• bbnh69420 [she/her, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    People are checked out from local politics, that’s what institutions rely on to do things like bulldoze a park to build an urban combat training facility. It is the role of the communists to bring people into their issues

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      "Checked out" is probably underselling the us propaganda machine, the undermining of the education system, things like that. Like it's not just that american's are bad at organizing, there's a lot of institutional forces at work.

      • bbnh69420 [she/her, they/them]
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        2 years ago

        Certainly don’t intend to undersell, I just see that checking out as the result of those decades of America just rolling along