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[–] [email protected] 133 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Unfortunately the world often does the fucking around part for you, and you're stuck finding out with them. Sincerely a Remainer being forced to find out on Brexit.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Boy, what a reversal we have now. Around when Brexit finally happened, the US kicked Trump out of office. It felt like we were going in the right direction and the UK wasn't. Now the UK has put Labour back in power while we're going all-in on fascism. Fuck. We should have just stuck with the monarchy.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Instructions unclear, now the US is installing a new monarchy

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

No, not like that!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Don't worry - I'm sure in a few years time when our next election comes up, our population will have forgotten about the previous decade of getting fucked by the Tories, and immediately put them, Reform-UK, or some other alt-right party into power for round 2 just like you guys

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Probably. The apple doesn't seem to have fallen far from the tree.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago

Jon Baker

Jon Baker

Ban Joker

🤯🤯🤯

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Also there's no opting out if you didn't fucking vote. You can't be complicit in opting out.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

With the electoral college and FPTP, even opting in is of dubious benefit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

You should still do it obviously, but it is a rigged system.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I learned early on as a child that you might as well participate in the fucking around because you're just gonna get lumped in with the rest of them when the finding out happens.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

Me too thanks

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If Nato fails and Russia attacks, I'm not going to fight. All those xenophobic extremists nationalists in my country that fell for the Russian propaganda can clean up their own mess they caused.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If Nato fails and Russia attacks

That already happened back in 2022 (arguably all the way back to '08). NATO didn't do shit because it's just the US military wearing a dozen different European baseball caps. And after the US finished scrubbing out of both Iraq and Afghanistan, it didn't have the logistics to launch another Asiatic land war (while keeping China at gunpoint in the Pacific and Iran in check in the Middle East).

American slippage is already apparent across Latin America, Africa, and the South Pacific. Things are only going to get worse for DC going forward.

You would have to be suicidal to stick your neck into that mess, at this stage of the game.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

I feel like I didn't fuck around enough to help...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Ha ha

Too bad

It's been chosen to fuck around and find out on behalf of our entire society

The innocent, the guilty, doesn't matter. We're all going to find out.

I hope everyone involved in bringing this down on us is happy with themselves. I'm sure most of them will be fine, of course.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Opt out of as much of their levers of power as you can. Deny them your eyes and your money. Use your eyes to look around you and see where you can push counter propaganda in your local community. Use your money to help the people you are in community with. The christo-fascists use money to "help" the homeless with soup kitchens that force people to renounce what they know to be true before being served. Mutual aid is not just about harm reduction, it's about freeing minds. Serving someone food is an act of liberation. It's an act of a true and powerful love that's been written about by theorists and philosophers for millennia. It's even at the core of who Jesus was at his core, it's just the christo-fascists misinterpret which group of people in revelations they are

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So I like where you're going with this, and it's the kind of thing that's been bubbling in my brain for a bit now, but question: I've been to a few soup kitchens in different areas of my own country. Never once have I witnessed or heard of anyone having to renounce anything to get served. You show up, you get fed - there's Jesus freaks in the wings who may use the opportunity to try and convert you, sure, but if you walk away from them it doesn't mean they take your plate.

Do you have any specific examples you can point to where this isn't the case? If nothing else, helps name and shame.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

look for elca run soup kitchens, as well as anything run by a local community action center. avoid the salvation army and anything run by any church you already know to be trouble. if you do go, spread counter propaganda to their misinterpretations of the bible: come prepared

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Sometimes we all just have to find out, if there's to be any chance of getting them to stop fucking around. 😐

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

The fact you did nothing either way makes you complicit in the worst act

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Your collective choice as a country is to currently fuck around for four years. You are committed to that. It's not like there's an option like insurrection or

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