• delgato@sh.itjust.works
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    8 hours ago

    I don’t know what I can personally do to make effective change, but what I have done since the inauguration is to let my close friends know I’m there for them since I can’t be the only one who feels defeated.

    In the past I’ve hung hundreds fliers in the street for other causes, and I might do that again. It’s old school, gets people attention, and gets me out into the street and maybe interact with people.

    Any ideas for an eye-catching poster? I was thinking “OUR DEMOCRACY IS DYING, WHAT CAN WE DO?”

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    13 hours ago

    Nader is the first I’ve read who says what I’ve been thinking: when does the killing begin?

    That will seem like an extreme statement to some, but a campaign of terror is absolutely coming.

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      Not extreme at all. Fucking Trumpies stormed the capitol over conspiracy theories - why aren’t we doing the same for our rights and freedoms?

      Guillotine the motherfuckers.

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        Because since we believe in reality, and we’re not in a cult, it’s a lot harder to get us organized for anything.

        It’s why cults are so fucking dangerous in a democracy. How do you even fight people who refuse to compromise or accept reality?

        I mean, how many COVID deniers denied it up to their literal last breath? Plenty.

        We have skepticism and stepping back for self-reflection and considering other options. They have what their God Trump tells them, and that’s it.

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          the reality IS that they will come for you if you don’t strike first. you people need to understand how wars work.

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            Hey, lots of us understand, that doesn’t make it any easier to organize other people.

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      Technically the killing has already begun, but the deaths probably are incidental to Musk randomly turning off shit.

      That’s still structural murder.

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      I mean, it either starts because nobody in power is listening or because people have already been stripped of what they’re afraid to lose.

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    Musk’s poisoned Tusks have even reached Laos, Cambodia, and parts of Vietnam where mine-clearing efforts have been cut off.

    Did… Did Ralph Nader just pull a fucking Rick & Morty reference? He was “Elon Tusk” on his appearance on the show.

    We live in the most fucking bonkers ass timeline.

    Who writes this reality, Bobcat Goldwaith?