The comfortable will never rebel. No one is going to give you those things and we can’t build them without dismantling the current system. You’re going to have to get supremely uncomfortable in order to give others the possibility of having those things at some indeterminate time in the future or face a dystopian future so bleak that it will make The Hunger Games seem like a fun vacation. Either way, comfort is rapidly fading from the picture.
If you’re asking this question you should be joining their ranks. Don’t wait for someone else to protect you. Arm yourself and learn how to use it.
How is a school going to regulate what kids do outside of school property? They could ban cell phones on campus but that’s not going to change what happens after hours.
The present doesn’t exist without the past. Our current situation is just as much about the Dems failure to significantly alter the course of our country as it is the GOPs efforts to undermine democracy. One does not follow without the other.
So what were we doing for the last 50 years?
That sounds like socialist propaganda boy. Get back to greasing that engine.
Don’t hide from this. That’s only going to help them. If they’re coming for you then give them a middle finger, not a whimper.
That’s the same kinds of things they said about Obama. All you’re basing this on is your feelings. Call me when AOC or another progressive woman loses a general election.
Then kill them all
You don’t need their money. You need them not to have it. Do it enough times and whoever ends up with it will make more responsible choices with it even if nothing else changes.
What many people will take away from your comment is that we shouldn’t try because it’s going to be hard. I don’t think that’s the message you want to be sending so perhaps you should rethink your approach.
You’re not wrong, but billionaires are just as easy to kill now as they ever were. If you can’t take the money away from the planet destroying psychopath, take the planet destroying psychopath away from the money.
He acted like one once he got elected but that’s not what got him elected. His campaign was very different from his Presidency.
Clinton / Harris did not lose because they were women. They lost because they either were a neoliberal shitbag (Clinton) or could not convince people that they were not a neoliberal shitbag (Harris).
We elected a black man after years of people saying America was too racist to ever do that. There are a lot more women in America than there are black people, and it turns out that running as a progressive is pretty popular.
We don’t need to play this stupid guessing game about what genitals or skin colors will win elections. We already know the policy positions that win elections we just categorically refuse to run on them.
I mean, after the 360 they had XXXbox sitting right there and they acted like they were too good for it. Prudes.
Tbf, market indicators don’t mean shit to people with stagnant wages who have seen 20% inflation over 5 years. Of course, that doesn’t mean that Trump is going to fix anything but it’s hard to blame stupid people for not noticing those indicators when they are specifically designed to exclude the average person’s financial situation.
Musk also said he loves Trump as much as a straight man can love another man so he seems willing to say whatever bullshit he feels like he needs to say to accomplish his goal in any given moment.
I have come to understand that this is the explanation but it still doesn’t make sense in a way that I can internalize. I don’t get the mechanics of stupidity because having what I would have called average intelligence seems like such an easy bar to clear. A+B=C comes so naturally to me that I literally can’t force my brain to do anything different and yet I know people personally who obviously don’t do that at all on their own and it amazes me. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to figure out what they’re actually doing with their thoughts. All I know for sure is that logic doesn’t exist until someone else starts the process and that is baffling.
The way a stupid persons brain works is a mystery. Understanding that is my struggle even though I know that it is the answer to the original question.
It would seem that by “tyrannical government” most of us actually meant “non-whites”.
More directly, I would guess the people who are in a position to do something, like myself, would prefer not to be the only one showing up against a militarized police force and federalized national guard troops. Armed resistance isn’t widely viewed as necessary even though I would argue we’re past the point where it should have been widespread. Perhaps holding that belief and not engaging in such methods makes me a coward, I’m honestly not sure. I do know that I see a lot more sentiments like “where are the armed leftists” than I do “how do I join an armed leftist organization” and I don’t think we’re going anywhere until that changes. Everyone, myself included, is waiting on someone else to step in and stop this rather than deciding that it’s up to us to do it ourselves.