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Those who believe that this call to action is an overstatement of the threat understand neither the nature of the tyrant-in-chief nor the slow but inexorable nature of how democracies are lost. I witnessed Trump’s cruelty and lack of empathy as I dealt with him during the Covid pandemic, as he willfully withheld help and then consciously spread misinformation that caused so many needless deaths. Anyone who saw this up close would make the call for resistance I am making today. How can anyone not understand that the refusal to follow the law on January 6 continues in full force today? Why would it stop unless it is made to stop?
Interesting to see how more American politicians are choosing to publish in The Guardian. And by “interesting,” I mean “pretty damn alarming.”
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A large portion of this country is one paycheck away from being homeless. A hospital bill can sink a family nowadays. I can imagine it being very difficult for these people to get involved— which is EXACTLY what the oligarchy wants. They want us poor and nearly destitute, unable to risk missing work…
I’ve been homeless for 18 months. I have hospital bills I’m simply ignoring.
You know what happens? You stop wanting work. I’m not going back to subsistence wages after usurious housing and utility costs that meant while I was making my boss ten times my salary, I couldn’t afford a car, and then I couldn’t afford housing.
Show me a job that fairly compensates me and isn’t a bunch of bullshit where it’s unlikely the job even exists, and I’ll re-engage. Until then? “Missing work” is not a concern. I never had kids, so my decisions affect no one else.
That’s why they want everyone having kids! It’s not about a larger labour force (we’ll outsource that, anyway); it’s not about having more conscripts for the armed forces; it’s simply about making people feel trapped. And if you think that’s a life, you do you.
I do not. And I refuse to play this game any longer.
I often wonder if I lost all those around me if I would end up going down a similar route. I think there’s more to life than slaving away for someone else’s profits. We only have one life. We might as well enjoy it.
I’d not say I’m living my best life.
The us is not sleeping. Folks have not quit their jobs to go protest but were I am at we have local groups and everyone is attending protests as often as they can. Some are babysitting so several other families can protest. We are calling and emailing our congressmen. I have not seen this large and often of action in my lifetime.
The influential people in opposition like Democratic party members or liberal news networks are fighting back, but only legally. I recall there being a reddit propaganda campaign by democrats where they would post weekly “what have we done” reports, having their angry public speeches against the current administration posted, there’s also been lawsuits targeting the illegal acts and lots of media coverage all around calling Trump a big dummy. However, if you have been following the news, you might have noticed that the current administration doesn’t really concern itself with legalities all that much, making the legal, liberal ways of fighting back pretty much toothless even if it does feel good in the moment.
After all, why try to mobilize/rally people to resist outside the legal, lawful means? Anything outside litigation, speeches and peaceful protests is immoral, and resistance via outside (possibly illegal) means would likely jeopardize their cushy lifestyles.
Though, this is irrelevant, and it’s time to stop pretending that reactionary forces and people like Trump & Musk fell out of the sky and decided to start dismantling liberal democracies out of nowhere.
Thanks to working classes being deliberately weakened by both major political parties (both economically and in organizational sense), red scare, prevalence of neoliberalism, further division of the workers via things like party loyalty and culture wars, no education reforms and the liberal overlords being insanely out of touch (recall Kamala’s response to egg prices), reactionaries have been able to get more and more ground. This was a long time coming, and today’s ‘supposed saviors that are doing nothing’ were instrumental in allowing this reactionary sentiment to fester into what it is now, and despite what lots of people here believe, just getting rid of Trump & Musk is far from enough even if it would feel good.
Too true. Trump didn’t come from nowhere; the genocide of the native americans, the ethnic cleansing of black communities, jim crow, the zoot suit riots, etc are all proof of that.
And yeah, the democratic party talks a good game, but where were they when that train derailed and ruined the water in East Palestine, Ohio? Where were they during the subsequent negotiations with the railway workers who were just asking for basic necessities – which Biden denied to them. Why did the Democratic party reduce Covid leave to just 5 days, when it takes at least a week or more to fully recover? Why did they remove the masking mandate when infections are still happening and disabling people?
