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[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 39 points 3 days ago

Literally nothing has happened

People are talking, they're mad, but nothing has happened

We've seen the rubber band get pulled and it's snapping back into place

The real question is whether or not we're going to actually get people to actually learn about why this was an inevitable act

[-] CommCat@hexbear.net 25 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I thought the Arab Spring taught us that Social Media isn't the be all and end all. Mass media was hyping the Arab Spring as the first "social media revolution", Mubarak was ousted, but the Army took over and then Morsi. Occupy Wall Street was the biggest leftist movement in America, maybe this will ignite something similar, but this time for fucks sakes, don't let another Dem sheepdog like Sanders or AOC lead the masses back to the Dems.

[-] HamManBad@hexbear.net 10 points 2 days ago

It's our job to guide people toward the PSL right now

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago
[-] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago

More like AA, am I right fellas?

[-] HamManBad@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago

I always forget that not everyone is American

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago

That's got nothing to do with it. As citizens of the biggest force of imperialism in the world, the PA and what they do is who you should be looking at.

[-] HamManBad@hexbear.net 9 points 2 days ago

Ok but imagine for a moment that someone is getting radicalized because of the shit health insurance industry. How does immediately jumping to talking about Palestine help that radicalization process? Guide them to groups that combine the Palestinian struggle with more broad based workers struggles. Start with the issues that effect their immediate material conditions and work outward from there by encouraging education and involvement in the org

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago

If we lived in Nazi Germany would you be trying to radicalize people to join a political party or to get involved in direct action?

[-] HamManBad@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago

Obviously they should join the kpd and do direct action, they're not mutually exclusive

[-] CutieBootieTootie@hexbear.net 1 points 2 days ago

¿Por qué no los dos?

[-] ChestRockwell@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago

Read If we burn for more! My reading group threads are still in /c/theory

[-] inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

Maybe an unpopular opinion but idk how organic the Arab spring really was. There’s US spooks up and down the social media companies.

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago

I could see another one in the next few years. And then another, and another. The conditions are only going to become more likely for them. My worry is we get some neoliberal release valve rather than revolution. There's a lot of clocks ticking right now and none of them are counting down to anything good.

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