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OldBaldy1701E

(10,145 posts)
22. This is exactly half of what is required to get through to the right people.
Fri May 23, 2025, 10:25 AM
May 2025

They will only listen when we threaten their income with no way to tide themselves over through a normal strike or walkout. If we can hold firm and make sure that they cannot man anything beyond immediate family, as well as cut off demand and ability to replenish materials, most will crumble quickly. The rest are not actual holders of wealth as much as they are holders of documentation (and belief) that says they are wealthy. That part of the system will crumble soon after.

The other half is that we also need to create a network that is ready to help those who are desperate as they, in turn, threaten our lives and families with their control of almost every aspect of our existence. (Which, we let them do, especially when the subject is the urban areas.) They will try to starve us out, cut off access, remove power, as well as remove our ability to find healthcare by out-pricing it beyond our incomes. We need to be ready for this. The elderly, the young, and infirm are going to be especially vulnerable. We need to be ready for this. We can be, if we drop the desire for compensation above all else.

If we can get ready for both a general strike as well as having the means to survive their reprisals, they will crumble like a house of cards. They are only where they are because of our belief in their superiority, which mostly comes from them anyway.

That site is both great and alarming. Here is why.



SO many are still enthralled with the system that leeches their very lives out and will not risk losing their position in a crumbling system by being... rebellious...

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What a cluster fuck. I hope we don't get attacked for real by an actual army. Walleye May 2025 #1
We're one catastrophe (natural/intentional) away from martial law... rubbersole May 2025 #2
It is not that no 'thing' will stop him. OldBaldy1701E May 2025 #7
We the people barbtries May 2025 #14
This is exactly half of what is required to get through to the right people. OldBaldy1701E May 2025 #22
i feel very strongly that direct action is all that stands a chance barbtries May 2025 #23
we don't have to imagine it. it's happening. barbtries May 2025 #5
Even those that were elected by the people. And we all know they had to work harder to get there. Walleye May 2025 #11
i couldn't help but notice that barbtries May 2025 #13
I expect there will be actual lynchings before too long Walleye May 2025 #18
I hope you're wrong. barbtries May 2025 #20
Well, it's obvious we can't count on any of the Republicans to be patriots Walleye May 2025 #21
This would be the time for someone to do it, huh? SKKY May 2025 #15
That's what I keep thinking. And we keep building ill will with the rest of the world. Walleye May 2025 #17
Bush/Cheney 2.0 Krazy_Kat May 2025 #3
Exactly. The first thing that came to my mind. Midnight Writer May 2025 #4
Cheney quote 90-percent May 2025 #6
I don't know if the US ever recovers from this -- the lack of trust from our Allies crimycarny May 2025 #8
Again bdamomma May 2025 #12
The American people Will not surrender to idiocracy and fascism Mysterian May 2025 #16
I know few people like her Warpy May 2025 #9
Apparently these people did not get the memo: Bayard May 2025 #10
we are now so vulnerable to asymmetric warfare now. nt Javaman May 2025 #19
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