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Mark Cuban Says a 'Red Rural Recession' Is Coming Soon. Cuts, Firings, and Grant Cancellations Are Set to Wreck Small Town Economies

I say, this, after weighing the words carefully in my mind, and with a profound sense of empathy for what it means, but – good. Maybe most of the people in these areas are so deeply ingrained that they can’t tell right from left, but at some point when the pain is too much, at some point when the desperation and bitterness and anger is leading to no action and no results, at some point they will realize that their mayors who are Republican and their county representatives are Republican and their state legislators are Republican and their governors are Republican and their congressional representatives are Republican and their president is Republican. At some point there would be a break, hopefully, in their Great Wall of ignorance and stupidity for some light to shine through. And while I fervently agree with most of them on how much I hate the national Democratic Party and it’s neoliberal corporate subserviency, That’s something different has to come about for us to get somewhere out of this hell scape.

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Mass. woman speaks out after video shows lCE agents smashing car window to get husband

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There’s two things here to consider. And it’s very important that this conversation starts amongst more people, and more communities.

These Nazis are coming for communities that they think are easy targets, that will give no real resistance. But what happens if that changes? What if in a flip of a switch, unorganized but deliberate violence is purposefully used to address these actions? That when they came, hypothetically, and they broke the glass, they were immediately met with fatal gunfire?

And of course this too would happen in succession other places in similar instances. When the Nazis came their foot soldiers were struck down. What would then happen?

Two things can both be true. They could be scared and forced to back down, which to some degree may be valid. But I think the worse latter would happen, which could also be good but dangerous— because these are “federal law enforcement” so they will claim they will enact the insurrection act in order to bring soldiers to heel in the cities and places and to assist the Nazis.

And this is where the chess pieces move towards an end game situation. Either the people then continue to resist the Nazis with force if need be, and then hopefully get the soldiers to realize this is bullshit and have them turn as well— which they might— or the people will cower and they’d offer up the offenders and compatriots in order to believe they’d save their own skin while simultaneously signing all their death warrants.

Folks need to understand that protesting is now a nonstarter. You have to protest and resist peacefully in every mass setting you can. The system needs to be dragged to a halt economically for the pressures to start hurting those that can make this stop in a nonviolent way.

But if this fails, violence becomes the means of resistance because it becomes the monopoly change agent. Either it will be used upon all of us, and we all inevitably die under tyranny, or it’s used by us to take back and some of us may perish but under freedom.

These games and actions have happened in other cultures and societies at different times in the past. Some with the good results some with the bad.

But rest assured if you sit behind your keyboard and do nothing. If you prepare to sacrifice nothing. You are all but guaranteed to lose everything.

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The question Joe Biden keeps asking: ‘You think we can actually come back from this?’

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I did in fact read it. I did in fact read the dissenting opinions. I did in fact listen to the case as it was being presented including all the theoreticals posed.

Biden could have him killed or pushed out of a c130 somewhere over the pacific and then scotus would step in after the fact. It was literally one of the dissenting opinion points about just how far this could be abused before it’s reigned in.

T hasn’t even begun to test the limits to the powers he was given, and Biden just like so many other things, fecklessly dismissed.

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Gavin Newsom Sits Down For Podcast With Serial Killer Who Targets Homeless

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I can’t stress this enough: for anyone who isn’t in California, lemme tell you that sure if you want to move the country more towards sane politics things have to go back to the dems. But not this guy.

I would put literally any other democrat in power before this one. Go look up how much Bay Area people have to pay PG&E in electric and gas costs namely thanks to him.

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Tesla Is Sitting on a Record 50k Unsold EVs

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This is my stupid fucking friend who can’t get off Elons nuts at all. It’s fucking sad. He literally bought a model Y the other day despite me telling him Rivian is about to release a competitor because he thinks he can add it to the robo taxi fleet in a year or two. God I love him and am sick of this shit.

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Despite new allegations, Maine’s Platner predicts voters will send him to Senate

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Dude it’s because he poses a serious critical existential threat to the neocon/neoliberal establishment that has hold of the Democratic Party. If everyday Dave here can win a prestigious senate seat and out incumbent wet noodle Collins it poses a real risk to the absolute medocre status quo that has carefully and strategically been propped up over the past 40 years to keep people from actually thinking the government can be made up of actual working class people.

He may be flawed as shit but if he is anti Schumer and jefferies, anti AIPAC, and anti-corporate lobbying.

Oh boy he’s gonna be a handful.

They don’t want more of this. They want to stamp it out before more people get uppity. They can’t afford to have people believe government can actually work.