I just reskeeted @prisonculture.bsky.social saying people don't know. I'm telling you people don't know. I keep having conversations, even conversations with people who are in media who are missing huge chunks of what's happening. People are busy and aren't directly impacted so they don't know
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These people are PAID to pay attention. One would think.
Even if they're told, many still cannot comprehend what it will mean to them personally.
The need to FAFO might as well be as American as baseball and apple pie at this point.
Get some people together do some sidewalk fliering on a weekend. Put up stickers
1935 pamphlet for the Bonus Army action (tent camp on the National Mall demanding their benefits early because of the devalued dollar after the depression).
https://wolfsonian.org/blog/2021/22/
https://harpers.org/archive/2012/12/anarchist-calisthenics/
That said for those of you stuck in functional freeze, I get it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sheep_Look_Up?wprov=sfla1
Yeah. It's terrifying. And scary to show up at a protest. But show up anyway. At the least people will see you in the streets.
🙉🙈🙊
Wrote a song in Trump 1:
What happens if the agents of hate
seize control of the instruments of state
and IT becomes a weapon to create
your worst nightmare?
https://amazingradio.us/profile/dougsheresh/tunes/cd81bdb8-bdc9-469d-81ba-6bbec2ce3ecb
Right now we’re running 50:50 people who are freaking out and people who still think Trump’s a wise businessman but even the former is 2-3 weeks behind the discussion here
- https://www.etsy.com/listing/1882385485/billionaires-are-the-parasite-class-elon
- https://www.etsy.com/listing/1885113463/100pcs-deport-elon-sticker-pack-anti
- https://www.etsy.com/listing/1865246616/swasticar-bulk-stickers-25-500-pack
https://act.moveon.org/survey/trump-did-that-sticker-sms/
Every pushback helps
Highly relevant
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP824xb6r/
Particularly the ones concentrating on hiding the facts
Passed a boarded up store today. Now I know Hozier and Dua Lipa are coming to town.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/climate/NYT-first-earth-day.html
Why don't we care anymore? We have been sedated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPiUj5VQGSQ
Good times.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/nasa-scientist-hansen-arrested-at-tar-sands-protest-a-grim-sign-of-the-times-102929/
@gayforcongress.bsky.social FD1 and @joshweil.bsky.social FD6 with staff are working hard talking with people daily.
I am hopeful from what I am hearing from them
I got to you late. I am over next to Gays district and I been keeping up on that. Saw you on a podcast or YouTube interview. It was really good and inspirational. Keep up the good fight!
https://bsky.app/profile/alliegata.bsky.social/post/3lky2ukeq7m2w
It seems like normal people immediately grasp this is not a thing a government would do unless it was Nazi!
Talk to people around you. You may be the best source of information they will encounter, like, at all.
A majority have no idea what’s coming.
I’m so convinced I’ve sold all my equities and staying in cash.
Bc if they know and don’t react then they are complicit 🤷♀️
For history
@ehunterchristie.bsky.social
They aren’t lazy — Their orgs are simply not built for a fire hose like this
But the more things are discussed (& the more primary source info is surfaced), journos will eventually see it & start to report on it
I just got off the phone with my Dad and I asked if the school out there will still be operational for my nieces.
He hadn't heard about the DoE.
I couldn't figure out how to say what was happening without sounding like a conspiracy theorist.
(Not saying they couldn’t do more. I more mean that there’s potential there too)
And, yes, it's been my experience too. People who I would expect to be more informed, not realizing just how bad this is. We need to do the media's job.
The news is censoring the coup. Anyone relying solely on mainstream media to be informed is anything but. No one is coming to save us.
Folks also feel an increased need for self-protection (focus on food, safety, etc) and I empathize.
Don’t know what to suggest to them, because the overwhelm and despair is real in this home.
I do know that I want them to NOT be ordered around and judged by those in the first group.
But they have no illusions about the cruelty possible in this nation. This feels different and dangerous, AND like more of the same.
(And eggs are pricey b/c of bird flu & price gouging. 💁🏽♀️)
What to do with that knowledge is the question. And I don’t always think it is an easy one to answer.
Smart, well-educated, good at their jobs people just aren't paying attention.
It's up to us to let them know by educating them and by MAKING SOME NOISE.
In tech there used to be many more activists before they all coincidentally got fired during layoffs
https://m.youtube.com/@MeidasTouch
Thanks!