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submitted 19 hours ago by Confidant6198@lemmy.ml to c/usa@lemmy.ml

We are constantly told that solutions to some of the greatest challenges facing poor and working class people in the U.S. do not exist. Meanwhile, billions taxpayer dollars are being used to fund the genocide of Palestinians.

That very money could have ended homelessness in the United States.

Money for our needs, not the U.S.-Israeli war machine!

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[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 9 points 11 hours ago

PSL is a Marxist Party. They believe revolution is necessary, and despise the Democrats and Republicans alike. They want their voters to vote in swing states to advertise their party platform and delegitimize the failure of the electoral system in general. They aren't pulling punches because, like all Marxists, they believe the Democrats are unacceptable as well as the Republicans.

[-] arxdat@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 hours ago

There’s a part of my brain that totally gets the logic behind needing a revolution to shake up the system, but then the other part of me is like, ‘Violence? Nah, hard pass.’ So I end up with this funny little cognitive dissonance. I’m all, ‘Yeah, REVOLUTION!’ and at the same time, ‘But let’s make sure no one gets hurt, okay?’ It’s like being stuck between a revolution and a group hug, if that even makes sense!

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 10 points 7 hours ago

‘Violence? Nah, hard pass.’

people are experience violence in this genocide to maintain the lifestyle that we're accustomed to.

we're still choosing violence when we support politicians who enable violence; it's just that, that violence isn't for us this time around.

our declining status gaurantees that the violence will eventually come back to bite us in the ass and the sooner we change things; the less violent it will be.

[-] zazazaza@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 hours ago

the sooner we change things; the less violent it will be.

this is the most succinct argument illustrating the issue that I've seen so far, kudos!

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 hours ago

unfortunately for us we've doing it for around 100 years so far so violence is already a guarantee.

the best we can do is minimize it; but an overwhelming majority hold a similar opinion to the one you shared and are acting upon it by voting for politicians whose actions are in direct contradiction to that minimization.

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