Sad reality for so many people in America. This is the “normal” that people want to go back to?

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Wasn't a train fare increase the catalyst that kicked a lot of cool zone things off in Chile? Comrades should probably focus on these everyday costs in people's lives. For the people that need public transport it's the cost of trains and for the people that need vehicles it's the cost of gas. Both are transportation costs and an every cost people feel ever-consistently.

    A chunk of rural America's support for imperialism is probably their transportation costs.

    • Cherufe [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Wasn’t a train fare increase the catalyst that kicked a lot of cool zone things off in Chile

      Yep, the equivalent of 4 cents. The was already terrible wealth inequality and those every day costs where taxing to a lot of the population, and both the increase in fare and the arrogant response from the goverment lead to the explosion

    • TossedAccount [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      If I'm not mistaken it wasn't long after the movement exploded in Chile that there was some parallel spontaneous activity in NYC triggered by subway cops harassing and arresting Black commuters - including several Black teenagers just trying to go between school and home - for merely being suspected of fare evasion.

    • joaomarrom [he/him, comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      Sure, same thing in Brazil. The problem is that the right wing hijacked the demonstrations, they turned into the first fashy movement of the past ten years, and ended up eroding Dilma's popularity, priming her for the coup in 2016.