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TriTorch's avatar

At some point people are going to wake up to the fact that all of this is a horrific stage production, with terrible actors, and the citizens are unwitting extras in this loathsome movie with real consequences.

The politicians and bureaucrats are all bought, blackmailed, and bribed and reading literal scripts, and as the show gets deliberately more ludicrous and outrageous (demoralizing mentacide), so does their digital ID, 15 minute CBDC prison get closer to reality.

One morning you'll wake up to find they are:

"taking down the scenery, pulling back the curtains, moving the tables and chairs out of the way and showing you the brick wall at the back of the theater.” -Zappa

We have to act to save ourselves, because no one is coming to our rescue. Here is how: We first need to build a platform of local strength, self-reliance, and resiliency. Once done, and we have a solid foundation from which to stand, from there we begin working on taking back the higher levels: county, state, federal.

The following solutions were crowdsouced from various forums across the web. I have distilled them into this:

The solution is to get local, get self-reliant, get the common unity back in community by building webs of resilience with your neighbors, get control of your school boards, mayors and sheriff's office, and town councils (the last places we still hold all of the cards), get a garden in your lawn no matter how small, a single tomato plant is better than nothing, get a well (water is your most important resource hands down), get ready, get moving, get doing, and, if so inclined, get God.

Everyone is looking for a savior instead of looking in the mirror. We are the ones we've been waiting for.

Mikhael Arnold's avatar

Great advice. But most people don't have the resources, the good sense nor the will. Time has passed for logical thinking and methodical / rational actions. We're screwed. It's gonna be every man for him or her self.

Kathleen McCroskey's avatar

"We have met the enemy and he is us" - Pogo

Jon Olsen's avatar

Nope, not "us" as we never approved anything of the sort. It is the PREDATOR CLASS along with its running dog stenographers in the media.

Benjamin's avatar

Nothing is going to happen until we are all pushed into a death corner we can't escape. We know this.

TriTorch's avatar

So…what you’re saying is that until the pain of doing nothing is greater than the pain of doing something we will get walled in into a prison we cannot “do something” our way out of?

Benjamin's avatar

Hey, I'm just trying to make the point that Hitler and Stalin and countless other autocrats never got voted out of office. And I'm trying to make it in a way where I don't get banned, like you usually do if you advocate for what actually changes the world. Been there before.

But go ahead and do stuff, I support doing stuff. Most of it irrelevant. Like No kings, BLM, Occupy Wall Street, etc. A waste of time that probably just moved the Overton window towards dictatorship. But go on, have a ball.

jamenta's avatar

Turns out the lesser of two evils is still evil.

Nick Douglas's avatar

Zero+Zero=Zero and Zero-Zero=Zero and Zero*Zero=Zero while Zero/Zero=Bullshit

Indu Abeysekara's avatar

jamenta, We both wrote this some time ago - nothing has changed. Things have gotten worse.

Ned B.'s avatar

The Evil twins, Chester and Lester, were running for public office. I voted for the Lester Evil and still got an Evil elected official.

https://nedb.substack.com/p/lesser-evil-voting

Rosalind Dalefield's avatar

The Democrats and the Republicans are, as George Galloway so eloquently put it, two cheeks of the same arse.

Michael Y.'s avatar

AKA: The Uniparty.

Spunty's avatar

Nothing new here for anyone who watched the Biden administration feed the genocide in Gaza.

Michael Y.'s avatar

And fund, arm and support a 3 year proxy war against Russia before handing it off to Trump.

Abbas Abdulmalik's avatar

It’s clearly no secret if they keep silent about it: silence means consent.

Jim's avatar
5hEdited

The truth should be very clear to anyone paying attention: left vs right is, and has always been, a carefully curated illusion. The reality is the transnational oligarchy vs the 99.9%.

Jon Olsen's avatar

There is an AUTHENTIC left and an AUTHENTIC right and there's a Fauxi left and a neo-con right.

Alan's avatar

Same owners both parties.

Nick Douglas's avatar

Who could that be? It's a "mystery"?

Antonio Brownlowe's avatar

We will have War on IRAN or anyone else that ISRAEL wants the US to go to war with, that's just a fact .

If Israel wants the US to go to war with" GOD, "Americas leaders will go to war with GOD without question that's the kind of hold the Zionist have on America .

With the current leaders we have today in the US, We are" DOOMED!"

