Become ungovernable
This effects everyone that only has Social Security as their retirement plan not to leave out Medicare. The cost of living raise is 2.5% this year and yet the prices of all the basic things any house needs have skyrocketed. If He chisels away at the programs there is no wiggle room for most people on it as it is.
They used to own tons, but sadly since the boating mishap, they’re all at scattered at the bottom of a really deep lake.
Who would have thought that bringing every single one of your legally purchased firearms onto a small boat to show them the world would be a bad idea?
Oh well, no need to look for them.
It’s just a joke about how people “don’t have any guns” because they lost them. Not stolen because they would have to report that. They’re somewhere unreachable that you technically COULD verify, but likely wouldn’t unless there’s a very specific (usually requiring a warrant to get people to move) reason.
So “boating accident” is to goto joke accident. Nobody would actually believe you if you said that to a cop, judge, or courtroom.
Bunny joined the SRA and local socialist/communist party/org
be more like bunny!
We could have voted it away. And it would have been way easier than the alternatives. But we chose not to.
But since we didn’t organize to vote it away, I’m not sure how we’re going to organize a general strike. And anything else is so difficult and so messy and has very little guarantee of improving anyone’s conditions.
general strike.
Oh you sweet, summer child…
We could have voted it away.
Don’t forget gerrymandering and other fraudulent methods of deciding victory like the electoral college being baked in this diseased system.
They only give the illusion of choice.
How does enabling a fascist help us on this path?
Are you responding to the wrong person? Who’s talking about enabling fascists?
How does not voting and allowing a fascist to win allow us to dismantle the system?
Who the hell said to not vote? I’m saying it’s not the cure for this diseased system that we need to dismantle and rebuild. Vote on that 1 day, then organize with like-minded people to enact some real change every other day.
Please don’t twist my words.
When you reply to someone talking about people sitting out to vote with excuses for them
Never said anything remotely close. I’m just pointing out that it’s not going to fix anything in a system designed to subjugate and oppress the peasants. It’s just evil vs slightly less evil, every time.
Emphasis on, vote on that 1 single day, but work to do something that will have actual impact for the rest of the 4 years of your (until further notice) free time until the next sham election, or hopefully, a new, fair system is born of revolution.
We could have voted it away.
Lmfao, news flash: it’s already here, has been for a while.
Never in history has tyranny ever been voted away. To think otherwise you must completely misunderstand what tyranny and fascism are.
Hear hear…
I’m in the UK and we have the same situation + monarchy, for added funsies. I keep thinking people are getting enough of a glimpse behind the curtain at the fact that the system wasn’t designed to serve them, but to centralise power in the hands of very few people who exploit the rest to continuously strengthen their own power, but part of those efforts are the propaganda, and it just goes to show how well it works that despite so much ugly truth being revealed over and over, some people still see “my team vs your team” as the only way to exist. It’s both sad and very scary.
Hey neighbour.
And no, as an anarchist, I’m not a member of any party.
Sick I attend a local anarchist group called radical learning based in devon.
Solidarity comrade.
Solidarity!
I just looked up that group, I’m assuming this is it? I’ve only skimmed the page and will give it a good read in a bit, but that’s really fucking cool, I wish I wasn’t hundreds of miles away lol but it’s always good to see leftists organising in this country! I’m in the process of moving, not sure exactly where to yet, but once that’s happened I’m hoping to find some anarchist and communist folks locally to wherever I am, having that kind of community is so valuable.
Looks interesting but no not that group, we’re based on signal and WhatsApp and do weekly meeting to organise around local issue as well as global. Its more of an active social. Currently we have plans for a Stop reform demo as theyre coming to Exeter on Saturday and end of the month a counter demo countering a fascist demo.
If you end up in the devon area let me know and I will have you added to our group but if not then good luck I hope you find a good space and do some revolutionary stuff ✊
Oh wow, wild miss there… 😂 but your group sounds even more like my kind if thing tbf… I hope the counter demo goes well, stay safe, and smash some fash.
I don’t think I’ll end up down south again, but I will try and remember this conversation (I’ve saved it!) and potentially check back to see if you’d know of any local connections wherever it might be or have any advice for finding comrades. I have a lot of my own shit to try and get together, but I really hope that this move whenever it eventually happens will be an opportunity to really build a good local support and affinity network.
I’m still feeling bitter and a fast food place last night asked me to tip, so it got me thinking that maybe this is the time to push out tipping culture. If the country wants the party of “fuck you, I got mine”, then fight your own battles for your wage.
Legally, if they don’t make minimum wage through tips then the employer has to make up the difference (in practice this likely doesn’t happen). Maybe it will make them care more about the minimum wage if it affects them.
I can see where you’re coming from in theory, but if we rely on employers to treat employees fairly we’ll be waiting a long time (they’re already demonstrating that they would rather ignore the law and potentially face a minor fine, than pay the minimum wage), and the only ones who will suffer will be the sub-minimum wage employees who now aren’t getting that tip either.
You make people care by building solidarity with them, not by using them as a bargaining chip.
So your solution is to starve those already struggling, instead of support them and together taking the fight directly to the employer, or even better, to the political establishment?
That’s a really gross and privileged take. Do the people in your vicinity a favour and don’t eat out, they don’t deserve to have to wait on someone who would rather see them starve before offering any support or even solidarity.
That is fighting with the employer. Tipping is what the employers want. That’s why my idea of “disobeying” was that this is when the movement to end US tipping culture makes sense. Europe has restaurants and they don’t have a tipping culture.
I don’t get why if I don’t tip that I’m the one starving the employee, and not the employer.
Also do these other things… Read a few books on guerrilla warfare and tactics.
Learn to sew
Learn to operate a radio
Grow your own food
Generate your own power
Fascists government are going to target your comfort and communication in order to enforce compliance.
I still have hope that we will have a democracy in 4 years.
This is what people, both libs and “teach the dems” non-voters don’t seem to be getting: that’s not how facism works. Even if it were the case, at minimum, the courts are captured for the rest of anyone currently living’s life. That’s done.
Too bad this took thirty fucking years to figure out.
Cali and New York have fucked themselves too deep with gun control laws that only affect poor people (Luigi Mangione is a wealthy tech bro who can afford to buy a 3D printer and time off from working to hunt and kill a CEO).
A retired cop can legally buy the latest Gen 5 Glock any day he wants for life, but for anyone else that wants to do the same can go fuck themselves and stuck with shitty Gen 3 ones that are prone to misfiring and not ergonomic to safely operate, according to California laws for example. Why? Why the fuck does a retired cop get more rights than you? They are just a regular person like you. Fuck these laws written and voted by ignorant scared dipshits.
Everyone’s fantasy of armed and organized leftist resistance would’ve been a lot easier to do without right-wing extremists in control of the federal government.
If you are organizing publicly online, they aren’t going to just sit back, they are going to come for you.
This is going to be a repeat of iran in '79. Leftists will be wiped out.
“We can’t just vote fascism away”
Well, if you’d voted for Harris we could have, but have fun doing it you way, especially now that the military will be standing by to kill your asses on sight.
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