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I wonder why he always brings his toddler kid to public gatherings...

"But if I lick boot hard enough maybe one day I'll get to be an owner and control them!"

"Elon Didn't Kill Himself"

That's why we need to stop relying on idols and figureheads. I dont even necessarily think we need to organize, but to act as individuals capable of operating independently from central leadership. Most of us have the same goal, after all. It's just most of us are still too comfortable or afraid to do anything, and that's because we invested too much in leaders or orgs that we watch get assassinated and destroyed. But they can't get all of us, especially if we act independently, and soon.

Nothings gonna happen to that kid. This is the classic Israeli "We will conduct an investigation" response with zero follow through. They do this to get away with genocide, i'm sure they'll be able to get away with a "misinterpreted hand gesture."

Is Elon so mad that he wasn't in the game Cyberpunk 2077 but Grimes was, and wants to spitefully create his own Night City and Arasaka tower in real life to have his little fantasy?

Isn't this sorta how the Corporate Wars started in the Cyberpunk universe?

NRA? You mean the gun organization funded by the Russians? No doubt the Russians would want to keep an open flow of weapons to militias and extremist groups, like America did to the Middle East. Not only is it an effective way to destabilize things, but it creates a channel for arms dealers/manufacturers to make a fortune from the proxy-war hellscape that the country will descend into. What happened to the Middle East from circa 1970-present is what's about to happen to the United States... From a model society to a bombed out ruins sprawling with militants.

But hey, at least a few people stand to profit. Not like Americans can't see this coming and still have the ability to stop it...

I get it, mostly along the lines of the fact that the time for joking about this is over. It's really not funny anymore, and I didn't mean to offend or discourage. I just wish there was a big enough fire lit under more Americans rearends before the social security payments stop and yeah, I don't want to think about what that means right now.

I have worked with the EFF, the CSE (which does incredible and essential work in the US south), I have helped LGBT Americans stuck in the gulf south in ways that I cannot legally discuss, I have worked with abortion funds both raising money and drumming up support, and I have been in the vicinity of stun grenades more than once. My camera has seen a lot and raised a lot of money/volunteers for orgs. I am proud of my work, as you should be of yours.

We have both done good work. We have both tried to make the world a better place.

Ah, I see you are someone doing something! Well now I know you're not just another lethargic devil, yes there are tons of people trying to do good work but there's tons more work need to be done. We both not only need to keep up what we're doing but we need to do even more. People like us have our work cut out for us at a time like this.

You started this conversation shitting on all US citizens because of what’s happening. There are tons of us trying to fight it, but you used your experience and wisdom and keyboard to attack all of us in one fell swoop. To discourage people.

Seeing as my first post was an acknowledgment to someone elses post (who doesn't seem to be getting the same pushback from you as I am for some reason?) I don't think I started it. And when did I ever say "ALL Americans"? It says "Americans," like, plural for American, as in there are Americans who are sitting there watching Trump tear apart their country and are doing nothing about it. That's not to disparage the work being done over there, ffs I personally know a lot of Americans who are doing far more than the both of us combined! ::Gestures broadly at the situation:: It's still not enough though.

But I get it man, you're fucking pissed off and anxious as you rightfully should be, I am too. Anyone who isn't scared right now is fucking stupid. Maybe this'll cheer you up - I recently (sorta) reconnected with an old friend, a really good friend of mine from back in the day who I still talk to on and off. His whole life and the whole time I knew him he was the last person in the world to care about politics, classic normie American catholic who loves his baseball and fantasy sports, keg parties no shirt on the whole nine yards. He's still very much that guy, but even he is becoming politically conscious and is starting to ask the right questions. If there's anyone that needs to be reached it's that complacent majority type like him, and they're being reached my dude. Hearing him talk like that gave me an internal supernova of hope.

I'm still waiting to hear what they've done to combat injustice in their home today. Or even yesterday for that matter.

EDIT - They responded, they're a G.