Man Just Waiting Tables Until Fundamental Structure Of U.S. Economy Changes
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theonion.comPosted Sep 15, 2016, 5:46 PM UTC
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Isn't it great when you think, "God I hope this is the Onion." And it turns out to be the Onion! And then you keep reading and you can't even tell if it's satire because it touches on so many real issues...
I can't win, and apparently that's pretty normal.
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The Onion is on point more often than not about some real life shit.
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As much as it is satire this is what most of us are actually doing. That said the more the word is spread the more people are slowly starting to realize we need actual action on the ground. The longer it goes the more I get encouraged to get some people together and actually try to be heard.
Nothing violent. It sets the precedent for failure.
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Nothing violent. It sets the precedent for failure
They will meet all significant nonviolent protest with violence and oppression.
Are you one of these "leftists" that also support stricter gun control?
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Are you one of these "leftists" that also support stricter gun control?
You mean the kind that realises the pro-gun circlejerk kills more people (almost all of them working class) every year than even cops do? Or the kind that realises no revolution was ever won through up-front superior firepower and that guns don't do anything against tanks or bombs?
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Do yourself a favor and read up about how the black panthers combated police brutality.
It was through use of the second amendment and being allowed to open carry. Since then laws have been enacted preventing gun ownership for nonviolent felons(war on drugs), and a shift away from open carry and into concealed carry therefor preventing minorities and oppressed classes from displaying their power. The civil rights movement never would have happened without blacks making use of the second amendment.
If you really gave a shit about the exploited classes, you would support arming them, especially legally.
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Do yourself a favor and read up about how the black panthers combated police brutality.
The police force wasn't even remotely close to being as militarized as they are today. All you get from loose gun regulations are more working class people killing each other on the streets. Your guns are worthless against tanks, jets, missiles and drones. Stop with this video game apocalypse movie bullshit.
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Are you saying that my band of overweight, middle-aged white guys with a few semi-automatic rifles CAN'T fight unmanned drones equipped with infrared night vision and lethal ordinance that can strike from so far away that I will never know it's in the sky?
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I'm saying at the very least you should push for laws that enable working class to open carry. Why do you think police have a gun strapped to their waist? It is a display of power and privilege.
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Hooray, let's give up.
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The tanks and bombs are going to come out anyway if capitalist power is every seriously challenged.
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Gun control is such a weird thing. I live in Australia, heavy gun regulations where imposed about 20 years ago and gun related violence has diminish to almost nothing. This is fine in times of peace, but in extreme times it does mean we have no means of defense against our own government.
I swing more towards less gun control but there is no one truly correct side. There are benefits and disadvantages to both.
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Every leftist needs to be armed and promote arming the working class and oppressed minorities.
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True. I'm not against violence as a solution but it really has to be a last resort. It will be in defense.
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I'll agree to that when every leftist is already armed with membership in a serious, anti-sectarian nationwide revolutionary organization as well extensive practical experience with street-level local organizing and mass, disciplined nonviolent action.
We're not even within shouting distance of that threshold.
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Do you honestly think people with rifles will stand a chance against tanks and drones hitting you from 20,000 feet?
Look at the likes of the Czechs when they pissed off the USSR. The Czechs had tanks and aircraft but the USSR flattened them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Pact_invasion_of_Czechoslovakia
The USA, if faced with a rebellion would do far worse I suspect. The cops there are already out of control by the looks of things and yet no one is rising up against them, despite all the guns being there.
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I guess we should give up and not even try. Fantastic idea.
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Just from reading the titles, I can't tell any more which posts in this subreddit are from Onion and which are not.
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it's satire but it's not.