And the UK and Canada. Maybe not as bad as Brazil, but the NHS is Britain is being eroded every single day.

This is why even the best welfare states are not good enough. The greed of the rich and the bendy spines of politicians will slowly chip away at the systems and privatize them.

Get a gun for self defense and go to the range at least once a month. Organize community watches and mutual aid networks with your neighbors. Start creating relationships which pull away from the central supply chain, form community networks to supply needs and services locally and mutually: tool library, seed library, multiple large community gardens (no I’m not naive enough to think this will replace a grocery store), and any other services that are needed.

If you have the means, buy another gun, preferably a rifle or shotgun. Train with that. Start encouraging others in your community to arm themselves for self defense. Form a well organized militia.

Distribute organizing to others so you don’t burn out. Help others start their journey of community action. Then they start book clubs to read theory and praxis, then they can teach foraging techniques. Eventually, others in your community are learning skills which you didn’t have time for or didn’t interest you. That’s the point of community, not everyone has to be good at everything. Now you have people who can set up a local intranet with copper wires and servers to maintain crucial information offline, in case the internet goes down or is shut off by the government. You have those who can knit faster than you’ve ever seen and are providing socks and hats for everyone.

The Utopian and end goal of all this is to form resilient and thriving communities not dependent on the state and corporations for their needs. And yes, that would take a long time to get there. But for me, my admittedly Herculean dream is eventually those community gardens would become vertical farms and inspire other communities to practice the same. The construction crews in your area would become coops and with their needs provided would slowly start doing community projects, that the doctors and teachers would separate themselves from the state apparatus and serve their neighbors in mutual methods, bringing their passion and skills into the community.

But even if we don’t get to that end stage, or if that doesn’t appeal to you, mutual aid is still wonderful and any bit of it is beneficial and forms networks of trust. I’m not saying don’t vote, but know that the state and powerful are counting on you to place your trust in that one action and nothing else. Don’t give them that satisfaction.

*betrayed by the USSR and then taken over by fascists

France and England have enough to be a deterrent. I think around 500 between the two of them. And France has like 200 on active deployment, I think because of Russia.

Chuck Schummer had already basically bent over for them multiple times.

For people who have grown up under fundamentalist religion or abusive families, this definition of shame is very narrow. Often times, shame isn’t a vice that you hold onto for an excuse, it’s something that you were told you should feel for so long.

I don’t feel shame for being bisexual anymore or for thinking “filthy” and “sinful” thoughts but for years and years I did.

I know this is not related to the previous thread but I just wanted to point out that shame can sometimes be something placed on us, even if we don’t want to believe it.

They’re replacing us. Until now, corporations have obviously marketed to the working class, even the poorest of us. And they put in that effort, but now they’re moving past us bottom 90% of consumers and focusing on the top 10% and of course the ultra rich specifically. The top 10% of consumers already accounted for 55% of all buying power in Feb 2025, before tariffs, before the unnamed recession we’re in now, before the shutdown and mass firings.

So now you can imagine what that number is at, and you can see their thought process. It’s just not worth bothering to market and sell to us commoners.

Now, I think they’re stupid and I think they’re way too confident in something like the AI bubble, which will pop eventually. That being said, most new purchases (cars, clothes, electronics, ect…) are by the top 10%. They are gunning for our buying power and they are gunning for our labor power with AI. If they succeed, we will lose our two biggest bargaining chips. The ultra rich know this, and they hate that we have had any say over the economy.

If we’re gonna do this general strike, we gotta do it soon, because they are actively working to make action like that impossible.

Obama basically rolled over like a limp noodle when Mitch blocked his appointment to the SC. Oh and RBG is just one more old fart whose ego got in the way of progress, and because of her unwillingness to quit and enjoy a nice retirement during a Dem admin, we are now at this current 6-3 supermajority.

As long as it’s not redfash bs. Actual communism would be great. Stateless, classless, moneyless society built on egalitarianism and scientific progress for all.

The cruelty Israel shows is beyond abysmal. But hey… ethno-states are a great idea and never bound to go wrong

Please be ready to have your phone scanned on the way back in. It might not happen, but I would make a backup anyways and then if they ask, just factory reset it.

It probably won’t happen to you, but this has been happening to whitest cishet people for a while now, randomly chosen too. They don’t care about just POC, they like inconveniencing people and the power trip is the point.

No Kings is run by idpol libs who think a return to normalcy is somehow the path forward. When normalcy is exactly what got us here.

Always been this way. Say whatever you want about Waco (I fucking hate cults and any fundamentalist religion, so this is no support for the cult) and Ruby Ridge but those are just two examples.

Obama calling a drone strike on a US Citizen’s wedding in Yemen, the CIA killing probably thousands of Americans but we only know of a few dozen declassified, Kent shooting, and a few more.

It’s just more visible now. Sorry if you’ve seen this line before but it’s so true: fascism is imperialism turning inwards. And that inward turning is not only onto domestic operations but also in relation to the “ingroup”. Black people being killed for decades (even excluding lynchings) has been ignored by the general population but now, that same hatred and cruelty is being applied to everyone else. The ingroup just got a WHOLE lot smaller.

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If they could just turn some of those on Washington, it might be a significant deterrent to invade Greenland.

Let’s say 250 warheads in active deployment. Just a few of these would reek incredible damage on the USA.

Chat control doesn’t sound very much like respecting citizen’s rights

Fuck normalcy. Normalcy is how we got here. Neolib capitalism is exactly why we are here. Fascism is often described as imperialism turning inwards. And I get it, compared to this insanity, “normal” looks amazing. But if/when this fascist movement fails, the corporate elite will milk that line of reasoning so fucking hard.

And even if you don’t think socialism is a good idea, we at least need SOLID social democracy. Green new deal IMMEDIATELY, universal basic services (water, basic food, internet, heating,…), reduced government overreach into citizens’ personal lives, massive taxes on the rich.

The establishment dems are going to champion a return to “normal” so incredibly fervently. We cannot let them suck us back into it. The climate can’t take it, the global south absolutely is done with it, the average working class American cannot handle it. We need solid change.

You shall welcome the immigrant and foreigner among you, for you too were once foreigners in Egypt.

Hey… Give Musk some credit

They are transitioning away from the bottom 90% of consumers to the top 10%. We are witnessing the beginning of a neo-feudalist transition, and the bottom majority won’t matter anymore.