I'm paying attention. And I don't know what to do. Protesting has done nothing.
this post was submitted on 21 Mar 2025
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Bring more people to the protests. Don't stop now.
Thank you for the encouragement. That is actually needed, and thank you.
Also, buy a gun at your local gun store. Do some open carry, exercise your rights. Make them know that they can give in peacefully, or otherways
Wwld?
I have been but a majority of Americans have their heads up their asses
I'm also paying attention to what happens to the judges.
And their families that are getting doxxed by government officials
And billionaires that are not government officials but rather unelected bullshitters hanging around el presidente.
That's the problem ... American isn't paying attention ... they haven't been paying attention for 40 years
Or they have been paying attention to the wrong thing for years. Imagine if your country allowed a right wing propaganda media arm to masquerade as "news" for 40 years.
Bro the average American is more plugged in and detached from reality than Neo was back when he was just Thomas Anderson. They don't even know reality is out there.
We fully entered the realm of the hyperreal, a world where simulations of reality seem more real than reality itself. Our digital representations of reality have more influence over us than our actual material conditions...at least until we can no longer afford to eat or have a home.
The Century of the Self documentary is a great introduction to how we got here.
Basically, PR was always about controlling people and never about advertising. Bernays, the father of PR, even says his intentions were to rehabilitate the concept of propaganda, because the general public had begun to see it as a dirty word following WWI.
That was an absolutely amazing detailed explanation of how we got here ... everyone everywhere should watch it just to see how and why our current world works the way it does.
The Cigarette Century goes into an aspect of this, and how easily the public were manipulated into consuming cigarettes en masse. And the echoes of the same tactics that are used today.
Where I think this is gonna end up is that one of the J6ers will take matters into his own hands and off one of these judges.... And F-47 will just pardon the guy. That's your Constitutional Crisis.
Hey now, the Felon-47 fighter plane hasn't done anything yet
I was going to correct you, but yeah I have no doubt it's the next felon model for the Russians too
They need round-the-clock community driven monitoring and protection.
Might as well get started catching the fascists in the act.
Let me know when a judge puts the orange man or the rat in jail or prison. When they start doing their job, I will care about them.
Nice mobile site, ABCNews.
\facepalm
Also pay attention to the arc of Argentina over the last few years.
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Crazy, right wing politian, sold out Argentina to privitize. Stocks went up at first, but was soon met with out of control inflation. Now he has to cancel diplomatic trips abroad to deal with the dumpster fire he stoked back home.