• Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      4 months ago

      The problem is the top is captured and has been for a very long time. The difference now is it’s mask-off and has lost the capacity to pretend to be public serving.

      As the history of labor has shown us, it is very hard to organize bottom-up without leadership getting compromised or killed.

      • ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        4 months ago

        Before it was kings and queens. Haves have been shitting on have nots since the beginning of time. Our system doesn’t work.

        A silver lining is that balkanizing into technostates means that reform should be easier on a small scale than it is in a gigantic country.

        Edit: maybe there is no silver lining since North Korea has not made much progress on the humanitarian front. I wish we had something to lool forward to though.