• Miller@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    You seem to be labouring under the misapprehension that the vast sweep of the common people have any power over the decisions that govern their lives at all, beyond the doomsday power of revolution. Which is hardly ever used because of the mess.

    • CosmicTurtle0 [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 hour ago

      I’ve been rewatching Community and the more I watch it, the more I feel like Britta’s “dumb” comments are real.

      “If voting had any effect, it’d be illegal!”

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        Voting has the effect of allowing the population to feel they are steering the ship when actually they are swabbing the decks.

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    Unless those infrastructure promises are built into law and enforced, they’re lies. Why do we have so many superfund sites and leaking abandoned oil wells? Because industry gets to lie and destroy as they please before using lawyers to evade responsibility through the courts until residents give up or die.

  • AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 hours ago

    Burn it down over and over. Napalm it. Vandalize the trucks and equipment. Sabotage the shit out of it until their insurance costs just aren’t worth it.

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    Now all that high tech electronics jacking from the first Fast & Furious movie doesn’t look so dumb lol.

    • ProfThadBach@lemmy.world
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      We never really had any to begin with all the way back to the founding. It is just now those in power do not give a fuck and tore off the mask.