They are all servants of the capitalists. The oligarchs need to go. A lot more than that needs to happen honestly, but at least the oligarchs need to go.
those in middle america suckling the fox news
teetteat are completely oblivious to the negative aspects of donald trump. this is a huge volume of the voting population isolated and brainwashed.how do you combat that?
That’s ultimately the question. We can get rid of Trump at some point (and by “we,” I mean the Grim Reaper most likely, the way things are going), but how do you deprogram the decades of misinformation that installed him in the first and second place?
I’m not an academic – though that’s apparently of about as much use as being a journalist these days – so I’m not really qualified to answer that. I suspect it would take MAGA hats having their lives become completely unaffordable to effect any demonstrable change. Ignoring the Constitution clearly isn’t having enough of an impact.
Right now if their lives were to become completely unaffordable they would blame “libs”, trans people and non-whites. Fascism tends to become more popular when times are tough, not less. So it’s hard to see the way through this except through some kind of violent conflict, or a depression so long and harsh that it becomes impossible to pretend the current government isn’t responsible. But that would also give this regime time to consolidate its power.
How fucking stupid do you have to be to blame your woes on those less fortunate?
Yep, my life is shit because the androgynous bagger at HEB has tattoos and a septum piercing. Has nothing to do with government policies, nor corporate greed.
Stupid enough to vote for a ‘joe the plumber’ loving populist notorious for stiffing his contractors.
Paying bills is for the poors.
all of this is true of any party or group that supports this sort of capitalist imperialism since it’s inherent contradictions perpetually lead to making life unpleasant and, so, that requires a new social welfare state like fdr’s new deal to come along every few decades sap the popular strength for overhauling the system and to keep the cluster fuck going for the rich.
Unfortunately, what it’s likely going to take, just as it has with past civilizations, is complete collapse.
Our descendants will hopefully build something better in the rubble we leave behind.
Past civilizations show us rebuilding generally takes centuries (Germany did not suffer complete collapse in the '40s – think more Rome, Egypt and China), and they didn’t have power grids and datacenters to worry about. Whatever descendants remain will be trying to do this in the hottest climate humans have experienced, which complicates matters.
I’m not seeing anything reputable that suggests we aren’t on track for at least 3.5C above preindustrial, given feedback loops we’re already seeing. The horses are out, and we’re arguing about the finer engineering points of barn doors.
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thank you!
for starters, deport immigrant oligarchs
If you’re talking about Musk, he’s been a naturalized US citizen for over 20 years, so should we be deporting citizens or not?
ok just the oligarchs then, independent of their citizenship
We just elected The System Destroyer 9000 to office. Why is the system not saving us?!
Americans are too comfortable
Oh, yeah. Living in a van and shitting in a bucket is the height of luxury.
Their comment stands. Too many Americans remain too comfortable, at least for now. The standard of living in some ways might be declining, but it’s happening at a sufficiently slow pace that it is tolerated. And, so far, the bread and circus is compensating
The people who are too comfortable pulled the ladders up behind them.
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Shit take.
Cell phonesAn internet connection and a device to connect to it are a basic requirement for life in the US nowadays.The funnier things are twofold:
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I’m not typing this on my phone. I hate phones for anything beyond making calls.
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You can use a really nice kitchen knife to kill someone. You can also prepare dinner. The hardware is not the important thing; the usage is.
That is a good point. I should have said an internet connection and a device to connect to it. But yeah, what a wild thing for them to say after you just gave your current situation
And especially the existence of places like the library where you can use a computer for free, makes it even wilder.
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I (once upon a time, not anymore) chose that life voluntarily, so I wouldn’t compare myself to those that are forced to live like that, but I always enjoyed digging a little hole, shitting in that, then closing it up again. IMHO sufficiently clean and respectful. But of course it only works if there’s ground to be dug, and shelter from prying eyes.
