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What can I do? Shit posting hasn't helped.
Depends on how much you you value you freedom/life, cuz the things that need to be done could put both in jeopardy. Leave your cell phone at home.
Post harder?
Post through the pain
Look for protests to join. Call email call your reps. There's got to be a way to sue, but i don't know anything about that route.
If all fails there's a funny amendment in the constitution literally for a situation exactly like this.
A lot of what is being done right now violates the Constituent. That doesn't matter unless someone enforces it, which is not happening. Congress should be responding, but the Republican majority are either in favor of the takeover or too afraid to oppose it. The courts have been helping some, but the Supreme Court (and many of the lower courts) have been taken over by people who support this.
Unless some congressional Republicans grow a conscience or a spine, there isn't anyone at the federal level who will defend the Constitution.
I think you missed which constitutional amendment they were referring to
My reps voicemails are completely full and they don’t reply to email. It’s a farce.
Send a letter, while the USPS is still around.
Send a postcard. A lot more letters just get tossed instead of opened because of security risks.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/
What Lenin did was far worse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago
We aren't going to fix Traitorapist Trump's enshitification by using Lenin's far worse enshitification of Russia as a guide.
why are you linking me to obvious us propaganda? lenin oversaw one of the biggest and quickest jumps in quality of life for people in history.
if you are that intent on rejecting socialism, i don't know what to tell you. we never properly defeated fascism without it.
Why should anybody believe you when you have to use an easily disproven lie the very first thing you said because there is no legitimate way to explain the horrors of what happened in the USSR? The author was a Soviet citizen who never set foot in the USA until after his entire 3 volume series was published. He had collected a lot of material because he was a 7 year victim of Stalin's Gulag.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn
[Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn[a][b] ⓘ (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008)[6][7] was a Russian author and Soviet dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system. He was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature".[8] His non-fiction work The Gulag Archipelago "amounted to a head-on challenge to the Soviet state" and sold tens of millions of copies.[9]]
Khrushchev himself personally approved of Solzhenitsyn's previous book about Stalin's Gulag. Was the leader of the USSR also peddling "obvious US propaganda"? LMFAO.............
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/the-prophet-and-the-commissars-2008-08
The author shows over and over in his book that the roots of Stalinism go right back to Lenin.
[Solzhenitsyn painstakingly laid the theoretical, legal, and practical origins of the Gulag system at Lenin's feet, not Stalin's.]
How is randomly arresting people in places like train stations and libraries in order to fulfill a police arrest quota from the top dictator a "jump in quality of life" LMFAO! Lenin and his party started the biggest enshitification of any country in history. Who the f*ck would ever want to live in a country where such as things as arrest quotas of random people exist? You would literally be risking your life every time you left your apartment.
still quoting literal US propaganda. you have to break free from it if you want any chance of doing anything about your fascism.
the advances in healthcare education and overall well being in all metrics for people living in that time are a historical fact.
stalinism doesn't even exist lmao, please actually study some history instead of scanning wikipedia for anti-communist sentiment.
there are plenty of valid criticism you could muster about the soviet union without showing how ignorant you actually are about it.
but then again, if you and most other us people did, history wouldnt be repeating in your backyard.
I'm quoting literally Russian sources. You responding that 2+2=5 doesn't help you at all. Even if there is a rare person who doesn't already know that 2+2=4, they can easily look it up. In addition, since you are someone who is obviously anti-American, why would any American listen to you about American politics? We know that you have no interest in helping Americans, and what Stalin and Lenin would think about something is completely irrelevant to us. Russians lost the Cold War because Lenin and Stalin massively enshitified it after stealing control from the people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn
[Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn[a][b] ⓘ (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008)[6][7] was a RUSSIAN author and SOVIET dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system. He was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature “for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature”.[8] His non-fiction work The Gulag Archipelago “amounted to a head-on challenge to the Soviet state” and sold tens of millions of copies.[9]]
Yes I really don't get why you chose to make yourself an irrelevant fossil. There is plenty of reasonable critiques of capitalism you could make without defending the USSR which was every bit as bad as Nazi Germany. You defending Lenin and Stalin is going to be rightly viewed exactly the same as another guy coming here and defending Hitler. If you are socialist, the smartest thing you can do is to do everything you can to distance yourself from Lenin and Stalin. The world has already seen what their version of "socialism" looks like and it is absolutely horrible. In order to taken seriously, you would need to make it very clear that your view of socialism has absolutely nothing in common with Lenin and Stalin.
Solzhenitsyn wrote about 2000 pages on the Lenin/Stalin Gulag.
https://archive.org/details/TheGulagArchipelago-Threevolumes/The-Gulag-Archipelago__vol1__I-II__Solzhenitsyn/
you are literally quoting a russian defector. the cia has already declassified it paid plenty of these to smear the soviet union, especially around stalins time.
have you actually read the book you keep pasting here?