This is an emergency, and it demands emergency response from every American with power or influence. The window for effective resistance narrows with each passing day. History will judge harshly those who had the capacity to resist but chose instead to wait and see how things develop. The time to act is now, before the mechanisms that would allow effective resistance are completely dismantled.
The alarms are being sounded, and not just from this publication. If nobody that has even a shred of power does anything… well fuck.
What can I do? Shit posting hasn’t helped.
What can I do?
Depends on how much you you value you freedom/life, cuz the things that need to be done could put both in jeopardy. Leave your cell phone at home.
Post harder?
Look for protests to join. Call email call your reps. There’s got to be a way to sue, but i don’t know anything about that route.
My reps voicemails are completely full and they don’t reply to email. It’s a farce.
Send a letter, while the USPS is still around.
Send a postcard. A lot more letters just get tossed instead of opened because of security risks.
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What Lenin did was far worse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago
We aren’t going to fix Traitorapist Trump’s enshitification by using Lenin’s far worse enshitification of Russia as a guide.
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why are you linking me to obvious us propaganda?
Why should anybody believe you when you have to use an easily disproven lie the very first thing you said because there is no legitimate way to explain the horrors of what happened in the USSR? The author was a Soviet citizen who never set foot in the USA until after his entire 3 volume series was published. He had collected a lot of material because he was a 7 year victim of Stalin’s Gulag.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn
[Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn[a][b] ⓘ (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008)[6][7] was a Russian author and Soviet dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system. He was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature “for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature”.[8] His non-fiction work The Gulag Archipelago “amounted to a head-on challenge to the Soviet state” and sold tens of millions of copies.[9]]
Khrushchev himself personally approved of Solzhenitsyn’s previous book about Stalin’s Gulag. Was the leader of the USSR also peddling “obvious US propaganda”? LMFAO…
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/the-prophet-and-the-commissars-2008-08
lenin oversaw one of the biggest and quickest jumps in quality of life for people in history.
The author shows over and over in his book that the roots of Stalinism go right back to Lenin.
[Solzhenitsyn painstakingly laid the theoretical, legal, and practical origins of the Gulag system at Lenin’s feet, not Stalin’s.]
How is randomly arresting people in places like train stations and libraries in order to fulfill a police arrest quota from the top dictator a “jump in quality of life” LMFAO! Lenin and his party started the biggest enshitification of any country in history. Who the f*ck would ever want to live in a country where such as things as arrest quotas of random people exist? You would literally be risking your life every time you left your apartment.
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still quoting literal US propaganda.
I’m quoting literally Russian sources. You responding that 2+2=5 doesn’t help you at all. Even if there is a rare person who doesn’t already know that 2+2=4, they can easily look it up. In addition, since you are someone who is obviously anti-American, why would any American listen to you about American politics? We know that you have no interest in helping Americans, and what Stalin and Lenin would think about something is completely irrelevant to us. Russians lost the Cold War because Lenin and Stalin massively enshitified it after stealing control from the people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn
[Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn[a][b] ⓘ (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008)[6][7] was a RUSSIAN author and SOVIET dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system. He was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature “for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature”.[8] His non-fiction work The Gulag Archipelago “amounted to a head-on challenge to the Soviet state” and sold tens of millions of copies.[9]]
there are plenty of valid criticism you could muster about the soviet union
Yes I really don’t get why you chose to make yourself an irrelevant fossil. There is plenty of reasonable critiques of capitalism you could make without defending the USSR which was every bit as bad as Nazi Germany. You defending Lenin and Stalin is going to be rightly viewed exactly the same as another guy coming here and defending Hitler. If you are socialist, the smartest thing you can do is to do everything you can to distance yourself from Lenin and Stalin. The world has already seen what their version of “socialism” looks like and it is absolutely horrible. In order to taken seriously, you would need to make it very clear that your view of socialism has absolutely nothing in common with Lenin and Stalin.
Solzhenitsyn wrote about 2000 pages on the Lenin/Stalin Gulag.
If nobody that has a shred of power does anything
why would they start now?
