How many people did you die for?

LOVE LOVE LOVE Save-a-Fox. I live nearby and they do incredible work

There is no “back to a barter system”, though, because barter isn’t what predated capitalism, it’s what exists in a capitalist system when the system fails and people need something other than money.

For most of her man history, we primarily operated under various styles of gift economies that are more akin to modern conceptions of mutual aid as as envisioned by socialism and especially anarchism.

No reason to be sarcastic. Noem’s a cop and cops shoot dogs.

Yeah, it’s scary how much people don’t remember/don’t know

Right, but how is the “$” supposed to be pronounced? Is is Microcashsoft? Microdollarsoft? It’s just not very intuitive

I’m just confused here about how “M$” is supposed to be read

That’s a really elegant analogy. I’m going to use that in the future while trying to explain this concept to people. Thank you

Resistance at this stage doesn’t look like the People™ taking to the streets and getting into fire fight with federal troops. That would be over and crushed in a matter of days. At this stage resistance is about building the necessary community connections to strengthen your position. Look into prefigurative politics and how they’ve factored into virtually every revolutionary project.

Yes. Through systems of organized and concerted prefiguration. Help your neighbors. Build networks. Make the state obsolete. Not only can you do your part all by yourself, it is essential to the rest of the movement that you do what you can.

I mean, I agree with you. Things are probably going to get a lot worse before they can get better, and whatever “better” looks like will not be what it was before.

Nothing. I have no faith in the system, and I would like to see the whole thing torn down and replaced. But since that not happening, I’d rather say and do things that give people hope rather than what I actually believe: Things will have to get much worse before they can get better

Look, either you have faith in the system, and you believe this will help. Or you don’t, and you know it won’t. It doesn’t change anything. What will happen will happen. The wheels are already in motion

That’s what I want to happen, but I’m afraid it will lead to A LOT more civil unrest, nationwide, which unfortunately means more people dying

Sure, but that’s definitely closer to jailing these fuckers than we’ve been so far, right? Progressing (middling as it is) is progress.

Not saying that it is the end, just a step forward

That is literally what it says he’s going to do. That’s what “hold in contempt…” means.

Armored door? No, that is absolutely not a thing in the U.S. I’ve never even heard of that outside of, like, some billionaire’s private compound or something

Edit: And it look like from a cursory search that they are OUTRAGEOUSLY expensive.

We’re no talking about the National Guard, we’re talking about two 11th Airborne Infantry units who has specifically trained for arctic warfare. This is how the period of truly monstrous civil conflict that we all know is coming starts. This right here.

And in terms of Democrats stepping up: Walz has already staged the Minnesota National Guard and have them at the ready to defend the protesters against ICE and U.S. Army

You probably know this by now, but Bully is a remarkable tale of anti-bullying. You don’t play the one bullying others, you play the one who gets bullied.