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Comment on How much can we hope is being put in place behind the scenes at the US federal level to mitigate the damage Trump will do? Can any of it be effective?

SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Having been alive and watching our government become a dysfunctional fucking mess over the course of over forty fucking years…

No.

Get involved with Mutual Aid Networks. We will not be able to rely on the systems we’ve traditionally been able to rely on. We must build our own systems outside of the capitalist landscape and outside government authority. We can neither trust the capitalists nor the government they have twisted to their own ends (easily done because the constitution is some old ass bullshit, and nobody ever does anything about the loopholes. it’s like a computer program that’s never been updated but is still online with all sorts of security issues).

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andrewrgross@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I want to respond to this by saying that it is 100% correct.

Get to know your neighbors. Figure out who can do what. Is anyone undocumented? Is anyone good at fixing things? Who has kids and who is good at watching kids?

The plus side is that if we do this right, we should be able to toss out the Christian Nationalists in a few years. But we’ll have a much better shot at that if we learn how to take care of one another the way we should’ve a long time ago.

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- SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  if we learn how to take care of one another the way we should’ve a long time ago.
  
  corporations rob us of our dignity and independence.
  
  A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
  
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Telodzrum@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
rofl

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