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The corruption is really open at this point.

Given how close the polls are, if want to stop this, Americans here going to need to actively work to help elect Biden. That means checking your voter registration, talking with people you know, volunteering, and financially supporting the campaign

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[–] clutchtwopointzero@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I just don't get why university students put all their energy on problems long away and overseas when they don't take up activism to make their own country better

[–] huginn@feddit.it 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Nobody organizes sit-ins and protests for the homeless... Because when they have nobody showed up.

Up to 45k people die of homelessness every year in the USA. Nobody cares about them. It infuriates me.

[–] SolNine@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago

Don't actually bring up reasonable topics, people might get outraged.

I've been trying for quite some time to understand what drives the social outrage Zeitgeist, at the moment much of it seems like TikTok.

[–] Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 months ago

They do. They also do this. You can do both.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 3 points 6 months ago

Because people organized to make it happen.

[–] GarlicToast@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago

The current Iranian government raised up after a revolution led by Marxists and Islamists. After they dropped the previews government, the Islamists turned on the Marxists. This is why we have pictures of secular society from 50 years ago taken in Iran.

I don't know, I assume, the Marxists got manipulated again now along with far left.

Russia already managed to organize both pro and anti demonstrations inside the US to get USA citizens to kill each other on other topics.

No reason to think people's critical thinking was upgraded.