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They prevent liberation by selling you back your chains with populous rhetoric and slogans
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I am American, and i am getting very tired of hearing "they CAN'T do things because they have to play by the rules!"
The rules they could change with a simple majority. And any rules they can plausibly make up as well. We can't ignore the Parliamentarian!
Under the US system, they have no more power than you. The military and the FBI are legally loyal to the President. Congressional representatives have no army.
Why don't you do something more than talk?
I'm doing far more to help people than the democrats as a whole.
Literally any one of the things I volunteer for put me ahead of the majority of them.
Why don't you stop making excuses for people who don't care about you?
Trump is worse than biden. But biden is a genocidal piece of shit just like everyone who still carries water for him.
What exactly do you expect them to do? Don't just say "something", be specific.
Keep their promises when we put them in power and stop supporting genocide.
Encourage people to take power into their own hands by any means necessary. Stop downplaying and condemning the use of violence to get shit done. If a city needs to burn down and cops need to die, then so be it.
So your big plan is either a cross between and unwinnable civil war and a terrorist movement guaranteed to drive people away from the cause.
Sure.
I'm not going to join in on your suicide by cop plan, but you go ahead. Pull a Luigi, make it count. Otherwise, wait until after November so that if wide scale uncivil disobedience becomes necessary, it will be seen as justified and not some psycho lashing out.
no, you can't prove this