Mastodawn

People: Your signs are cute but what's your plan?????? What are you going to doooooo?

BIPOC Communities: We're organizing, mobilizing, and getting ready.

People: But I don't see you doing it. What are you *doinngggggg*? What's your plan?

This is what a lot of snooty fucking lefty bros/people sound like. Like, bro, wtf are YOU doing?

Folks demanding a plan like they want to copy someone else's homework.

Fuck, *do your own homework.*

Yesterday, I listened to a tiny trabajadora describe in Spanish the work she and the other trabajadores are doing to protect each other while ICE kidnaps them and decimates their families. She asked for people to join them and help them.

THAT'S THE FUCKING PLAN.

FUCK.
Ypipo, man.

FUCK! What are you looking for? Some Project 2025-like outline for a radically different social order? No one has time for that! FUCK.

Happy Sunday.

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Patrick Oct 19

@DeliaChristina I think it is time for state governors and like minded members of Congress to form a shadow government that uses the power residing in states to build an alternate government for the next three years. States have their own taxing power, and can tax billionaires and use the money to fund their own low income medical benefits until Medicaid is fully funded. They can restrict their police from aiding ICE. And they can provide state funded assistance to noncitizens

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Violet Madder Oct 20

@patrick @DeliaChristina

This would be great, if the vast majority of them weren't already in the pockets of people building the WRONG kind of shadow government-- that is, technofascist corporate feudalism.

So we have to do it ourselves.

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Patrick

@violetmadder @DeliaChristina I don’t think we can form a shadow government by ourselves. I think we have to do it together, with a substantial number of people who already hold office. But states already have a great deal of power, including taxing authority, to compensate for Trump‘s tax structure. The Trump administration policy is to reduce the economic authority of government in relation to the authority of corporations. States can expand their own authority.