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Bold of you to assume we get more free elections.
I'm so sick of people spouting this, it's defeatist and is essentially saying "i lost, oh well, time to give up."
It's more "it's time to try something else."
I don't know who else needs to hear this, but electoralism is over in the United States. These people have stopped playing by any rules.
This is in our hands now. Nobody's coming to the rescue.
Christ some of you people are so smug. The people confidently saying "we won't have any more elections" never follow it up with any inspiration or call to actions. It reeks very much of "Genocide Joe" "Both sides are the same so why even bother" "All politicians are crooks apathy that's fucked America over.
Voting was never going to solve it, voting is the absolute bare minimum you can do. "These people" wrote the rules 70 years ago, we lost the class war and it's only becoming apparent now. I don't know who needs to hear this but posting online isn't going to do anything, it's just going to leave a record for Elon to scrape when he assigns your social score.
I agree with you that it's in our hands now, nobody is coming to help us. If you're not a white christian male, now is the time, before it's too late. Get a couple guns (a long one and a short one) and learn how to use them. Learn some basic first aid, you really just need to know how to stabilize someone. Start networking with like-minded people in your communities. The police will not protect us, they’ve proven they’ll happily club senior citizens to the ground and shoot any protesters in the face with rubber bullets while escorting a rightwing murderer to safety. Their little coup was successful and if they don't want to give up power they won't.
Get to know people in your community. Take an interest in growing food, learn how to fix things. Get a gun (or two) and learn how to use them.
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I'm sorry you feel that way. I welcome your mockery if we have something resembling a normal 2026 midterm and 2028 general.
I'm a little surprised so many folks don't seem to realize we have crossed a threshold that may indeed spell the end of the US as we have known it up to now, and seem to think this was just another election. But, I guess for folks who haven't witnessed that many of our elections in their lifetime it might seem that way.
If more people did realize that, I'd have a lot more faith that we're going to be able to stop it.
I agree "folks don't seem to realize we've crossed a threshold" and seem willing to just curl up and die.
Fuck that noise.
Well, we're clearly talking about two different thresholds, but my happiness doesn't require us to agree, and yours shouldn't either.
Good day to you!
I suppose that's true, you have a great day too!
Thanks!