Top comment from Mike Brock’s blog (where this diatribe came from):
Right now it feels we have a growing chorus of people raising alarm, but very few people proposing any specific actions that are commensurate with the scale of the crisis? I appreciate your work and I don’t mean this flippantly, but do you have any proposals more specific than “resist” or “do something”?
This comment is my thought exactly. Brock isn’t wrong, but he’s just blowing real hard and hoping the house falls down.
All this blog did was piss me of, but it didn’t point me in a direction.
(But thanks for posting, OP.)
The founding fathers would have you join a mass of people outside the homes of the legislators demanding they take action or suffer consequences.
Supposedly we have mechanisms to counter what’s going on. The people in DC need to be pulling those lenders yesterday. Every person in politics should be fighting back.
If you’re looking for advice on what citizens should do, that’s not who the people sounding the are talking to.
Its because its against TOS everywhere to say what must be done, and people are too afraid/divided/poor to do it.
You’re not allowed to speak the obvious answer.
The coup happened decades ago. They’re now comfortable enough in their power that the mask can come off.
I hate that I’m typing this…
People need to start buying weapons right now. It’s not that I think we’re at the “take up arms” phase. It’s that I think we should be ready before they keep us from being able to.
With all the shit they’re pulling with federal databases, I expect people are going to start being added to NICS (background check database) for political reasons.
When you get a NICS denial, there’s no explanation of why it’s was denied, but you can’t buy a gun.
And it will alert the FBI that you tried.
Yeah they will absolutely try to deny gun ownership based on political affiliation
If that happens. Theres going to be a huge influx of gun shows.
FYI, the “Gun Show Loophole” isn’t a real thing. Dealers still have to fill out a 4473 and run a background check at gun shows. There’s even a checkbox for it on the 4473.
What there is is a private sales loophole, where individuals can sell a gun on the secondary market.
That doesn’t require a gun show.
Stop being pedantic. The only reason there is so many dealers at them is because of all the private sales in the first place.
They are a common meet-up place for private sellers, but it does nothing for dealers. The secondary market is bad for dealers.
You really don’t seem to know what you’re talking about.
Private sellers are not required to do background checks according to federal law. States are free to require private sellers to do background checks, but half of the states do not require them.
That’s what I said. Prialvate sellers are not dealers, and private sales don’t have to be performed at gun shows.
And there are still legal requirements. For instance, it’s illegal to sell or gift a person a pistol if they live in a different state.withput going to a dealer and transferring it through them with a background check. You also cannot sell or give away a firearm that isn’t legal in the state in which the transfer is taking place or in the state of legal residence of the person taking ownership of the firearm.
When I was in firearm sales, we had spreadsheets for every gun in our inventory listing the states of residence in which it could be legally sold.
Additionally, you have to follow the transfer regulations of both states. So if someone from New Jersey wanted to buy a hunting rifle from the store where I worked, we had to run a New Jersey background check, fill out New Jersey paperwork, and review their New Jersey firearms license. If there was a waiting period in their state, we had to honor it.
If private sales are banned (NICS check requirements are private sales bans because civilians don’t have access to NICS) in someone’s home state, buying it privately in a different state is a crime.
Fun additional fact: In Texas we also had to report to the feds anytime someone purchased more than one semi-auto centerfire rifle of 22 caliber or greater in a 5-day period, or more than 1 handgun in a 5-day period. That’s a regulation only in effect in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California.
Lmao no conservative in this country would be for a gun ban. Ever. They might suck the orange balls but they suck their gun muzzles even harder while saying the 2nd amendment out loud. This scenerio would never happen.
Conservatives aren’t the ones that will be banned. They’ll target liberals and the conservatives will joke that the dems should be happy for finally getting gun control for themselves.
US gun control started under Governor Reagan when black people started buying them.
That won’t happen as long as they make sure you can buy all the guns you’d ever want as long as you stay on the RIGHT side of anything political.
As a Libertarian who voted Democrat in the last several elections, I agree. tRump is not as pro 2A as he claims, he’s fine with “his” people being armed, but I could totally see him trying to block others from gun purchases, especially if he sees them as “enemies” to his cause.
Its going to take more than a protest march or office meeting with representatives to undo it. May as well face that fact and prepare
Well who gave them the foot in the door? Some decisions are not so easy to walk off huh