Nick Douglas's avatar

Or possibly the upcoming war will result in annihilation of shitsrael and liberation of Palestine.

Mary's avatar

Wouldn't that be something.

Unfortunately, if Iran strikes Israel, US will strike Iran badly, then who knows who will jump in. Mission accomplished re Israel, but WW3 and possible total planetary destruction.

If not for the wildlife and environmental consequences, it'd almost be worth it.

Nick Douglas's avatar

I do not think that RF and China will let Iran fall.

Mary's avatar

I agree. And not should they. So that'll be an all-out nuclear confronted between RF, US, China and Europe (US/Zio's poodle), then...

Nick Douglas's avatar

Mary let me ask you something. Do you honestly enjoy living in this human shithole. Earth does not need humans. Humans are stupid imbeciles. Humans and intelligence should never be used in the same sentence. Dinosaurus were intelligent and they lived 300+ million years - and still would if not for the unfortunate space Rock. Modern humans will not make it to 10,000 years.

Mary's avatar

Yes, like I said above, I could just about think of it as a good thing except we have no right to destroy the ecosystem and the the creatures that depend on it for their survival. F*ck humans, we're done.

Mikhael Arnold's avatar

Hell, we may not make to next month.

Mary's avatar

*confrontation*

Feral Finster's avatar

Don't kid yourself. China cannot and will not do anything.

Mikhael Arnold's avatar

China doesn't need to do anything but wait all this shit out. Smart. That's why they're a civilization and we're a shit hole.

Nick Douglas's avatar

2F what happened? You sound so pessimistic tonight. It is so unlike you 😂🤣

Feral Finster's avatar

I have said this all along. Russia hopes that the West will let it join the Club. China hopes that the Americans will turn on them last

Whatistobedone's avatar

Spot on, brother, spot on 👍

Mikhael Arnold's avatar

We damn sure are.

Stephen Walker's avatar

Goodbye Tel Aviv, the liberal face of an 80-year genocide. Goodbye Beersheba tech bros, the 21st-century Nazi nexus of automated baby killing. You won’t be missed.

ennui_mcgee's avatar

Regime change is needed. Here in the United States and all over the west.

Christopher Rixman's avatar

Democrats don’t have to cheer for war to enable it.

They just have to fund it and go quiet.

That’s how bipartisan empire works.

One party pulls the trigger. The other makes sure the gun was loaded.

Nick Douglas's avatar

100%. Well said.

David's avatar
5hEdited

The nation never had a true opposition party and is paying the consequences. The public cannot think outside the box of bipartisan politics and that is where the nation is stuck. The road ahead is a locomotive headed downhill on a steep incline and the brakes have failed.

Jay's avatar

100% true, sad reality.

Joseph Cullen's avatar

In the words of the inimitable George Galloway the Democrats and Republicans are merely “Two cheeks of the same arse” !!!!

X K's avatar

So is the inability to connect the dots between the 1953 coup and Iran today due to failure of the educational system in this country, or willful ignorance that goes hand-in-hand with American arrogance?

Whatistobedone's avatar

The dems love war $$$$$....Israel wants EVERYTHING in Iran.. the land, the resources. Uncle Sam has always, is, will ALWAYS jump when Israel says boo. Nuttyyahoo wants Iran. The USA OBEYS. The tRumpf crime syndicate probably already has plans in the works for LUCRATIVE developments....resorts, golf clubs, mansions...FOR ISRAELIS ONLY. Cuz they're real special, I hear...."Chosen?" F* israyhell...F* both Rs and Ds ...and always F* the NYT.....MAJOR cheerleader...especially if the "war" (not a "war,"a terrorist attack)...benefits israyhell. The lot of them are EVIL. THIS IS black and white...no continuum here.

Feral Finster's avatar

Yup. Remember AOC in Munich whining that the entire Venezuelan government wasn’t kidnapped?

End the State's avatar

Fa real?! I missed that. She’s a fucking tool though.

Nick Douglas's avatar

Republicans are full idiots while democrats are only half-idiots.

Tom High's avatar

Much more than half. I’d go 90-95% idiots.

Nick Douglas's avatar

She was also accusing Russia of unprovoked aggression against "poor" ukraine. These demoncrats really have so many blind spots. Or is it genetic lack of gray matter? Perhaps it is too much of shitty matter.