Sound advice, but it requires there be "live players" (in Samo Burja's terms) activating and coordinating the resistance who can take that advice. I see no such thing in the US, only an army of armchair activists complaining on Bluesky in their job breaks, while the country sleepwalks into autocracy.
Have you been to a protest? Have you seen them? Many of them were gigantic - with millions across the country. I'd hardly call those armchair activists.
It's a great reminder of the imperative that we continue to Rise! Resist! ✊✊✊
The next nationwide NoKings rally is Saturday, October 18. Be there or be square!
We need 3.5% of the population, or around 12,000,000 people to be present. So bring all your friends and families. Spread the word as far and wide as possible. Let's all get out there with a Howard Beale spirit and yell "We're as mad as hell, and we're not gonna take it anymore!".
The ‘process of persuasion’ is saturated with compelling myth-like narrative forms, too. Trump intuitively works on this. So far, it is matching up more or less with Thiel & Co’s ‘lord of the rings’ understanding of themselves and the world.
True, but he's not "persuading" anyone who wasn't already in the fold. He just exploited what was already there. And quite a few of them are starting to break away. Not the hardcore MAGAnuts - they're lost for all time - but those who've always been on the cult fringes are having second and third thoughts about it.
Never give up hope - that's what Trumpkopf wants us to do. Let's not give him an easy victory.
What I advocate is that we coordinate around new system-wide policies rather than simply defending the post World War II status quo.
We should launch an national effort to commercialize fusion, for example. And we should set up a vetting system for refugees seeking to take residency in the U.S., a vetting system somewhat like a parole system in our courts but designed specifically for immigration...and then open the gates to those who want to come and subject themselves to that monitoring. Also, we should provide free tuition to all who want post-secondary education and then recapture the cost of that expense by putting extra percentage increases on the income tax of any who take advantage of this free tuition (in which government funds are paid directly to the schools and universities, not to the individuals).
Finally, the opposition to the Trump administration and its enablers should make huge celebrations together at national holidays, showing the country how satisfying (and fun) it can be to cooperate in opposition to this administration but not in opposition to the country as a whole.
Sound advice, but it requires there be "live players" (in Samo Burja's terms) activating and coordinating the resistance who can take that advice. I see no such thing in the US, only an army of armchair activists complaining on Bluesky in their job breaks, while the country sleepwalks into autocracy.
Have you been to a protest? Have you seen them? Many of them were gigantic - with millions across the country. I'd hardly call those armchair activists.
It's a great reminder of the imperative that we continue to Rise! Resist! ✊✊✊
The next nationwide NoKings rally is Saturday, October 18. Be there or be square!
We need 3.5% of the population, or around 12,000,000 people to be present. So bring all your friends and families. Spread the word as far and wide as possible. Let's all get out there with a Howard Beale spirit and yell "We're as mad as hell, and we're not gonna take it anymore!".
https://www.nokings.org/
The ‘process of persuasion’ is saturated with compelling myth-like narrative forms, too. Trump intuitively works on this. So far, it is matching up more or less with Thiel & Co’s ‘lord of the rings’ understanding of themselves and the world.
True, but he's not "persuading" anyone who wasn't already in the fold. He just exploited what was already there. And quite a few of them are starting to break away. Not the hardcore MAGAnuts - they're lost for all time - but those who've always been on the cult fringes are having second and third thoughts about it.
Never give up hope - that's what Trumpkopf wants us to do. Let's not give him an easy victory.
Excellent! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
This is important analysis.
What I advocate is that we coordinate around new system-wide policies rather than simply defending the post World War II status quo.
We should launch an national effort to commercialize fusion, for example. And we should set up a vetting system for refugees seeking to take residency in the U.S., a vetting system somewhat like a parole system in our courts but designed specifically for immigration...and then open the gates to those who want to come and subject themselves to that monitoring. Also, we should provide free tuition to all who want post-secondary education and then recapture the cost of that expense by putting extra percentage increases on the income tax of any who take advantage of this free tuition (in which government funds are paid directly to the schools and universities, not to the individuals).
Finally, the opposition to the Trump administration and its enablers should make huge celebrations together at national holidays, showing the country how satisfying (and fun) it can be to cooperate in opposition to this administration but not in opposition to the country as a whole.
I agree with much of this, but first, foremost and above all other things, we need to ditch the TrumPox regime.
Excellent.
For our President a bite in the ass would be a very serious wound.
IDK, he has such an ample rump he might not notice a small bite. Now if the whole thing gets bitten off, that might be another story. He'd feel that.
Wow, you're so right. Priority #1 is to get rid of The Orange Scourge and his regime. Everything else can wait till later.