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Feral Finster's avatar

Culture wars and wedge issues are perfect to distract humans from the issues that the Empire actually cares about, keeping the plutocrats happy and keeping the wars well stoked.

There are those humans who are content with this, if humanity goes up in a mushroom cloud, or if they all disappear into a global totalitarian dystopia resembling 1984, or just an oligarchy resembling Brazil under the Colonels but without the more pleasant aspects, at least we have pronouns.

PRONOUNS, humans! PRONOUNS!

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"Draw attention to how disgusting what they’re doing is. Draw attention to how deeply evil this behavior is."

This is what everyone needs to do 24/7, 365 days a year. I do it, and I get comments like, "You're so negative," or "Aren't you being judgmental?" But it's amazing that pointing out the evil does start to sink in little by little. The next time you meet that person you pointed out how inhumane and evil endless wars for oil are, don't be surprised if they casually mention something like, "They're just raising prices because these greedy bastards can't stop their endless wars." You do get through to their subconscious with your repetitiveness of pointing out reality. They won't know it, but they'll have begun seeing the evil, disgusting things going on in the world all on their own. And maybe they'll come to a point where they'll want to change things, too, and join in your protest, direct action or open act of rebellion. One more fighting against the corrupt system. And then they'll make another one...and another one... and so on and so on.

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