SnotFlickerman
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This is true, I don't mean to impugn the protests, but I have met far more Americans who just want to go out and commit reckless violence instead of doing any real planning... Which is very American, I guess.
It's also why I think we will fail miserably, because we've got too many "heroes" who don't know what real heroism is.
Further, since instance owners are just a username...
If my good admin got black bagged and replaced by someone else with access to her accounts... How long would it be before I noticed? What if she was pressured or threatened with death if she didn't comply? Many ways to ruin otherwise good people.
Guys who wrote this bill probably: "The children yearn for the mines."
I'm literally an American talking about the America I live in.
Also the only real solution when it comes to a surveillance police state and massive military is mutual aid and a general strike. We have to take care of each other outside capitalist systems or we will fail. Breaking the economy and hurting them in their pocketbooks is really the only solution, and even that will invite violence. Better to have a plan and play defense than try to take on a bigger bully and lose fast and early.
Protests /= violent resistance or building parallel systems so we can all go on general strike for a month.
General strike is our non-violent option, and violence is our, well, violent option. I'd prefer the former but I see a lot more protesting and a lot less organizing of community gardens and mutual aid networks.
We're up against a modern-surveillance-enabled police state and the largest military in the world. General strike to break the economy is the better option, imho. That requires organization and planning, not protests.
It's about power. They can lie and get away with it, they can break rules and get away with it.
Everything they do should be viewed through the lens of power relations and control through power. They will say whatever is worthwhile for them to say to gain more power. That's it, that's all, that's all it's ever been. Calling them hypocrites does nothing, they love that we get mad about it. Because it means they have power over us.
To quote a rando from (retch) reddit:
There’s a russian adage about people dumbfounded by how people will baldfaced lie obvious falsehoods: They don’t lie to deceive you, they lie to INSULT you: it’s a statement “I can insult you this way and you can’t do anything about it”
This right here, the only Germans not remembered as Nazis are the ones who gave their lives or risked everything to stand for something other than Nazism. Those who hid Jews and others for their safety, who helped traffic them to safe countries, or spoke out and lost their lives for it. Everyone else is seen as a sympathizer at best.
I mean, it's easy to just see it as dick-swinging... but they have a lot of natural resources and Trump is already speed-running strip-mining the USA of every last available resource. The wealthy are just done with America and its high standards of living, they don't want to bring up the rest of the world to our standards of living, they want to drag us down to match the rest of the world.
I mean, in a way, it's fair. We're not rising up to stop it in massive droves.
While there are valid reasons for why the US struggles with that (size, atomization of population, lack of job protections and jobs tied to healthcare, surveillance state), it's still valid for other nations to see that as capitulation.
lmao what's to investigate other than what dumb pieces of shit these are?
I thought Trump could declassify things just by thinking about it? What a weak loser.
