Right. Show up and do the needful.

I’ve seen armed “guards” and my polling station before and it’s unsettling to say the least.

Say no words. Just vote.

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Elder millennial here.

…that just about sums it up. Well done.

A real gem. Take a look at “The Studio” on Apple TV. 10/10. I’ll probably rewatch and I never do that.

Oh man, a great hack is to microwave your garlic for about 5 seconds and the peel comes right off.

And The Music Man just announced this will be a monthly service to make stonk go up.

“The market will bear the cost”

We’ve done it before (violating sovereignty). Kind of a lot. Oh man…I hate this list. Looking at it all (AI generated) at once is a big oof. Several are joint operations.

Year(s) – Aggressor – Victim – Colloquial name / shorthand

• 1846–1848 – United States – Mexico – Mexican–American War
• 1893 / 1898 – United States – Kingdom of Hawaii – Overthrow & Annexation of Hawaii
• 1899–1902 – United States – Philippines – Philippine–American War
• 1903 – United States – Colombia / Panama – Panama Secession (Canal Coup)
• 1912–1933 – United States – Nicaragua – U.S. Occupation of Nicaragua
• 1915–1934 – United States – Haiti – U.S. Occupation of Haiti
• 1916–1924 – United States – Dominican Republic – U.S. Occupation of DR
• 1953 – United States (CIA) – Iran – Operation Ajax
• 1954 – United States (CIA) – Guatemala – Guatemalan Coup
• 1958 – United States – Lebanon – Lebanon Crisis
• 1960–1965 – United States (CIA) – Congo – Lumumba Assassination / Congo Crisis
• 1961 – United States – Cuba – Bay of Pigs Invasion
• 1964 – United States – Brazil – Brazilian Military Coup
• 1965 – United States – Dominican Republic – Operation Power Pack
• 1969–1973 – United States – Cambodia – Secret Bombing of Cambodia
• 1960s–1970s – United States – Laos – Secret War in Laos
• 1970–1973 – United States (CIA) – Chile – Chilean Coup
• 1976 – United States – Argentina – Dirty War / Junta Support
• 1979–1989 – United States – Afghanistan – Operation Cyclone
• 1980s – United States – Nicaragua – Contra War
• 1983 – United States – Grenada – Invasion of Grenada
• 1989 – United States – Panama – Operation Just Cause
• 2001–2021 – United States – Afghanistan – War in Afghanistan
• 2003 – United States – Iraq – Iraq War
• 2011 – United States / NATO – Libya – Libyan Intervention
• 2011–present – United States – Syria – Syrian Civil War (U.S. Intervention)

Yeah, I’m in.

This! Movement begets movement. The opposite is also true.

Also, just starting is often the hardest part until recovery fatigue sets in.

Me, looking up what fedposting is…lol. Ben Jordan did a great video on that or something similar. Quickly becoming my favorite YouTuber.

You make a good point; protest, write representatives, all good things. Vote in the midterms (assuming we have them).

All that said, it doesn’t make what I said untrue. Post 2nd amendment stuff if it’s cathartic, but think it through.

I’m shook by how powerless I feel and guns don’t help the situation. But that feeling of helplessness is a feature of the fascism playbook.

As a gun owner, I agree with this. Open fire on ICE…see how that goes. You won’t win. You might kill one, but they will CERTAINLY kill your back. Isn’t it odd that in the most armed county on earth, no ICE officers have been shot in the line of duty (check me there, but I’m not familiar with one)?

Seems like most people are focused on the gun thing here. You already said it; what civil solution do we have?

Good point.

However, posting “I’m sorry” has a tendency to be the outlet needed to perpetuate inaction. It’s a “pressure relief valve” that can stifle action.

…he says as he does the exact same thing, day after day, knowingly 😒🤦‍♂️

For context, $77 billion is more than most nations spend on their military.

What we could have bought instead; a list of real problems that money could help significantly with, or fix entirely (generated with AI):

Universal Healthcare (Medicare for All)

• Est. cost: $3–4T per year
• $77B covers ~2–3 weeks of healthcare for the entire US
• Or ~6–7 million people for one year
• ~2% of annual national healthcare spend

High-Speed Rail and Public Transit

• Est. cost: $50–120M per mile
• $77B covers 600–1,200 miles of true HSR
• 3–5 major national corridors plus urban transit upgrades

Homelessness, Veterans, and Mental Health

• Est. cost: $150k–300k per housing unit; ~$25k/person/year care
• $77B covers 250,000–400,000 permanent housing units
• 10+ years of care for all chronically homeless
• 100% of veteran homelessness eliminated

Roads, Bridges, and Infrastructure

• Est. cost: ~$5M per bridge; ~$1M per mile of road
• $77B covers 15,000–20,000 bridge replacements
• ~100,000 miles of roadway rebuilt
• ~15–20% of all structurally deficient bridges

Domestic Semiconductor Manufacturing

• CHIPS Act: $52B total
• $77B covers 150% of CHIPS Act
• 3–5 leading-edge fabs
• Full AI, defense, and automotive supply-chain security

Fusion and Advanced Energy

• ITER reactor: ~$22B
• SPARC program: ~$4B
• $77B covers 3 ITER-class reactors
• 10+ SPARC-class fusion programs

Climate Resilience and Clean Energy

• Est. cost: ~$1B per GW renewable capacity
• $77B covers 60+ GW clean power
• Electrification of ~10 million homes
• Coastal protection and grid modernization across multiple states

Public Sector Scale Comparison

• Equals 3+ years of NASA’s budget
• Equals 10 years of US homelessness funding
• Exceeds annual defense budgets of most countries

…you understand that two things CAN be true at once, though. Right?

The one true statement is violating sovereignty is a bad thing. That’s the one bad thing.

I have the same model

No idea what I think about this. It’s terrible as a concept. It’s dated 25 November. Has anything happened with it since?

It’s so sickening it almost seems like a twisted fan fiction.

Faraday bag all electronic items; phone, smartwatch; hell, I’d even bag my car keys. Cover your face, especially the eye area. Make your voice heard, but don’t be a data point.

The Devil in the White City

A split third person narrative; One describes the architects that built the 1894 world fair in Chicago, and another that follows the escapades of one of history’s most notorious serial killers, HH Holmes, that prayed on the women that went to the fair.

One of my favorite books I’ve ever read.

I understand this rhetoric, but one extremely effective way of changing people’s opinions and broadening their world view is travel. Banning people from the US from traveling will only result in more insulation and “othering”.

That said, American tourists are 👏the 👏worst (I say as an American). We should act like what we are: guests. I’ve had the privilege to travel to five nations that don’t speak English as their native language and have learned my P’s and Q’s every time and it’s always paid off. I speak the language terribly, but I’m at least willing to try.

Benn Jordan did a great video on this: https://youtu.be/vU1-uiUlHTo