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Ugh, yes, mass picketing (unless/until everything has entirely broken down) I don’t see as a US possibility. As you said, those with the stratigic positions don’t seem interested. Way more of the country has people working in restaurants, fast food, retail, call centers, all kinds of “essential” but severely underpaid work. Factory labor being replaced by prison labor, folks terrified of losing their healthcare, because it’s tied to your employer, losing their homes as most are 1 paycheck away from homelessness.

It’s been decades in the making to remove our abilities to feel enabled to fight back. So many accepted for so long the “We’re the best!” while distracted with their sports and shiny baubles with their decreasing free time for thinking and learning and real socializing.

I will take all sparks of hope. I will believe that more than one pair of people will meet, and have ideas ignited that could bring energy and spirit back to fight against the growing tyranny.

I am often called a pessimist, I always say realist. HOPE for the best, even better than expected! Plan for the worst, it’s often inevitable.

• Have not read, I’ve bookmarked it but I am going back to school at an old age and have much reading material to slog through in my off hours now. Have not gotten much enjoyment reading in, in quite awhile. …Unless you count my breaks reading memes… is that reading?

From the blurb, I feel I am familiar with material related. I remember being very young in Sunday school and being taught the whole “turn the other cheek” and forgiveness unconditionally, and the confusion when I asked “no matter how many times?” - I had gotten “picked” on a lot, real early (I now know the word nuerodivergent, didn’t exist then or at least there). They were adamant, everytime, all the time. Then their disgust and horror when I said that “was stupid. That won’t make them stop.” …Babbling about riches in heaven, heathens in hell or some shit, as they removed me so we could “have a talk with my parents”. …With suuuch a far spread, fast (or I’m old and everything just seems fast anymore?) soo far right, I’ll fight the liberals again once the fascist are squashed back in their stank hole.

Most people are dumb, at least half of 'em out there (why I referred to the Carlin quote earlier) and, are not on lemmy.

Anyone knowing things doesn’t help those who are dumb or just ignorant and sheltered learn them. They don’t even know to go seek the information, they accept what they are given.

There are a LOT of rural areas in the US, a lot of home schooled kids who never leave the towns they were raised in. Those younger folks, at or near adulthood, could actually be revolutionized with knowledge provided. Going to town to grab stuff not available at the local seed-n-feed, SEEing crowds of local people gathered in protest could cause a couple to finally think a thought. That could start a wonderful chain reaction.

I grew up in a sheltered “Christian” nowhere town. Information is HARD to come by out there in those places, anything/everything quickly demonized, and from perspective there, very popularly by everyone. It is a very weird distorted feeling coming out of, and getting to a level of actual reality. The brain resists. Having the internet available doesn’t even help anymore, every side has “proof” the other sides are producing “fake news!” and the masses are funneled into their social echo chambers.

I just don’t think bringing folks down for at least attempting to do something positive and en masse is going to inspire any further actions.

Media, and much social media, paints the picture that “anti-trump” is a minority view. For people in small social circles it may be very reassuring to be able to SEE that their neighbors aren’t all maggat supporters, could even be encouraging and hopefully inspiring to now want to do more.

Think of the average person you know. Half the world is dumber than they are. - badly quoted George Carlin

Wait. So you are doing nothing yourself and in fact, aren’t even in the country of the people you are derriding for not doing enough?

Well this seems like a great way for all these folks to be able to safely meet up in public and and spread their information on their local organizations and coordinate goals.

And I wasn’t going to make a sign that says that but not the worst idea.

Oh fucking hell I hate this thing.

I am going back to school through work. I didn’t have this bullshit in my younger days. It’s made me drop my honors courses due to an asinine endless loop of hell.

Whatever X percent matches as plagiarism. Professor says Y% is calculated for, for template formatting, etc. Still have some highlights of 3-4 words here and there, starting or ending paragraphs, “describe “blah”” answers that no matter how you re-word them something highlights. OK. Get creative with wording and phrasing, rewrite again.

Now I’m pinged as using AI to do my writing. What?! Asshat prof basically has to side teach me where to check for this, school doesn’t have a tool. Fucker, I am old and can write faster than some chatbot. They’ve prob been trained on my whole generations writings.

Anyway. If I cleared the plagiarism, I failed the AI writing check. If I corrected my paper and cleared the AI check, I failed the plagiarism again. Fuck Turnitin.

I am going to! I have taken the risk and starting sharing all the wonderful things I find here. If my family doesn’t like it, well, I guess I now know them better. They can always block me and make get togethers awkward.

I was raised “born again christian” and had the Bible shoved down my throat my entire growing life. Those family members last voted for Trump. My turn to shove morality down their throats. I have been thinking that when we gather for the holidays this year that I am going to sit them all down for the “I’m concerned for you and the state of your soul” talk they all loved giving anytime I made any personal choices while growing up.

I have also been sharing things to troll different hate groups on there. …Is trolling bad when it’s done to pedophile worshiping fascist biggots?