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by RSMDZ 963 days ago
Let this be a reminder for us all to Pokemon GO to the polls to vote for Police reform
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That's not going to be on my ballot anytime soon
Just out of curiosity, and it may sound random, but does &T mean anything to you?
Haha yeah. I posted on totse from 2003 til the end and then moved to zoklet until that shut down too.
Let this be a reminder that our avenues for change in the world are artificially limited. Due to that, we must not wait for some allowed moment to ask for change, but demand it every day.
> Due to that, we must not wait for some allowed moment to ask for change, but demand it every day.

Sadly we're mostly wage slaves in the US and so while we might like to spend all day every day standing outside of the police department shouting or marching in protest we'd quickly lose our jobs, our homes, and perhaps die from the lack of employer provided insurance that makes the medications we need to survive barely affordable.

The system is rigged very well to prevent meaningful sustained protest by keeping us chained to our work for 40+ hours a week, keeping us eating and surrounded by poison to make us sick, and by only giving most people enough money to get by paycheck to paycheck. We're allowed to accumulate debt to keep ourselves entertained though so that when we're too tired to protest from overwork we can still sit in front of large TV screens while we stare at our tiny phones designed to keep us distracted and disconnected from the people around us.

Our best bet is to wait for those brief moments when we're allowed to cast a vote for someone else who doesn't represent our interests.

Or you know, organize and spread class consciousness and ultimately revolt
there are enough homeless in LA that we could probably pay them to act as proxy protestors (https://www.proxyprotest.com/) while we sit at our desks making money for the boss.