• Nougat@fedia.io
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    7 days ago

    Outright revolt will not work right now. There needs to be a much greater groundswell of support for that first. This is a marathon, not a sprint.

    It’s going to be a loooong time before a proper revolution happens, even if that’s not out of the question. In the meantime, as many people as possible should !resist@fedia.io, in as many small ways as possible.

    There’s plenty of preparing and learning that can be done in the meantime. I always recommend pepper spray for everyone. Always have your camera at the ready. Build relationships with like-minded people near and far. Get in a mindset of paying close attention to the world around you, seeking creative opportunities, and figuring out your own risk threshold.

    A lot of people are scared right now, for good reason. Seek to support the vulnerable, and to give pause to those who threaten them.

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      6 days ago

      Thoughts and prayers with no actual advice or directions. The marathon is over, and we lost. But yeah, but pepper spray, because that works against guns.

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        6 days ago

        Not revolting before you are sure you have the proper support to succed IS the actual advice. They are just waiting for something like this to happen as a pretense to suspend existing law and take total control. So you have exactly one chance. Use it wisely.

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          6 days ago

          Zero chance. All the left leaders are gone. Americans are too self-centered. Half of the country wants this anyway.

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            6 days ago

            Only a quarter of the country actively voted for this.

            And among those, I’d bet only a small portion actually understood what they were voting for. There are a lot of unthinking voters who only vote R because that’s what their entire family has always done.

            That said, I still put a lot of blame on the apathetic idiots who couldn’t be bothered to get off their ass to vote at all.

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            The worse thi gs get and the more people start directly feeling the impacts, the more support you will se for taking action

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          6 days ago

          I did. I think you spelled it wrong.

          Edit: never mind, it’s just empty for me on Voyager, browser has content