LeadersAtWork

Been calling it since Covid. People then were turning their heads whenever some asshole walked into a building without a mask. NO ONE would say anything. I did. Stayed safe. Pissed off some idiots and am better for it.

The United States as a whole has been complicit for awhile now. Better to not start any waves. People saying they have jobs to keep, bills to pay. Don’t want to risk anything.

Now, after years of questioning I have one more:

How’s that going?

Alaska Pop (2024): 740,000

Now I’m not saying you can fit many monsters in closets and under beds…

You know what’d be absolutely priceless though?

Unless something happened it was always going to escalate. The question was ever only the cause and whether any side would meet that escalation with their own. I started asking something similar during Covid and was told people didn’t want to risk someone spitting on them. I said it again after January 6th and people replied that they didn’t want to be targets by some psycho. A year ago when this started to become clear I asked why we weren’t out on the streets reminding the DNC what we need and I got the same answer then I’ve gotten in the past: I can’t take off of work/I need to pay my bills.

So, my friends, is this enough yet?

Then that’s where we are. A bunch of do-wells talking about how to do well. That lack of action will let fascism take proper hold. I suppose we’ll see what happens. I certainly hope a leader steps up.

The only difference between a tyrant and a leader of any free people are their ideals. Their strength of character - or at least the illusion of one, their ability to subvert or gain power and influence, their control, as with many conflicts these are sides of the same coin, branches from the same tree. Trump stepped into a vacuum created through the weakness of leadership and the largely Democratic desire to maintain and their constant slow rate of change.

Right now we are fighting many small battles on many fronts. While we continue to win countless legal battles the reality is every single time this administration does something, often something they haven’t yet done, it’s to take another step towards control. History has shown that fascism is defeated every. single. time. through unity. We are NOT united. We are only maintaining the illusion of a people together. Because of this if we are to stop the advance of fascism in this country now we must be willing to step up and utilize the very powers granted throughout the years to people in power.

It’s that or a very likely death by a thousand cuts. Unless someone steps up that will have the actual majority of the citizens of this country behind them, and I am talking bigger than what Bernie had, though with the same passion behind it, I believe all these legal wins and few actual triumphs will lead to naught.

What we will do in the meantime is what another great empire across the pond did until its final days: Argue with one another as swords are run through our chests.

Except the only ones talking about overthrowing the Government in coup attempts are the MAGA, and it took years of very careful planning to dismantle enough to get this perfect storm. Use the powers that the Republicans themselves put into place and turn the tables. Then win. Fix shit after. The cruel reality of our world is that even a hero cannot save everyone. It’s bleak and black and white and sometimes even after you make all the right choices you can still end up in a losing fight.

Gotta tip those scales.

Oh no, I don’t want to encourage corrupt people to run for office. I just want the current officials to stop being pushovers and shove through the necessary litigation and other scripts necessary for change to happen. Democrats are sooooo fucking terrible when it comes to wanting to follow the rules that they will sabotage themselves before doing anything remotely heinous.

It’s time to stop trying to play bipartisan. As we are seeing very few Republicans want to cross the line for very few issues. What remains are the actual evil Maga Republicans and the rest who are too cowardly to do the right thing, even when you can see they want to do something. This leaves the Dems who now have a decision to make:

1. Continue playing for friends and pray it works, relying completely on normal opposition to become allies.

2. Play hard by holding these people in contempt and shutting them down at every opportunity and having individuals removed from offices that Trump cannot legally either vacate or place anyone in.

3. Actually band together under a single, strong, well-spoken leader that the people want. For this we have a handful of choices.

What we CANNOT keep doing is playing a normal fucking game of Football while the other side plays street level Rugby with someone’s Uncle Jorge too deep in his fifth can to referee properly.

I am specifically because Republicans have gained their ground through doing things like this. We are in our situation currently due to the gerrymandering, lies, bribes, and bullshit. Let’s happily fight fire with fire and once we win it all make it so it could never easily happen again

There are three guarantees in life:

1. Death

2. Taxes

3. A video game boycott will never succeed.

They still exist. As with many things with this administration it’s a test. The more compliance they get the more they move the posts. Resistance is a very real and very frustrating thing for them to deal with. It just doesn’t seem as if it’s doing a lot because they can continually create other issues. Illusionary posts if you will.

There is a powerful key difference nowadays, two if you broke it down into its component parts:

1. Information is much, MUCH easier to come by and because of that while hate and intolerance continues to be widespread you also see a larger number of at least partially informed people on average.

2. Hitler got most of Germany to at least openly state they were on his side in some form. The U.S. is a rather large country and hugely diverse and growing more sharply outspoken by people who were once quiet, on both sides.

I also know that Trump doesn’t have the charisma of Hitler and we are not a Nation still reeling from the economic effects of a World War.

However, that is not to say this won’t get worse. It just won’t be a blanket with pockets of resistance. More likely entire States will stand, as many already are. I just hope we the people decide to unite and do what we must before it gets worse.

Super strong likely means mass and/or density, which means more calories needed to maintain. Unless it’s some magic. Either way, that and money means you can eat until you’re happy. The only two pills I’d want out of those given.

Reminder that while these tariffs are the big news item, focus extremely hard on what isn’t being today. Work within your communities and harass the fuck out of your politicians, Republican AND Democrat. Maintenance will be the word for at least two years.

Yeah. I don’t actually remember anything they might have said though that reminds me: Do you have a good spaghetti recipe? Cause I’m somehow seeing a correlation between people being jerks and spaghetti right now.

Don’t worry, everyone else. We will actually return to the original topic in about 15 minutes.

So look, I am not trying to talk down to you or make you feel inferior. The reason I use words with WAY too many syllables tucked into precisely worded sentence structures is because my fucking brain decided it didn’t want to remember the normal damn way of saying it.

Also, our brains glitch. As in it literally feels like some wires crossed. Due to this some situations/days/hours can be torture. Please be kind.

Depends. Are we also depressed? Is there actual anxiety tied in with that flippant apparent physical lethargy? How hot is this fire?

If you want us to do something with some consistency make us feel obligated or change it enough to keep it interesting.

I’m at a stage where I wouldn’t mind a job that kills some of my love for something, like IT which I do have a passion for, in order to knock out the rest of my bills and build a safety net. One year at that rate would dismantle the remaining bills plaguing me.

Can confirm. This exact thing was on my YouTube feed yesterday. And I mean precisely as OP describes it.

RIP, my friend. I’m sorry we couldn’t pull it off in the end. Hopefully things won’t turn out as bad as we fear. It’s a small chance, though we may even exit this time of turmoil better than we were.

It isn’t that we aren’t targets, only that we aren’t currently making ourselves immediately targetable. That said, we do need to brush off our fairly minor defeatism and deal immediately with the slowly encroaching apathy. Yes, the cult idiots will get theirs as they will be a majority negatively impacted moving forward, however we do need to collectively step up constantly.

I truly believe we can make it the two years necessary to set in a rather sizable doorstop. We just need to work together on attainable goals.