I do agree with and appreciate the nuance, it’s clear from your careful wording you understand conservatism by definition doesn’t have a cause to stand for, hence reactionary. It’s apt in a good faith discussion.

My problem is supplying ammunition for bad faith discussion. Like what “libertarians” are to conservatives. They’ll claim they’re not conservatives, they’re just libertarians. All the while supporting the same goals with a different name.

Just call it what it is. It’s fascist. It’s the fascist party. All of these - afd, maga, same unimaginative shit.

Inventing new terms is what these fuckers want. Remind them they’re not new and been wrong before.

Niooce.

Well, AOC is often only referred to by her initials

Actually, I think it shows how susceptible people are to what media tells them. The word is getting out to resist and organize. Traditional media doesn’t have full control, but it is working to slow the reaction down.

Furthermore, people have a much tighter leash to their corporate overlords/sponsors, they have to be strategic about which protest (if they even have the energy).

So yeah, it’s dumb and circumstances. But we’ve been been engineered down this path for the past few decades, it’s coming for you too.

Fuck capitalism.

I think the bigger issue isn’t even cost. Fuck, most people in CA can deal with $30 if the process was instant. Let’s not pretend that’s what stopping people

The real issue is taking the day off from work to wait your ass in DMV lines when you really rather just stay home in bed if you’re gonna spend a day not grinding down to a mental break

Besides bluesky, can we start seeing more of the protests here on lemmy? And see it flood the pages here? If someone just posts one a day from each location, that will kick start enough people to join

Nah, we tried appealing to the center shit and that got us nowhere. Go hard on restoring working class America. Fuck racism, sexism, and ignorance - that shit got us a slow slide down to where we are now .

Kick the fucking oligarchs out and tax the fuck out of them. Rich should mean enough money to be very comfortable and never worry again, but not enough to buy elections.

Sigh… you wish violent protest would be common.

This country is so neutered on peace messages and frazzled in disinformation we can’t even march in a single direction together.

Everyone is one paycheck away from losing everything, and don’t want to bank it on the fact that the protest they skip work for will change anything… Because so far they haven’t.

Maybe it’s time to go door to door asking people to join a march to DC and every capitol?