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    • sempersigh [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      France is definitely more based than other western countries when it comes to protests but I still think they run into the same problem as most movements in the west of the dog catching a car thing.

      Like with the George Floyd movement you get everyone out and participating, you occupy a bunch of shit and then like seemingly every movement before it you run into the “well… now what?” Phase where everyone just pontificates about the situation. Everyone blinks and before you know it a year later you’re back at work just trying to get through the day like before.

      I really hope they prove me wrong.

      • Acute_Engles [he/him, any]
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        2 years ago

        Everyone blinks and before you know it a year later you’re back at work just trying to get through the day like before

        :yea: It really hurts how much this is true.

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Just rewatched Adam Curtis's Hypernormalization the other day and yeah, it's a recurring issue.

        All the revolutionaries are dead and we are running around trying to manage ourself into power. Without a dedicated political goal there can be no revolution.

        That's not to say the revolution is dead, only in stasis until we can figure out how to rebuild political consciousness beyond immediate protest and management of protest

        • bigboopballs [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          That’s not to say the revolution is dead, only in stasis until we can figure out how to rebuild political consciousness beyond immediate protest and management of protest

          yeah, the fascists have definitely got this

          • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            The fascists don't have it either, they can't even organize protests half the time. What we're gonna get is a heightening of the technocratic capitalist control system. They're gonna use Bayesian systems to try and grind us all down even more. Nash and Bool have had their time in the sun, we've been molded by fear and doubt. Now it's time for uncertainty.

            • bigboopballs [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              The fascists don’t have it either, they can’t even organize protests half the time.

              I meant the Capitalist fascists who decide what everyone thinks, not the local freikorps bums.

      • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]
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        2 years ago

        I think it's wrong to write the George Floyd protests off like that, saying that everyone just kinda "went back to work". Rome wasn't built in a day and it didn't fall in a day either.

        The people lashed out and while the system still stands, there are now more cracks in its foundation than before. Many people are disillusioned with the way things are and while there might be several more events of the public being enraged without immediate consequences, eventually there will be a straw to break the camel's back.

      • UlyssesT
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        15 days ago

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