• CriticalMiss@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The real question is, what changed? Why are we no longer ready to go up in arms against our governments for literally violating us?

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      1 year ago

      my conspiracy theory is dopamine addiction. The price of everything goes up way faster than the things that entertain us. I think this is intentional, they stopped giving bread but keep up the circus.

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      1 year ago

      At least in the US, the bourgeoisie was successful in breaking working class consciousness and solidarity. Technically speaking, we could always protest and bring up arms against them, but without these things, not enough people recognize the truth about their oppression and work together against it. Though from what I’ve seen, things are starting to change.

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      1 year ago

      Divide and conquer aka culture war. Too many people were convinced that brown people, queer people and women having abortions are what’s threatening their wellbeing instead of capitalists exploiting everyone.