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How many hexbears think there will actually be a popular revolution in the West in our time? (hexbear.net)
submitted 8 months ago by niph@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
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Genuinely curious. I keep thinking “it can’t get much worse without some kind of mass uprising” but the ability of the general population of Western states to just soak up suffering seems endless. Do you think we will actually see mass movements in the next decade or two? Or just slowly lurch into a void of ever-shittier liberalism?

By the West I mean like. Western Europe and the Anglosphere I guess.

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[–] newmou@hexbear.net 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Thinking about it, in the event of collapse, there is an astounding number of guns in the US, and most of those are owned by essentially brownshirts. BUT, they’re still working class. Will be a matter of how soon can bonds of solidarity form between common people, and will that happen faster than right wing movements can coalesce around killing out groups