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Malcolm J McKinney's avatar

"Silence is complicity. Inaction is acceptance. It doesn’t matter how much you may have done before, no one is handing out merit badges. This is the moment when the rubber meets the road."

So I will restack with this quote.

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Margot Potter's avatar

Thank you! ❤️

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bobbie cottrill's avatar

I will....

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bobbie cottrill's avatar

I'm at a loss for words, you are so right...Thank you! I have been writing and calling and I get no good answers or no answers at all. I think the people in congress and anyone else who could help are just sitting on their hands watching the shit build up. Cheeto and Melon Husk and the rest of the clowns 🤡 need to be arrested and put behind bars.........

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Rachel Bruner's avatar

We are all feeling shell shocked and traumatized. We knew this was coming with CheesePuff and the F-ELON Husk. No one was prepared for how quickly they would move. Meanwhile, Congress, also shell shocked and traumatized, is still trying to play by the rules.

We shouldn’t be too surprised by the orange behavior ~ January 6th was their dress rehearsal for 2025.

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Margot Potter's avatar

Exactly, it is a collective trauma response. Anyone who read Project 2025 knew much of this was coming, as it is all in there. We have to find a way through the exhaustion and fight for the future.

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Margot Potter's avatar

Keep fighting the good fight, Bobbie. It matters!

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Margot Potter's avatar

Algorithms are a PITA. It seems like the one here is getting more restrictive and selective over time. Blerk.

I am also not able to do much physical in the streets protesting because of my lungs, but there are other ways to resist and persist. Social media blackouts (for folks who still can't bring themselves to leave social media), general work or retail or other strikes, targeted boycotts. I am somewhat concerned they're waiting to turn a protest into a pivot point by manufacturing an incident and declaring Martial Law. Massive protests would be necessary if that happened to overwhelm the system. There are hundreds of millions of people here in the US.

If the folks with the money who are happy to profiteer while supporting this misadministration start feeling the pressure of the people refusing to participate in their capitalist free for all, that would have real impact. Target is feeling it as is 'Tesler.' If no one is supporting their companies through purchases or using their services or remaining available for their data mining and microtargeting...if we take our data and our power back, things will shift. We are the product but we are also the consumer, and that does give us advantages. They can't force us to consume their digital toxicity.

Art can also be a powerful form of resistance, I still like the idea of some kind of found object art project like the butterflies I talked about a while back with simple messaging. If things get weird, the people have to get creative. I honestly believe art can save the world.

There are many, many ways to toss sand in the gears.

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