• bostonbananarama@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Again, that’s all great, but how does it happen? What are the steps to take? Saying it will eventually happen seems even more dismissive than saying it can’t happen given current conditions.

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      11 months ago

      When half the country is literally fascist, sure you can admit it isn’t going to happen anytime soon. But that is a temporary phenomenon. Eventually, all of them will die. At some point, the US will be a country run by normal people. You’re going to have large-scale agreement for major reforms.

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        11 months ago

        The US is getting more stupid and polarised as school funding is diverted and people sign their heels in against civil discourse. It will be a long time before it is run by normal people.

        I wouldn’t cry if guns were banned entirely, but given the culture the US population has been sold for generations, common sense gun control that works handily in other countries simply won’t work in the US. We’re not wired that way.

        The best chance we have is pulling the tug o’ war rope as hard as possible just to maintain the status quo. We’re not fighting for reform, we’re fighting not to backslide.

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          11 months ago

          As the saying goes, “this too shall pass.” No one can say when, but major political shifts always happen after a while.

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            11 months ago

            That saying depends on the just world fallacy. Unfortunately, no, all things don’t necessarily pass.

            I’ve got a saying for you that’s famously used to describe every moment in Russian history: “…then it got worse.”

            It’s foolish to think things will just fix themselves. We’re hurtling full speed into climate apocalypse. Like you realize that isn’t just going to “pass” right?

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              11 months ago

              US isn’t Russia. Nor is this something no one else has ever done. It’s basically an argument from nihilism to claim that commonly solved social problems are unsolvable or aren’t part of natural progress in society.

              Climate doomerism is also a form of nihilism BTW, although it is off-topic.

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                11 months ago

                I didn’t say we’re Russia. If that’s what you took from my comment, then you definitely missed the point.

                I don’t know why you think it’s some kind of gotcha, I know what nihilism is.