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Ocasio-Cortez says if you feel burnt out by the news lately, that’s ‘exactly’ what Trump wants
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Great, now I'm burnt out and feeling guilty about it.
Honestly, continuing to exist/taking a moment to be nice to yourself in an administration that hates you counts. Keep existing.
A lot of these click-baity titles and over-simplified summaries seem to be adding to this very problem of guilting people for being overwhelmed.
Unfortunately that’s the system but please don’t feel guilty for being human. Kindness and compassion is resistance, and starting with yourself is a valid step.
Fuck the forces who are selling a solution to a problem they created but are trying to say is your fault. /endrant
thank you
Yes. Together we are a non-neutonian liquid. Do what you can, and what you can do is enough.
The first thing she said is to take a breather. If you're unfocused, tired and afraid you can't do anything.
The second thing is to learn, educate yourself, figure out that Trump, Musk and billionaires are not stirring up chaos and havoc just because they feel like it. If these were 100 unconnected random actions, tackling them feels impossible. Once you understand that it's all around the theme of Musk, Trump, media-owning billionaires want maximum money and minimum accountability, their actions simply fit within that and a strategy to tackle it is easier.
Third is to "lock in", focus your energy on what you can do, big or small. Even if you are too afraid to talk to another soul, knowing your rights is still action. Knowledge is power. Talking to your friends and family is action. Calling and writing to your legislators is action. Joining a protest/rally/meeting is action. Organizing, volunteering leading is action. The point is do it to what level you are capable at the moment. There are far more non-billionaires than billionaires. Every bit of action counts.
Last, make them abuse their power, do not just allow them to or assume they will. They are going to do horrifying things, you don't have to submit to it in advance. You can slow it down.
The thing the idiot billionaires didn't realize is that they already had maximum money and minimum accountability.
Money. Which would you rather have, a million dollars or a million rubles? By grinding the US economy to a standstill, they may have more dollars, but they'll be worth less.
When they complete turning us into a fascist oligarchy, they'll have more accountability, not less. Nearly every single one of them will have to spend more time worrying about getting thrown out of a window by a "superior" or shot in front of a hotel on their way to a conference.
They'll have to fear everyone above and below them. They discarded a set of rules that originated from general agreements to help us all get along, and have chosen power and blood as the deciding factor over laws. Well, that goes both ways. Democracy requires some good faith, and we've taken that for granted.
The founders understood this. It's why they invented our system of democracy. It wasn't just out of the goodness of their hearts. That all happened around 1776, as you know.
That sentiment didn't arise out of the blue. It was around for decades before it got to that point. The founding fathers were very aware of what was happening there. The English civil war happened in the mid 1600s and the king was executed.
It turns out constant power struggles were often not great for those in power.
But we've forgotten that. So now, instead of learning from history, we'll repeat it.
The key is to tune out and organize your resistance with your peers. Find energy in love for others
most people are in denial and carrying on like business as usual, making plans for 5 year projects as if the last remaining shreds of whatever used to pass for "checks and balances" were not being obliterated as we speak
Do your best to dislodge them. Coach them up on growing root vegetables
something something horse to water...
i've tried. it's decision paralysis in addition to denial. people don't want to think about living in the new amerikkkan trumpistan. so they don't. any suggestion to take any action is "overreacting."
to be honest, you need to be careful about who you talk to about what. everyone has a price, and yes most prices are pretty low. but even with trusted close friends, don't assume they won't sell you out to save their own kids, just like you would do
Coach them on how to install a VPN so we can still inform ourselves.
TailsOS, too
What is TailsOS? Is it easy? I want to reduce the barrier to entry for being safe online. I think a lot of people don't know where to start, so they get overwhelmed with complex solutions. They end up giving up before they get started. So I'm trying to convince people by helping them do easy things. Maybe TailsOS is a lesson two kinda thing?