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Silvana Briand's avatar

A really good example of this is tiktok. They banned it figuring that they'd buy it or everyone would go back to Meta. Neither happened because everyone flooded the Redbook app and went full on Chinese. They were met with delighted cordiality and more swarmed over... End result? US is desperately trying to back out of the tiktok ban and Trump says if they don't reverse the ban he'll issue a decree reinstating it as soon as he's sworn in. No power huh?

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The hardest thing to realize for many people is that we can not change the world by ourselves, but we can change it together. No man is an island sort of thing. We can't do eveverything, but we can do something. Each of us can, and it adds up, like rain during a storm. We live in a world where we are taught that we have to possess a lot to make a difference. This is what the empire wants us to think. You mentioned you lost a hero last year, a gentleman involved in dealings during water gate I believe. It was an article talking about the loss of a giant in our fight. You mentioned how you felt...I remember making a comment stating you are to us as he was to you. It might not be about power, but how we work together towards a common goal. We don't have the power to stop the flow of a river individually, together however, we could build a damn. Perspective. We can never dismantle the empire in one strike, it is decentralized, we can however make solutions that serve as morale boosts, we can work together in areas together to help where we can. We can't be heroes, perhaps, but we can make a difference, you do.

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