Sounds like you're on board for the revolution right away, but it is legitimate to ask if we can fix the problems of this Supreme Court within the system we currently exist in.
I'm not sure whether some of these powers are executive or congressional, but past presidents have talked about adding more justices to the court, and I've also heard mention of removing lifetime appointments. I think the first is an executive power and the second is congressional? I'm also not sure how this specific situation can be dealt with now that the ruling has been made, but it sure seems like this court is disregarding precedence left and right... Sorry, I'm not a legal scholar, but I'm also interested in the answer to this question.
When you can no longer afford to buy things, including furniture, at stores, thrifting as a habit become an errand. Not one that takes long enough to meet up with a friend, I agree, but it is a slightly different headspace than going shopping.
Fucking scabs, I feel a similar sense of disappointment that I felt talking to women who said they didn't vote for Kamala Harris or Hillary Clinton because their voices were too shrill.
I had a similar feeling of overwhelm when I heard how many kitchen sponges have been found with fecal matter contamination. I've since switched to Swedish dishcloths and hope to never touch a sponge again in my life.
I got really excited about the Pirate Party in Iceland a few years ago. I'm not sure what happened to them (it's hard to get news from other countrues sometimes) but one of their big initiatives was a crowd-sourced constitution. It was the first time I'd thought about something like that being really possible, and I think that if it weren't for the one percent of the population who are megalomaniacs, the internet could be truly democratizing.
In the meantime, sign a strike card on the completely decentralized https://www.generalstrikeus.com/, which is also a pretty exciting notion to me. Sadly, I'm now considering what leaders might float to the top if we ever do reach 3.5% of the population... Decentralized organizing does not mean decentralized leadership. Hm, i'll have to think about that more.
I'm not surprised it feels that way in a liberal city, but we elsewhere in the United States really do look at numbers from your large protests as a litmus of general disatisfaction and willingness to act. People are still taking about the collective size of the first round of protests that happened.
Anyway, I went last Saturday and handed out tiny flyers with info on the gen strike. That felt productive.
It does seem like the number of non-violent options are dwindling. I really meant that I wish we'd had strong labor unions for the last several decades, as I don't think we would be in quite the same mess as we are.
We are getting to a point of no return... or at least a return that would be very, very difficult to achieve. But it's all done in a very calculated way to make you feel like everything is going fine if you're not directly affected. It's fine if the Supreme Court approves of these power grabs, right? And, how can I pay attention when there's so much going on, right? But Trump is demonizing groups of people as enemies, defying constitutional rights, and making power grabs never before seen from the executive branch in this country. It's only been a few months and it keeps getting worse.
Oh gosh, I just think regional variation in language is really cool, and while I've heard 'God forbid' a lot in my life, I've never heard the phrase OP used. Turns out it was auto-correct, which I half-suspected, but I would have loved to have known where that had come from. If you're interested in this kind of thing, I highly recommend the talk show "A Way with Words." The hosts get really nerdily excited about just these kinds of phrases, so given that I listened to that program regularly, I'm kind of on the lookout.
Is this also because I'm an atheist living in the South? Possibly. 'God forgot' shows some lack of divine omnipotence, which I find kind of exciting.
Sign a strike card, baby https://generalstrikeus.com/ we've got a long way to go but I've been handing out flyers on the street... Spread the decentralized jeezus-i-wish-we-had-labor-unions word. Please. No really... I'm begging.
No, I think she's focused.