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Re:Facebook shuts down the Socialist Workers Party in Britain by nexthash on Friday January 22, 2021 @09:41PM (#25879039)
I am an American, and I don't feel like my will is being controlled... It is important to understand that everybody has a unique life situation and makes their own choices. Elon Musk hasn't been able to implant Neuralinks in our heads yet. I think the rebuke of Donald Trump in swing states like Georgia really shows that any attempt by an established group to clutch onto power is always going to be a gamble. It took the collective will of the people and real grassroots effort to overcome the obstacles elites put up there.
Re:Facebook shuts down the Socialist Workers Party in Britain by bluSCALE4 on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @03:18PM (#25920565)
What I mean is that things are really out of our control. The government decided to move manufacturing out and there was nothing we were able to do about it. Colleges decided to raise their prices to obscene levels and there was really nothing we could do about it. The banks did whatever they wanted, we bailed them out and we really didn't have any say in the matter. The healthcare industry keeps charging us the highest prices in the world and we do nothing about it. The list goes on and on.
Re:Facebook shuts down the Socialist Workers Party in Britain by mbg721 on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @03:24PM (#25920614)
Trump's only real selling point was "I'm not the establishment". People rejected him for all kinds of reasons, but "disrupt the entrenched power" wasn't one of them.