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Alaska Pop (2024): 740,000

Now I’m not saying you can fit many monsters in closets and under beds…

You know what’d be absolutely priceless though?

Unless something happened it was always going to escalate. The question was ever only the cause and whether any side would meet that escalation with their own. I started asking something similar during Covid and was told people didn’t want to risk someone spitting on them. I said it again after January 6th and people replied that they didn’t want to be targets by some psycho. A year ago when this started to become clear I asked why we weren’t out on the streets reminding the DNC what we need and I got the same answer then I’ve gotten in the past: I can’t take off of work/I need to pay my bills.

So, my friends, is this enough yet?

Then that’s where we are. A bunch of do-wells talking about how to do well. That lack of action will let fascism take proper hold. I suppose we’ll see what happens. I certainly hope a leader steps up.

The only difference between a tyrant and a leader of any free people are their ideals. Their strength of character - or at least the illusion of one, their ability to subvert or gain power and influence, their control, as with many conflicts these are sides of the same coin, branches from the same tree. Trump stepped into a vacuum created through the weakness of leadership and the largely Democratic desire to maintain and their constant slow rate of change.

Right now we are fighting many small battles on many fronts. While we continue to win countless legal battles the reality is every single time this administration does something, often something they haven’t yet done, it’s to take another step towards control. History has shown that fascism is defeated every. single. time. through unity. We are NOT united. We are only maintaining the illusion of a people together. Because of this if we are to stop the advance of fascism in this country now we must be willing to step up and utilize the very powers granted throughout the years to people in power.

It’s that or a very likely death by a thousand cuts. Unless someone steps up that will have the actual majority of the citizens of this country behind them, and I am talking bigger than what Bernie had, though with the same passion behind it, I believe all these legal wins and few actual triumphs will lead to naught.

What we will do in the meantime is what another great empire across the pond did until its final days: Argue with one another as swords are run through our chests.

Except the only ones talking about overthrowing the Government in coup attempts are the MAGA, and it took years of very careful planning to dismantle enough to get this perfect storm. Use the powers that the Republicans themselves put into place and turn the tables. Then win. Fix shit after. The cruel reality of our world is that even a hero cannot save everyone. It’s bleak and black and white and sometimes even after you make all the right choices you can still end up in a losing fight.

Gotta tip those scales.

Oh no, I don’t want to encourage corrupt people to run for office. I just want the current officials to stop being pushovers and shove through the necessary litigation and other scripts necessary for change to happen. Democrats are sooooo fucking terrible when it comes to wanting to follow the rules that they will sabotage themselves before doing anything remotely heinous.

It’s time to stop trying to play bipartisan. As we are seeing very few Republicans want to cross the line for very few issues. What remains are the actual evil Maga Republicans and the rest who are too cowardly to do the right thing, even when you can see they want to do something. This leaves the Dems who now have a decision to make:

1. Continue playing for friends and pray it works, relying completely on normal opposition to become allies.

2. Play hard by holding these people in contempt and shutting them down at every opportunity and having individuals removed from offices that Trump cannot legally either vacate or place anyone in.

3. Actually band together under a single, strong, well-spoken leader that the people want. For this we have a handful of choices.

What we CANNOT keep doing is playing a normal fucking game of Football while the other side plays street level Rugby with someone’s Uncle Jorge too deep in his fifth can to referee properly.

I am specifically because Republicans have gained their ground through doing things like this. We are in our situation currently due to the gerrymandering, lies, bribes, and bullshit. Let’s happily fight fire with fire and once we win it all make it so it could never easily happen again

There are three guarantees in life:

1. Death

2. Taxes

3. A video game boycott will never succeed.

They still exist. As with many things with this administration it’s a test. The more compliance they get the more they move the posts. Resistance is a very real and very frustrating thing for them to deal with. It just doesn’t seem as if it’s doing a lot because they can continually create other issues. Illusionary posts if you will.

There is a powerful key difference nowadays, two if you broke it down into its component parts:

1. Information is much, MUCH easier to come by and because of that while hate and intolerance continues to be widespread you also see a larger number of at least partially informed people on average.

2. Hitler got most of Germany to at least openly state they were on his side in some form. The U.S. is a rather large country and hugely diverse and growing more sharply outspoken by people who were once quiet, on both sides.

I also know that Trump doesn’t have the charisma of Hitler and we are not a Nation still reeling from the economic effects of a World War.

However, that is not to say this won’t get worse. It just won’t be a blanket with pockets of resistance. More likely entire States will stand, as many already are. I just hope we the people decide to unite and do what we must before it gets worse.

Reminder that while these tariffs are the big news item, focus extremely hard on what isn’t being today. Work within your communities and harass the fuck out of your politicians, Republican AND Democrat. Maintenance will be the word for at least two years.

I don’t feel it’ll go anywhere either. Flip side is always whether people are having fun. People having fun rarely complain meaningfully. Meaaaning money still flows.

Obfuscation. Corporate figures telling or giving people the option will hurt their feelings so they’ll stop playing. A player who quits is no longer a tier two type with the potential to spend money, so they’ll only do this if it becomes a PR nightmare that affects their bottom line.

It isn’t that we aren’t targets, only that we aren’t currently making ourselves immediately targetable. That said, we do need to brush off our fairly minor defeatism and deal immediately with the slowly encroaching apathy. Yes, the cult idiots will get theirs as they will be a majority negatively impacted moving forward, however we do need to collectively step up constantly.

I truly believe we can make it the two years necessary to set in a rather sizable doorstop. We just need to work together on attainable goals.

They fall in line when they have a common, reachable enemy. As another user recently said, which I believe was wise. - paraphrased: The only reason they’re fighting is because we haven’t made ourselves a target.

Oh no need to have organized protests. I believe we all have agreed that we’re well past time where that will have any significant impact. Besides, it’s the age of information! Fight back in ways our Republican friends won’t understand.

Feel free to do a bit of rabble rousing yourselves as well!

The rules are simple:

1. If a large corporation wants you to do something, you probably don’t want to do that thing.

2. If a Republican is pointing fingers and shouting blame, they are the ones doing it.

Thinly veiled. Trump will claim the shut down is a recess.

Shit is gonna read like an SCP article.