That’s because they were authoritarian, not socialist. Just like the Nazis called themselves socialist, despite being obviously authoritarian. Same way that American fascists love to co-opt and redefine words like “liberty, freedom, grooming,” etc.
Your pub may be older, but don’t pretend your house is in order. Your culture is being manipulated, exploited, and ruined the same ways as ours, and by the same class of elitist psychopaths. Frankly, appealing to the fact that your society has several centuries on ours gives you even less of an excuse.
These are exactly the times when such people rise. Support one. Be one.
Kat Abugazaleh just ran one of the best campaigns in American history. She did it with hardly any connections or personal wealth. She started up a mutual aid office. She changed the narrative. She was beaten only by a concerted effort by AIPAC. She set a model for how ordinary people can push change. Graham Plattner is attempting to do the same in Maine. He also has a pretty good shot.
Look, if you don’t like the idea, it ain’t for you. I was just trying to encourage you by throwing whatever ideas against the wall to see what sticks.
It’s more useful to avoid doing things to make high value targets. Power must be democratized, not centralized and concentrated. Make too many low value targets to be worth destroying, and your nation will be all the better for it.
That’s a real person? I don’t know… wait is that the one guy who never showers and has roaches crawling on him?
They can colonize the sea. 200 miles out ought to do.
Things seem to be changing around that sort of thing. And I wasn’t suggesting high office. Like, any office. But I also suggested working for a campaign, getting behind someone decent who might run in your area.
Have you considered running for office, or working for someone who is?
Agreed. Right now I’m just trying to keep this one person alive though.
Electrolysis is extremely energy intensive. While it’s possible, it isn’t anywhere near as scalable or efficient as electric trains or busses, which can simply be powered directly from the grid. No need for expensive hydrogen or rare, toxic, and politically tenuous elements for batteries.
What is the source of green hydrogen?
Trouble is, ain’t nobody gonna listen to anybody talking like that.
There’s always tomorrow.
You’re pretending that America can’t be turned into a place with similarities to N. Korea, when the wealthy and powerful are clearly trying to steer us that direction. Yes, it’s perfectly valid to draw such comparisons, especially when we are using them as a warning for ourselves.
The only action of yours we can see is your attempt to discourage others who are in fact doing something. Put up or shut up.
First step is just to outlive Trump. You want to live long enough to see that worthless piece of shit in the ground. It shouldn’t take too long. Then pick the next piece of shit to outlive. Spite is useful.
What’s wrong with assassinating the wealthy and powerful?
What happens to powerful individuals in nature? They face young upstarts who take them down and destroy them. Life goes on.
Everyone dies. It does not matter one iota how the wealthy and powerful die. They will. Society moves on. Their lives are of no lasting importance. Nobody needs them.
So the wealthy and powerful don’t want to be killed early? Then they should stop clawing for limitless wealth and power. They don’t want the people they’ve oppressed to murder them? Don’t oppress regular people. If you don’t want wealthy powerful people to be assassinated, pass and enforce laws outlawing the hoarding of wealth and power.
You don’t like it? Too bad. People like that need killing.
What happens in America tomorrow if we refuse to say the pledge?
It’s a hint in his mind. He doesn’t know subtle.
Good lord. Because the dollar exists, and people in other countries are free to reference it without changing their numerical punctuation standards. Other languages have their own spellings for America too, and in their own alphabets. They don’t have to switch things up for us.
Don’t worry, the American dollar won’t be the de facto global currency much longer, so this kind of thing will just fade away. Of course, that means we will have to learn new systems.
Nah, it’s way easier to send a satellite to take a look.
It’s impossible to secretly launch enough payloads to build a moonbase in the first place. Every launch has to pass through low earth orbit and rockets are shiny. There are too many eyes on the sky to go unnoticed. Even then, there’d be radio chatter between the Earth and Moon, and satellite redirection from the far side. You can encrypt radio signals, but they can’t hide.