It is our job right now to tell everyone less online than us that the U.S. is undergoing a coup intended to destroy democracy and subjugate the American people. - ThreadSky

faineg.bsky.social • 12 days ago

It is our job right now to tell everyone less online than us that the U.S. is undergoing a coup intended to destroy democracy and subjugate the American people.

Reposted from Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis

I know people on bluesky know what's happening. I'm telling you people offline don't. Maybe flier your neighborhood

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leafwarbler.bsky.social•12 days ago

I can tell you that what’s happening is a big topic of discussion in my STS class right now. My students won’t leave my classes with blinders on if I can help me.

leafwarbler.bsky.social•12 days ago

*help it* damn you autocorrect

mccar3.bsky.social•12 days ago

I’ve gotten into several “discussions” and I’ll be trying again tomorrow. It’s fucked.

parkerkosticak.bsky.social•12 days ago

Bring them here if you can. Warn them if not.

pamelab52.bsky.social•11 days ago

Stickers, magic markers

ahoycaroline.bsky.social•11 days ago

I think stickers might actually be the way! Get enough of them out there that people start talking.

cozybooksonly.bsky.social•12 days ago

Every time I see something enraging or feel despondent, I text a few acquaintances. If they don’t answer, fine, but at least they can’t say they didn’t know what’s going on.

cozybooksonly.bsky.social•12 days ago

I’m texting few friends in different states a day. I ask them to donate to Susan Crawford for WI Supreme Court and give them the link to her act blue. Another day I ask other ppl to donate to Gay Valimont in the Fl house race. Another day I ask a different set to sign the Indivisible https://nixthenoms.com

zur-en-arrh.bsky.social•11 days ago

I don't know about this. My coworkers are already getting tariffs on their small businesses. One guy just had to pay another $1200 to get his towels to his customers. Thanks to Trump, his words. But do the people in Congress know? They're just standing around.

hellzbelles.bsky.social•12 days ago

Yes. Even post to Facebook (still online but still). Facebook is overrun by our parents/aunts/uncles/old high school friends… and I promise you they are on Facebook everyday. So post. In social psychology this is called ‘priming’. Just plant seeds everyday.

hellzbelles.bsky.social•12 days ago

You don’t even need to post links if you’re posting to FB. Your MAGA republican aunt and uncle probably dont trust main stream media so don’t bother with links. Just post the truth in your own words, it will force them to google it. Ppl trust new info more if given to them by ppl they know vs dont.

kitforkat.com•11 days ago

Ugh does this mean I need to post more on Nextdoor?

onbluskysku.bsky.social•12 days ago

Ok this is true but also how do you do this on a flyer without sounding like a fucking crank

lindzbernell.bsky.social•12 days ago

lol it so hard. “An unelected foreign billionaire is exercising powers of the presidency in a way that is actually extraordinary and unconstitutional” sounds like the ravings of a mad man.

onbluskysku.bsky.social•12 days ago

I’m an attorney in Pennsylvania and the EPA just nuked our funding grant for air monitoring today and I can’t explain that to most people without them thinking I’m making it up

dotdotdot123.bsky.social•12 days ago

Think of it less like persuasion and more like advertising. "MAKING YOUR AIR DIRTIER FOR THEIR PROFITS" or some shit. You can put citations in small print. Calls to action on the back. Flashy images of flue stacks belching black smoke with translucent images of Musk and Trump.

It's a propaganda war

lindzbernell.bsky.social•12 days ago

lol but I am just an attorney I don’t have a degree in Adobe InDesign (I did have a journalism minor lol)

cop-watcher.bsky.social•12 days ago

markers work fine

onbluskysku.bsky.social•12 days ago

You know what though we have comms and designers on staff I’m going to talk to them about this tomorrow

hellonerds.bsky.social•12 days ago

Hold up. I’m a paralegal with a graphic design degree, I think we may have something going here

meggyweg.bsky.social•12 days ago

I put up a blog post about it on my blog that’s normally about missing persons. Explained about Musk and the Treasury Payments System.

lilysch.bsky.social•11 days ago

What if nobody wants to listen, nobody wants to hear it.😳

ravenlyn.bsky.social•12 days ago

MAGA is buying the fraud and inefficiency line.

fiftywords.bsky.social•12 days ago

It’s definitely what the sharpie thinks

troubadours.bsky.social•12 days ago

People don’t want to believe it because it’s hard & they’re fried. They know it when they feel it personally. We must reconnect people with community, caring & integrity. We must answer- What does it mean to be Human? What does it mean to be American? Human or AI? Democratic Republic or Kings?

ldea.bsky.social•11 days ago

They don’t believe me until they see it on television news. The good part with that is they’re not watching Fox anymore

nycommenter.bsky.social•12 days ago

We’ve been warning them about the threat to democracy for too long, they treat us like the boy who cried wolf 🤷🏼‍♂️

uwspete.bsky.social•12 days ago

Most people who you think are "less online" are people lying about how much time they spend online.

670rv.bsky.social•12 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/670rv.bsky.social/post/3lhx7anvtj22n

hoosierfw.bsky.social•12 days ago

The dems, progressive pacs should start running ads throughout the country especially in purple parts of the country.

zugernat.bsky.social•12 days ago

"Elon Musk has stolen all your data, and he controls the government" is a good way in, I think.

antineutrinos.bsky.social•12 days ago

The hard part is we’ve been made to distrust anything we read on line. If I bring up anything like this I get, oh it’s AI hallucinating. It’s fake news you can’t believe that. I don’t care if it’s about musk or the Lakers no one believes it unless their favorite news source agrees.

msrpaul.bsky.social•12 days ago

They did it to themselves in my bush AK village of 900 a few days before superbowl Sunday. Everyone was taking about it:

evadtsujevad.bsky.social•12 days ago

I talk to pretty much nothing but Trump supporters all day at work. I don't straight up tell them (I have a customer that does all the time and I love it) I wait for them to complain about prices or something and then blame it all on Elon. Works like a charm, no one likes Elon.

conjurial.bsky.social•12 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/conjurial.bsky.social/post/3lhxezu5gck25

lgbookworm.bsky.social•12 days ago

Not to mention pocket all the public resources that rightfully belong to the people

summerwindx.bsky.social•12 days ago

https://x.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1889479167781015966

sirobin.com•12 days ago

And keep hammering it home. People don’t want to admit what’s going on, and I get it, it’s scary to realize our democracy is crumbling. But they will start coming around.

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