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When do we riot? (lemmy.zip)
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How bad do we let things get? Should we wait until the planet can't sustain life anymore? Should we wait until it's 100 degrees F in the Artic? Until wildfires blanket entire continents or the last glacier is gone? Should we wait until fascist billionaires take even more from us? Until there are Flock cameras at every mail box? Maybe we should wait until the wells run dry or the tornadoes never stop. When is it going to be enough? I'm so tired of seeing things getting worse. Every. Single. Day. I'm ready. I've been ready. How about you?

How do we coordinate? How do we look after each other? What is the signal? If we don't work together then we are just continuing our slow march to destruction to the drum of the parasitic billionaires. Please, for us, for the cats, the dogs, the birds and trees. The fish and the whales, the beatles and the centipedes. Please tell me it's worth it to you, that you're willing to get uncomfortable, that you're willing to fight. There are more of us than them, and we are rapidly running out of time to make that mean something.

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[–] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 child)

Hey OP here's a song that matches this post. (seriously it's so fucking hardcore everyone needs to give it a listen)

Beast - Devil

If the sun vaporized one day And the moon just faded away Would we still, keep going on At this pit of the mining pace

Should the birds fall to the ground And the fish die of thirst Would we still keep on living The way it's always been

Now if the air could burn my lungs And the earth were only rocks Would it make us stop and realize That we rot, that we can't go on like this

Devil, oh, devil Why don't you tell me why I'm a slave in these desperate times

In this time that we could almost choose The color of our children's eyes Can we still, keep going on living When the monster turns on us

Before the sun doesn't rise one day, huh And the moon just dies away There is one thing (What?) One thing what, uh That we'll never change Is that we're only learning to survive You might also like Microcyte Beast (CAN) Mr. Hurricane Beast (CAN) Total Eclipse of the Heart Bonnie Tyler Devil, oh, devil Why don't you tell me why I'm a slave in these desperate times

If the sun vaporized one day And the moon just faded away Would we still, keep going on At this pit of the mining pace

Should the birds fall to the ground And the fish die of thirst And the earth were only rocks Would we still keep on living The way it's always been

Now if the air could burn my lungs And the earth were only rocks Would it make us stop and realize That we can't go on like this

Devil, oh, devil Why don't you tell me why I'm a slave in these desperate times

Devil, oh, devil Why don't you tell me why I'm a slave in these desperate times

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    Another relevant song - Would You Be Impressed? - Streetlight Manifesto

    Would you be upset if I told you we were dying?

    And every cure they gave us was a lie?

    Oh, do they mean it when they say we're dead and doomed

    And every single symptom brings us closer to the tomb

    And who will take the credit for our swift impending fall?

    Because it's not my fault!

    Would you be impressed if I said that the dead would help us counting every single moment that we waste our time?

    All this time we're spending vaccinating this disease, I just get dizzy when I think of all the ways we try to hide our maladies

    We wine, we dine, and everything is fine

    Because it's not my fault!

    Go now, the others they'll await you

    And every single one of the lot of you will have your turn

    Ai! Ai! Ai! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!

    Likes moths that fly into the flame, it always ends up so

    You'll scream, "Not me! Take anybody else, because it's not my fault!"

    I had a dream last night where everyone was trying

    Subconsciously I knew it was a lie!

    And when I woke I knew that it was time to pray

    To make amends before the end, before my judgment day

    I looked around, I stood alone and I knew what I had to say

    I said "It's all my fault!"

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    I like, "Die Ärtzte - Deine Schuld". Translated the lyrics are "It's not your fault that the world is how it is; it would only be your fault if it stayed that way." It gives me a little hope that even if they don't know what to do, other people feel similarly.

    My suggestion to OP would be to collect a few friends and contact your congress people together, mow your elderly neighbors lawn, volunteer somewhere. We need to unite the working class. People who already struggle to eat, won't ever be ready to discuss the philosophy of social/political change until we give them a hand up Mazlow's hierarchy of needs. Mamdami is having success in New York by meeting people where they're at and proving he can do shit by solving neighborhood issues and stuff that affect normal people. Now he has cred with those people.

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