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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThey 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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| 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%) |
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| AARRGLE BARRGLE! Merrick Garland! AAIEEE! | |
0 (0%) |
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| 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
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yardwork
(68,565 posts)1. I was very tempted to choose option #2
Fiendish Thingy
(21,510 posts)2. My goal is twofold:
I seek to both inform and entertain.
yardwork
(68,565 posts)3. And you do both very well!
Fiendish Thingy
(21,510 posts)4. Aw, shucks
Thanks!
BannonsLiver
(20,092 posts)8. Better luck next time in that case.
gab13by13
(30,659 posts)5. Project 2025 is ahead of schedule should have been an option.
I chose not to choose.
Fiendish Thingy
(21,510 posts)6. But project 2025 isn't the topic of this thread
The topic is power vs control, and helplessness vs action.
Kaleva
(40,065 posts)7. Climate change will take care of much of this
Our offspring and maybe even some of us are facing a very tough future regardless of what Trump does or is prevented from doing.