beautifully haunting, really.

💋🤌

bingo.

players 2 and 3 (and likely others) will be entering the game soon enough I suspect. some of them are likely to be highly trained and heavily armed. no kids on rooftops.

whatever happens, its likely to get really rough. but what the hell to I know.

edit: tfa is a depressing but worthwhile read.

absolutely. I know some of the more virulent ones. “rocket man good”

jfc

And letting a thin-skinned, Ketamine-fueled, video-game cheating, Nazi apologist billionaire take over the machinery of the United States is not something that anyone voted for.

mother jones throwin hands.

USA person here. yes - we need a corner timeout.

internet stranger - absolutely not financial advice

and thats ok. some great work has been done making the impractical practical. the article was a good think piece. it did its job.

and shit like this gets dressed up in “the right to work act” doublespeak.

it is a start. fraught with danger, but I would join an organized strike with donations and time to keep union members fed and housed. the us has a history of turning guns on protests. I am… concerned.

still slightly less painful than listening to vogon poetry.

look, the hyperspace bypass is upon us. if you happen upon the literary equivalent of a subether sense-o-matic and a digital thumb, I will have my bathrobe and towel at the ready.

but we gotta try and take everyone.

I hear ya. just not sure there is going to be a single buffet of easy, bitesized solutions :-(

short but dense article. a very useful read.

the ignorance is by design. our entire society has been programmed for consumption not critical thought - and this has been done from all sides at the behest of the corporate oligarchy.

as angry and disappointed and depressed as I am with the outcome, its a deep structural failure and I have a hard time placing the blame on those that simply decided to check out and not participate in their own civic education. every pressure on the american plebian has been to keep your head down, ignore the growing deficiencies and consume.

yup, been doing this ever since it was availabe on orbot. easy to do and helpful to the Tor network users. please consider doing it yourself. thank you, OP!

yes, yes it is. now how do we organize 15-30% of the country for meaningful direct action?

so sad that it should come to this

like others, I initially did not get your point. after following the thread, I understand what you are saying and I think the point is absolutely valid - so I am glad you did not simply drop the thread. shits really, really bad but we all need to tone down the reactionary kneejerks. the responses you got come from a place of genuine terror and confusion, so it may be useful to incorporate that understanding into the public dialogue when the arguments appear to become personal or dismissive or whatever.

you are right, the GOP has absolutely capitulated to its führer in exchange for a place at the cadaver feast; consumed in the bloodlust, they aint coming back anytime soon.

so sure, accept help from the few remaining republicans that might feel some sense of patriotic/moral obligation to the country and are willing to voice it, but they seem even more neutered than the democrats right now. I expect nothing useful from them any time soon and, until some token republican resistance manages to evade crib strangulation, we are on our own.

I wish you the very best. know that many, many, many of us consider you to be true friends and neighbors. please be there and sane should we manage to reverse this disaster. we will need you.

please, just put us out of our fucking misery. PLEASE.