• weeeeum@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Oh I think it’s possible, but considering our useless government and the obstructionists we all know, utterly impossible.

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      8 months ago

      I think it’s less useless government and more brainwashed citizens voting against their best interests. The useless government didn’t elect itself after all.

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      8 months ago

      …I think it’s possible, but…utterly impossible.

      So you don’t think it’s possible? Have you tried to do something, and have come to that conclusion because no matter what you do, nothing seems to be changing?

      I’m not focusing on you specifically, but why people say things are “impossible “ and then you ask what, if anything, they’ve done, people will say nothing (or won’t even vote!).

      You don’t need to devote your life to something you want to change…an hour or two a week. Join an advocacy group. Go to a town hall meeting. Call your congressman. If time is something you really have ZERO of, then donate so that other people can spend more time working the change you want to see happen.

      “It’s impossible to change anything, so I’m not even gonna try”. Again, not saying this is you. I hear this “argument” so friggin often. It’s like people try and subconsciously excuse their own inaction and apathy.

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        8 months ago

        When I said “I think it’s possible” it was within the context of being able to maintain production, and economic output. Productivity per worker has increased between 30-50% within the last 40 or so years.

        When I said “utterly impossible” It was in regards to corporation control and influence in the government, as well as corporation sympathy with republicans. Considering they are obstructionists that will even deadlock mutually beneficial laws and acts, they would 100% kill something they actually oppose.

        Even with most Americans in support of Roe vs Wade, that was shut down.