• kibiz0r@midwest.social
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    2 days ago

    Fuck purity. Be a hypocrite. Buy sharpies and poster board from Amazon and then go protest Jeff Bezos’ next dick rocket. Do what it takes to get your message out there.

    Don’t put yourself at a disadvantage just to keep your halo. There are plenty of people out there being ideologically consistent. You never hear about them, because that gets you nowhere.

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      1 day ago

      This is kind of where I’m at. I could buy a US made shotgun for 2-3x a foreign one, or I could buy the foreign one which is just as effective against billionaires and use the saved money to help my community more.

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      I get what you’re saying and I agree. The problem I have here is that the source of message in the image is only available in one walled off garden, run by a billionaire Nazi. The blue check advertises that platform and even though this is not a direct link it does direct traffic there.

      You don’t advertise where you bought your sharpies and poster board from when you make your sign for the protest.

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      2 days ago

      Don’t put yourself at a disadvantage just to keep your halo.

      By that logic though, one could just as easily say that she should simply run under a bigger party’s ticket that is likelier to win elections.

      Nobody’s perfect, but this is one of those things that is both easy to do and has a correct answer, like returning shopping carts. Twitter is a Nazi bar, no sane person should use it, and the only thing her presence is doing over there is giving the Nazis a more visible boogeyman to rally against. I’d honestly believe more of her supporters are here on Lemmy than over there.

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        I’m more partial to the “by any means necessary” approach. The current liberal/social democratic parties aren’t in it to win it.

        I believe it’s going to take a force that is willing to use all its political and economic advantages to leverage history in favor of progress.