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We need to stop blaming ourselves. I'm tired of feeling like shit about this.
This isn't on us, this is 100% on lawmakers, they are the ones who should be fixing these issues. Why the fuck is this my responsibility. I'm paying them with my taxes to solve problems, not to tell me I'm the problem.
We're the ones just sitting by instead of setting them on fire for what they've done.
Many of us are just waiting for somebody else to like the first match. We don't want to be the only one out there because then we are guaranteed to go to jail. We want a mob to blend into so there's a chance we get away with it
Or just succeed. A lot of us might be alright with the repercussions if it meant positive or meaningful change. A couple dozen people going to jail just gets ignored. Billionaires heads on spikes with the 6 largest corporate HQ's burning to cinder in front of mobs of 1-2 million people....that gets change overnight.
I dunno... only 6 seems like it would be replaced in a month if not a day. It might be even more difficult than that, very sadly:-(.
Sadly how do you get that large before being taken out?
Isn't it our responsibility to fire our lawmakers if they aren't doing what we want? After correctly placing the blame, what's the next step?
We're in a sort of circular blame logic. If the lawmakers get giddy with the oligarchs and agree to run measures to lower education, then whose fault is it when people can't think enough to oust them? That shit is happening right now. This is just a new screening of ancient tactics. Its the same shit shady pastors would pull when no one else could read the word of god but them. Instead of religious texts its laws and job titles of all sorts. Now that we can all read the language has been parsed to some extreme length that bars brevity and money is equivalent to oil or some stupid shit. I'm slaving for fucking oil notes cause I need to trade the notes for bread and shelter. Fuck this place.
Nobody ever wants to say the obvious: You cant fire them. You have to topple them.
I have a pretty bleak prediction for yall. Your hands will be bloody. And you will either despise it or be damned.
Unless you let it out in microconflicts like burning cars and brawling crowds, you dont want to find out what actually awaits.
Actually... that was the thinking behind the OG MAGA movement. Ngl, but aside from the stupidity of thinking that Trump of all people would do anything even remotely like what they hoped, he was an attempt borne out of sheer desperation to have ANYONE other than "Mrs. The Establishment", "keep the status quo" Clinton. It was pretty much her campaign slogan - "things right now aren't all that bad", remember?
He even shook things up in a BIG(-LY) way! Unfortunately, it was all in the opposite direction but... still, he did move the needle, that much he did!
It reinforces in my own mind: the journey of 1000 miles does not begin with a single step, but rather with figuring out where the fuck we are now and which direction we should be heading in. Like if you are heading west 1000 miles, then instead of just start walking west, maybe go south 100 miles first, then drive east 1000 miles to get a plane so that you can handle going over the ocean that you would have encountered soon enough by simply stupidly walking or even driving. Anyway, Truth is far often more complex than Fiction, and I'm saying that we should figure out the right way to go first. Or, you know, we could ignore all of that and head down to the Texas/Mexico border with our guns, bc somehow that has become top priority too (/s, bc it's not, unless quite possibly it somehow is, like if the USA goes to civil war over that, and that is the flash point event?).
Yeah I have no clue what to do.