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Still a stupid meme. People are fighting for a better tomorrow. It's just that the state also cracks down on revolutionary movements (remember Tortuguita and the Stop Cop City protests? Or Lützerath? The fucking Black Panthers?)
Also, activism burnout is also a thing, framing it like people are just too complacent is simply disrespectful. Basically a leftist version of the "still you partake in society" meme.
It also reeks of the defeatist mentality/capitalist propaganda that lefties are fighting for a miserable future. Simply a stupid meme all around and to top it all off on an unfitting date.
You think governments didn't use to crackdown in revolutionaries? There's nothing new about that.
Didn't say that there's anything new about it. I said that the meme is stupid, because it ignores that fact.
Then what's the difference between now and back then?
The state's gotten better at propaganda
Or maybe things just aren't as bad for people in first world countries and that's why we still see revolutions happening in third world countries?
It's not as if governments don't get violently overthrown anymore, it just happens in places where most people really are suffering a lot more than most people in Europe or North America are. My life isn't perfect, but I look at the lives of people in Venezuela or Bangladesh and there's no comparison to be made and I'm sure even poor people feel the same way in most first world countries.