EventFrontier
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
Daftydux@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

If what they taught us about checks and balances was a lie maybe what they taught us about civil disobedience was a lie too.

message-square
message-square
126
fedilink
590
message-square

If what they taught us about checks and balances was a lie maybe what they taught us about civil disobedience was a lie too.

Daftydux@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago
message-square
126
fedilink
  • squaresinger@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    21
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    2 days ago

    So basically what the climate protesters are doing.

    • peoplebeproblems@midwest.social
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      17
      ·
      2 days ago

      YES! As my aunt would tell me: if you aren’t getting arrested, you aren’t making an impact.

    • FerretyFever0@fedia.io
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      12
      arrow-down
      3
      ·
      2 days ago

      Ehhhh… they’re more so just being a bit… annoying once in a while. They make the cause look bad sometimes. Throwing soup on a van Gogh just looks a little dumb.

      • squaresinger@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        10
        ·
        2 days ago

        Because only the annoying parts get put into oligarch-controlled media.

      • BaroqueInMind@piefed.social
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        arrow-down
        9
        ·
        2 days ago

        Removed by mod

        • krashmo@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          4
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          2 days ago

          You could buy a gun and do it yourself. Why does it need to be someone else’s job to do it for you?

          • BaroqueInMind@piefed.social
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            arrow-down
            4
            ·
            2 days ago

            Problem is I’m not a climate protestor and don’t give a shit about the climate because I’m barely able to afford rent. What’s stopping you from doing it?

            • krashmo@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              6
              ·
              2 days ago

              I’m not a climate protestor and don’t give a shit about the climate

              Then why are you complaining that climate activism is ineffective?

              • BaroqueInMind@piefed.social
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                1
                arrow-down
                2
                ·
                2 days ago

                Because it’s been protested my entire life since I was a child and nothing has been done about it, so I’ve given up hope.

        • null@lemmy.nullspace.lol
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          2 days ago

          Why do you wish that?

    • yucandu@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      2 days ago

      The only way you are hearing about protesters on privately owned media is if those billionaires want you to hear about them.

Showerthoughts@lemmy.world

showerthoughts@lemmy.world

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: [email protected]

A “Showerthought” is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you’re doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

  • Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
  • When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
  • More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else

Rules

  1. All posts must be showerthoughts
  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
  3. No politics
    • If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as “capitalism” and “communism”. If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
    • A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. Adhere to Lemmy’s Code of Conduct and the TOS

If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.

Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.

Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 943 users / day
  • 3.7K users / week
  • 6.35K users / month
  • 18.1K users / 6 months
  • 1 local subscriber
  • 36.9K subscribers
  • 1.61K Posts
  • 36.2K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • vatlark@lemmy.world
  • forkball@lemmy.world
  • Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world
  • SuperEars@lemmy.world
  • BE: 0.19.8
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org