I believe we are past the tipping point ... your opinion

[intheflow]

14. Even if true, what good does it do to lament in this way?

It sounds defeatist. "Poor us! We're doomed" Yeah, so, what else is new? We can wallow in fear and despair or we can can take those feelings and turn them into direct action. Every grain of sand in their gears disrupts their plans.

Chinks in their armor are beginning. LTTEs, Tesla dealership protests, even some Republicans beginning to push back on Social Security and Medicaid cuts, cuts to veterans jobs, the complete Ukraine betrayal, tariffs, and exactly how much power Elon has. Elon himself is beginning to crack between DOGE, exploding rockets, Tesla stock crashing, and baby mamas reaching out to him on social media. I saw a screen shot of an X by Elon the other day that begged X users to post more beautiful and inspiring things, as if he hadn't been carefully cultivating it into a sewer since he bought it.

If you give into this despair, you are buying into their propaganda. The whole point of shock and awe is to overwhelm and depress any opposition. Fuck that! I invoke the power of our American ancestors to gather strength for this fight: the men who wrote the Constitution; the enslaved people who pushed back against their enslavers in a hundred different ways; the Union soldiers and Southern white sympathizers who fought against the Confederacy; the women who fought for equal rights; etc. None of these fights were easy, and many, many people felt despair in those situation. But they didn't give up, they continued to throw as much sand into the dehumanizing mechanisms as they could.