George is not the sensible one
he had his moments
I feel overwhelmed a lot lately.
I think one of the causes for the situation in the U.S. is isolation. Both that the bad actors are too isolated from their fellow human, and that people of good will feel alone in facing rising assholedom.
It’s helped me to physically go to gatherings of people who are like minded. To be reminded that you’re not alone. We’ll never get everyone on our side, but I believe we can get enough.
Yes.
The rich used to take the same transport as the rest of us. They could be in a separate car on the train but they were still attached. Then they got automobiles and could drive on their own and we built highways to connect their favorite places. But can only get so far and planes were invented. Now they are stuck with the poors again but up in first class.
Now they have private jets and all the roads full of the regular people, the trains and the planes. They remote in or call in from their cellphone instead of being in the actual office.
The wealthy dont live like the rest of us anymore. And their social group is much more carefully curated to not let us in. They dont want to know regular people.
How do you find these in person gatherings, most of my socialization with other Americans happens through work and I cannot be my authentic self at work because that has negative consequences in my experience, the American work culture is kind depressing, where everyone seems to be in some rat race to be the most busy and most productive or at least pretend to be so, most of my interactions lack human warmth and it all feels fake and performative, I have to be guarded about what I say so that it doesn’t come back to bite me even with colleague’s of the same level and I am tired of the expectations of overwork and constant threat of being laid off of the right people don’t have a high opinion of you.
For me I’ve been involved in an anti gerrymandering group, which definitely fulfills the “like-minded” category. But there’s still value just in connecting with people outside work even if it’s not ideological, so things like classes, hobbies, casual sports/exercise, anything that has regular meetings.
Many organizations - like churches and NGOs - offer some kind of organized approach to do community projects, like feeding people, repairing houses and things (especially for a single mother household that has fallen on hard times?), so you could join one of those?
If such is not done in your area, then all the more reason to start something on your own! 😉 (Or else find a new area)
You may not be able to stop the idiocy, but you can stop the feeling of isolation. Get out there and connect with political groups that are working against fascism.
went to my first protest this decade for labor day! met some really interesting folks and found a couple local groups i’m gonna meet up with later this week. can’t really recommend this enough
I see pedo Zionist meme I downvote
to quote jreg, “these people have physical bodies”
Make an app that tracks them … it seems to bother them. They dont seem to care if companies spy on us, so spy on them. Im sure nothing bad could happen just from an app that shows the physical location of a politician, CEO, or billionaire.
Make an app
I’ve seen this Rick & Morty episode.
Watch the world burn.
i dont think george constanza said that on the show…
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Sign a strike card, baby https://generalstrikeus.com/ we’ve got a long way to go but I’ve been handing out flyers on the street… Spread the decentralized jeezus-i-wish-we-had-labor-unions word. Please. No really… I’m begging.
Labor unions are good, but they’re not the be-all end-all of wbat we need; they’re a moderate compromise measure. A good one, but if it atarts getting too bloody or hard to take a necessary internediate goal because the state deployed all its violence and disinformation, well… The state has already deployed all its violence and disinformation.
It does seem like the number of non-violent options are dwindling. I really meant that I wish we’d had strong labor unions for the last several decades, as I don’t think we would be in quite the same mess as we are.
If an action works, it will be defined as violence. There’s a point to playing the theatrics of an action, and most things are not best accomplished by shootin’ dudes en masse, but our opponents have taken nonviolence off the table, and pretending otherwise is masochist or suicidal.
Vote.
Voting feels unsatisfying and the message telling people to just vote, have fallen on a lot of deafened-by-despair ears.
The last three election cycles have had the highest turnout of voters in American history, so the problem isn’t a lack of voting. The problem is that the people doing the voting have had their brains melted out their ears by having to work 7 days a week, being hooked on scrolling mindless content, and a news cycle that is completely owned by commercial/political interests boosting the most loud and distracting issues on both sides of the political divide to worsen it.
Don’t stop voting, but if you are really looking to be involved in a way that does some good, one of the best things you can do is hold a yard sale.
It sounds weird, but if you have a house or driveway that supports it, just have a weekend yard sale. You may make a couple bucks and get rid of some junk, but more importantly, you meet your neighbors. You meet the people on your street and hear what’s on their minds. It gives you good exposure training for being more social.
Get to know your community and exchange contact info so you can have each others backs. Start forming community, which people value more than political ideology. People adopt political ideology just for the sense of community. If we all worked harder to get connected and connect people, we would have fewer people latching onto incel forums or pseudo-science fads.
You can learn from your community what the local issues are, who’s in charge of what, who’s running for what seat… maybe it’s unchallenged? Maybe your area needs better options for representation? It doesn’t have to be you, but you can possibly find someone to promote and help represent you and your community.
If we ALL did this, we would kick the fucking legs out from under this oligarchy that has hijacked our democratic process.
Organize.
Voting is doing the bare minimum.
And protest-non-voting is actively punching yourself in the face.
I’m right there with you. For all of you that say to just wait this out — how many of these am I supposed to wait out?! I’ve been doing this since Reagan, and it’s only gotten worse.
Insert (I’m tired boss) meme.
I just want out at this point.
Not too many more; you’ll either die in the camps here, or, after a couple brief decades of the living envying the dead, the planet will no longer support life, and you will necessarily die.
This is the refreshing optimism I come here for. Finally someone talking sense!
There is an alternative, but it is jnfortunately against the rules. So either die in the camps, or kill yourself (on a planetary scale)
Personally im very lazy, hoping i end up in the camps.
Yeah! A coward dies a thousand deaths, and with climate change, those who survive fascism, if we dont depose the billionaires, will surely add some zeroes.
Me in my 40s, who’s been feeling this way since my teens:
It’s not a competition, and if it is, it’s not one anyone should want to win
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Relevant username?
Such a shame we cant mention it here.
Or at least a necessary step in it,
I mean, you could mention it. You could probably mention it easier if people would stop using .world as the default for everything, but you can mention it.
I think it’s a little too quick to be thought of as THE SOLUTION. Everyone seems to have absorbed just a teeny bit of the action hero mentality though, because that action will never be cleanly carried out. It will be a massive shit show for decades.* Every martin luther king jr. needs their malcolm x, sure, I absolutely believe that viewpoint, but the peaceful community advocating and community building needs to be emphasized and practiced (that’s the important bit, after all) more.
*There are far too many folks (in the US part of the “clowns of the world” mentioned) that are literally next door to the people that they will want to go after, and they’ve been itching to do it. Nothing that breaks the peace will see inaction from those folks, and that’s what pushes me to always advocate. I don’t want to be the cause of innocents suddenly being lynched because they happen to live in a deep red area and some sort of ‘civil war 2: electric boogaloo’ breaks out… And I use that electric boogaloo specifically because it is a pretty stark reminder (I hope), that those sorts of folks have been literally talking about what they have wanted to do for decades at this point. Unless the lefties break out some secret plans, they’re going to be out-organized and very out-planned.
“Step in it”? Present tense? Nah. Past tense. Way past tense.
I’ll step in you! (Sorry if thats too forward)
No thanks 😜
The first step is to organize, start a local community group and exercise your combined people power.
This ain’t funny.
