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We have so much information and so little power. If only we could leverage our collective power.
Go to protests. Might seem like they don't do anything, but they give courage to the good people in power to act and they make the bad people who work with the regime scared of the consequences.
Here's message from Prof Snyders who wrote a book about Tyranny: https://youtu.be/yut2ZFaAU8k
What information we do have is regularly downplayed and whitewashed by media, if it's addressed at all. Dissent and critical voices are muted. We are distracted regularly in every direction.
We can leverage our collective power by striking and taking to the streets before the collapse hits the fan.
We need a new system, human rights for all, and direct democracy.
News should not be able to openly air propaganda without providing factual evidence and counter-arguments. There needs to be oversight for news organizations that repeatedly distort the truth, manipulate the evidence, or suppress viewpoints that differ from their own. If they cannot comply with the tenets of fair and balanced reporting, they can't air their propaganda anymore and call it news.
We need to take Lemmy's and the larger fediverse's concept and example and make decentralized media a reality for the masses. I wish I were able to spearhead this myself, but I would gladly support this effort in any way I could if an idea or plan is manifested.
https://generalstrikeus.com/
https://www.fiftyfifty.one/
You could create a lemmy community for it with the first goal of finding the ones who spearhead it.
https://50501.chat/c/mirror is already on the fediverse!
Isn't 50501 mostly opposing GOP government while you want to create a new system, human rights for all, and direct democracy?
Doesn't mean I can't participate in building class consciousness there.
The GOP is clearly heading the country to collapse, I am going to be the person calling for all of those things in their midst while people's faith in the government and the country's two-party system falters.
A surprising amount of contributors there share my sentiment, either on the fediverse or on reddit.