• Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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      There is literally no way to change the election system right now. Check with your local board of elections if you think I’m lying.

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        There’s literally no way to send someone on American soil to El Salvador without due process. Check the Constitution if you think I’m lying. Still happened.

        Stop pretending we have to work within the system as if the system works for us.

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          Angelina Jolie can get paid $1 million for an hour’s work. You and I can’t do that.

          Some things are possible and others aren’t.

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            My example, however, is specifically something that is “not possible,” that is occurring in the very system that you are insisting is “not possible” to change.

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              You are very funny.

              Since you have such a great plan, why don’t you lay it out in detail?

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                Sure! Continue to get active in our communities, create support networks, and once you get enough supporters strike until change is implemented. That’s just a non-violent option too.

                If you’d like to learn more about things being “impossible” and still changing, maybe read a history book! Civil rights, women’s suffrage, and the rise of the AFL are great starting points.

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                  That’s not a plan, that’s a wish list.

                  Explain in detail how you’re going to get ‘first past the post’ overturned.

                  How are you going to take control of the election boards? Get new laws passed?

                  Details matter.

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                    Actually no, details don’t matter! Women’s suffrage ran on the idea they deserved the right to vote. They didn’t start out demanding a constitutional amendment specifically and immediately 😀. The civil rights movement didn’t detail how to repeal Jim Crow laws and last out step by step how to integrate the black community . Please read a book, educate yourself on how change occurs instead of constantly saying it can’t happen and doing your best to make it so (by doing nothing). The idea that you need a step by step plan to fix injustice or it’s not possible is insane.

                    Edit: also, until you get the least bit of education, I can’t engage with you any further. You’re utterly exhausting, sorry!