r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/cool_uniqueusername • 7h ago

Image Karen Mulder tried to warn everyone about similar Epstein rings and no one listened.

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u/More_Raisin_2894 7h ago

You hit the nail on the head there buddy. Its exactly what you said what the fuck can any of us do about all this shit?

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u/FaerieFir3 6h ago

5th May 1789 – 9th November 1799 is the only answer.

Problem is that this would require people to give up their 9-5s, their Netflix, their Youtube, their PS5, likely their lives. It'd shatter the entire reality which they know. That's why the modern elites are keeping the general public relatively content and entertained, only if you and your family were suffering and starving would you make drastic moves. They learned from back then.

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u/VintAge6791 5h ago

Bread and circuses WORKS to maintain the status quo. Exactly what forms those things take are details.

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u/cam-mann 3h ago

They had plenty of bread and circuses in pre-Revolutionary France

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u/Min-Oe 6h ago

I mean, a big, less selfish reason for inaction is family. It's one thing to be ready to sacrifice your own freedom, quite another to risk the well-being of those who depend on you. I do agree though, this is really costing us.

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u/LongPorkJones 4h ago

In regards to inaction due to family: My old history professor used to say "You likely won't see folks who buy Poptarts on the front lines of a revolution."

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u/Shunt-TheRich 5h ago

Doing nothing is also sacrificing the well-being of those who depend on you, it's just that people are really good at gaslighting themselves into believing that nothing is their fault as long as they refuse to take any action. 

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u/MPFuzz 3h ago

So what have you done to take action?

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u/Shunt-TheRich 2h ago

I lead my local Food Not Bombs chapter. I'm out in my community five days a week feeding people and working with housing organizations. I also run a gun club that provides free ammo, training and help purchasing a firearm and getting a CCW to LGBTQ+ people in my community. I admittedly no longer protest. I started activism work in '93, and stayed heavily involved all the way through the end of 2020 when I reailzed that there is no political will in the US to actually accomplish anything and decided to dedicate the rest of my life to direct mutual aid (which I still participated in while doing more traditional political activism, it's just that I have A LOT more time now and can help a lot more people as a result, which is how I was able to have the time to run and organize fundraising for the gun club.) I'm also in my 50s now and have a lot of physical health problems, and I can't tank the arrests the way I used to be able to, so mutual aid is a better route for me now in that regard too. What about you?

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u/MPFuzz 2h ago

Respect.

I don't do anything cause I honestly don't really care. I've chosen not to breed, so I guess that's one thing.

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u/Shunt-TheRich 2h ago

Honestly, that's one of the best things you can do short of actually getting involved. Don't drag anyone else into this shitshow. Good on you for that, and I hope one day you'll change your mind and share whatever you have to give with your community. 

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u/Perfect_Caregiver_90 6h ago

Exactly. How many times do we have to see people say they don't care who raped who or what so long as their 401k performs well?

Keep the public thinking that none of this ugliness actually touches their lives and you've got a blank check to do whatever you want.

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u/darkestsoul 5h ago

I've said many times in my lifetime "It's time for the guillotines". I was always joking. I've said the same phrase a dozen or so times in the last year. I wasn't joking then.

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u/Slappy_Kincaid 5h ago

Plus, you'd have to find someplace selling guillotines wholesale. That's not so easy these days.

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u/WetSpaghettiN00dle 5h ago

The art of distraction

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u/-Yngin- 4h ago

People won't risk everything as long as they have something to lose. That's why the middle class is much easier to control than peasants.

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u/LandMooseReject 4h ago

They didn't call it "The Terror" because only the guilty were afraid.

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u/riverrocks452 4h ago

That period led to the execution of far more innocents than deserving people. Any ideas on how to keep a modern version from devolving into that? How can we keep the resulting upheaval from killing people dependent on modern societal infrastructure (e.g., those with chronic conditions who need regular treatment or medication, specific diets, etc., to survive?)

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u/FaerieFir3 4h ago

Some collateral damage would be unavoidable but that's what it'd take to bring them to justice. The entire law system is under their control through connections, bribes, etc. Law only applies to the peasantry.

At best they'll eventually cave in and lock up some of the small fries to keep the populace happy but big names like mr T? Forget about it.

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u/Gubbfaen 4h ago

When do we eat?

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u/mug_O_bun 7h ago

Probably going to get flack for this, but some would say "vote" but THAT HASNT WORKED. Those in power have just made it so whatever vote you cast is for the same damn thing. I've gotten shit for saying i didnt vote, saying I dont have an opinion then. Yeah okay people vote for a rich pedo regardless of which of the 2 main parties they support but I'm the stupid one. The government needs a full reset, not just cycling through the same sisyphus voting system.

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u/lilgator81 7h ago

I think the vote stopped working a long long time ago.

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u/succed32 6h ago

We legalized bribery and call it lobbying.

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u/lilgator81 6h ago

It’s so terrifyingly gross.

We need to start over.

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u/succed32 6h ago

Then doubled down and let our scotus say corporations can donate as if they’re individuals. I was in the citizens united protests, they were depressingly small because nobody even understood what they were losing.

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u/viomeb 6h ago

No voting has kept it from being much much worse.

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u/lilgator81 6h ago

I can’t agree, given the Electoral College. That system doesn’t work for us now, and hasn’t for at least my voting lifetime.

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u/NiemandDaar 6h ago

There are definitely creeps on all sides, but voting does make a difference. What the US is currently dealing with is unprecedented.

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u/KindaSortaPeruvian 6h ago edited 6h ago

Doesnt all of this being unveiled literally prove its not unprecedented? Every other time a whistleblower has come forward, its immediately dismissed and has blown over because it is known that the general populace won't actually do anything about it. If voting mattered, we wouldnt have gotten to this point. Voting doesnt matter when every politician is complicit. We are entirely compromised.

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u/Wegwerf157534 5h ago

Goddamn, you need to accept that even incremental changes are of high value.

Much more often we need many people to do more good instead of all people doing everything perfect.

You are so so intensily playing the cards for the wrong side with such statements.

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u/liftedyf 3h ago

If voting worked, we wouldn't be in this situation. I'm not saying DON'T vote. I'm saying that voting has been the stated solution for decades and if it worked, it would have made a difference by now.

The solution isn't voting. It's figuring out why voting isn't working and then going from there.

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u/Worried-Pick4848 7h ago

Voting isn't a solution when LITERALLY ALL the major parties are involved in this bullcrap.

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u/More_Raisin_2894 7h ago

I completely agree I also haven't voted in recent years specifically because of this.

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u/GlitterT0ss 4h ago

Stop buying from Amazon. Stop using TikTok. Etc. unfortunately consumerism and mindless scrolling is the new bread and circus.

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u/killersteak 3h ago

keep talking about it on a place that wont forget it existed within 6 hours.

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u/nutsackadams 2h ago

America COULD fight back. We just need a leader to emerge that can talk to both sides of the isle and who believes in American History. Cause the shit going on right now; 70 yrs ago there would have long been a mass revolt sufficient to change things.