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Fiendish Thingy

(21,510 posts)
Fri Aug 15, 2025, 11:55 AM Aug 2025

They may currently have some measure of power, but one thing they can never have...

Unless we relinquish it voluntarily, is complete control .



Resources, for those who choose option #3:

https://www.democracydocket.com/

https://www.nokings.org/

https://indivisible.org/


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13 votes, 1 pass | Time left: Unlimited
All is hopeless. I am helpless. Unless Democratic leaders and celebrities (looking at you, Stephen Colbert, Taylor Swift and *especially* you, Bob Dylan) don't save us from this facist regime, then we are surely doomed.
1 (8%)
AARRGLE BARRGLE! Merrick Garland! AAIEEE!
0 (0%)
Fuck that doomer shit. As Helen Keller once said : "I am only one, but still I am one.I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do."
12 (92%)
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They may currently have some measure of power, but one thing they can never have... (Original Post) Fiendish Thingy Aug 2025 OP
I was very tempted to choose option #2 yardwork Aug 2025 #1
My goal is twofold: Fiendish Thingy Aug 2025 #2
And you do both very well! yardwork Aug 2025 #3
Aw, shucks Fiendish Thingy Aug 2025 #4
Better luck next time in that case. BannonsLiver Aug 2025 #8
Project 2025 is ahead of schedule should have been an option. gab13by13 Aug 2025 #5
But project 2025 isn't the topic of this thread Fiendish Thingy Aug 2025 #6
Climate change will take care of much of this Kaleva Aug 2025 #7

Fiendish Thingy

(21,510 posts)
6. But project 2025 isn't the topic of this thread
Fri Aug 15, 2025, 12:37 PM
Aug 2025

The topic is power vs control, and helplessness vs action.

Kaleva

(40,065 posts)
7. Climate change will take care of much of this
Fri Aug 15, 2025, 01:07 PM
Aug 2025

Our offspring and maybe even some of us are facing a very tough future regardless of what Trump does or is prevented from doing.

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