’ve gone from trusting our local community to supply and provide for us, people we know and are invested in ourselves, to putting all of that on the government and our employer, both of whom have no real motivation to help you any further than you are useful to them.

So what can a single mother of 3 do in lieu of a general strike? Build something. Build community. Build a garden. Provide shelter for those in your community who may need it. Find people you want to help because they want to help you. They’re out there, outside of the internal issues. It’s work, yes. It’ll make the day to day a bit harder but… It’s getting harder anyway.

General strike and protest cover different things, both effective means of displaying our outrage. A general strike is a form of protest.

As far as ‘materializing out of nothing’ I don’t expect that either. This is far from out of nothing, though. These sentiments have been boiling over since 2016, literally a decade. We need more voices saying “let’s do it now” and fewer saying “but I have other responsibilities”. It’s rapidly approaching the point where every possible responsibility one could have runs through this issue.

More and more our responsibilities are shifting from the personal towards a responsibility to the whole. Resistance in any form is going to mean hardship, hardship I’d much rather deal with than the country we’re heading towards. It will NEVER be easy. It will NEVER be a good time.

That’s always going to be the case. How many strikes, protests, etc have we had? There’s never going to be a good time, because you can’t hardly get 3 people on the same page about stuff, let alone 3 million. People are going to die no matter the path we choose to walk. Choosing non-violent resistance is the noble path, but it’s got its own risks. At least those risks come with the potential of a better future.

Gotta get worse before it gets better

Sure it’s difficult for someone trying to support their family. It’s also difficult for someone trying to support their family to have the sole breadwinner captured, deported, or killed. Inconvenience doesn’t justify inaction. And, for those who have, in addition to just striking, they need to be helping their neighbors. This whole thing isn’t going anywhere unless we work together and stop thinking of each person as an individual unit.

We need to shut down and STAY shut down. Jan 30 needs to be the first day of an indefinite movement.

Very ‘look what you made me do’ abuser talk of you Pedonald. Did the Democrats make you stick your penis in children too?