newrootsinme.bsky.social
Farming through the apocalypse in backwoods Maine. Leftist, not liberal. Rural crafts enthusiast, maker of things. Never enough time in a day
Not NAFO or Red/BlueMAGA tolerant. The purpose of a system is what it does. Electoral politics brought us here
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The implications of this are bleak AF. A murder-suicide mindset.
Conservative sister admitted yesterday that Trump is doing P2025 and revoking habeus corpus only produces bad outcomes. A collapse under dominionist techno-theocracy is a worst-case scenario most can't imagine
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From the perspective of capital, "enslaved" is the most efficient thing a person can be. And, since our Federal Branch of Sabotage Destruction & Punishment is opposed to all other kinds of efficiency imaginable, I'd must conclude that it is enslavement that it means when it talks about efficiency.
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There are +750 US billionaires. Pretending like all our problems stem from foreign billionaires is deflecting from the problem. We've seen them buy the SC, Congress, and the WH. Not defending Putin, but we have enough evil mosters right here at home
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The rules are different at the top. The people caving aren't being threatened with the same physical violence us peons get threatened with, the violence of the rich involves $. They're folding to protect their wealth
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They're slowly boiling us frogs. Taking out foriegn born leadership of opposition movements and normalizing people being disappeared while also quietly ignoring courts. Pushing, but not hard enough to elicit a strong backlash
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Lmao oh, you're not just MAGA-proudly ignorant you're also obnoxious?!? What a treat!
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So the truth is just too scary to spend 3 minutes reading Wikipedia?!? Lmao best of luck to you
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Whole internet at your fingertips, bro.
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On a tangential note I was reminded of earlier: CD3WD project. ~900 technical documents about sustainable development for the 3rd world. Everything from community heath to education to ag processing. It doesn't all apply to us but there's a lot of solid info
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See also "lobbying"
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Have fun but I've seen this episode before. I hope I'm wrong, but I find it best to expect the worst wrt these ghouls. Your mileage might vary
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I have daypacks and backpacking packs. I'll have to find the brand on some but some are Lowe Alpine, Arcteryx. My idea is varied by scale/possible duration of emergency. Daypack is 3 days worth except H2O. Bigger packs are limited by food, fuel, H2O. I keep all that sort of gear in 2 footlockers
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With range and accuracy to be well outside reasonable awareness. You'd never evwn hear the shot. So, I don't worry about that bc like an asteriod, there's no solution. Raiders consuming the supplies in a widening area under constant attrition/turf war = not viable very long
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I find thinking through scenarios before living them helps me considerably. Having an idea of how to get through it without the added stress of living it gives you so much more flexibility. I refer to your point about militias as the "sniper paradox". Millions of rifles in US 1/
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Lmao y'all are still using this BS excuse after leftists have correctly predicted political outcomes? Sounds like you're just repeating what highly paid propagandists have told you to think and not how things actually work but it's working great so keep it up, genius
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Kneecapped while Manchin kept his committee chair and his wife got, and kept, her appointed position she wasn't qualified for? Lol you REALLY need to be more critical of those in power
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IDGAF. Dems blew $1B in 100 days and it's no secret they weren't trying to spend it wisely
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Uh, they don't need $ to do the goddamned jobs they were hired to do. Why is this so fucking incomprehensible for liberals?
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Did you fucking sleep through the GOP obstructing everything for the last 16 years?!? There's a game plan already established. Them doing nothing is a policy choice
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Lmao if you pass legislation that directly and materially helps the working class you don't need billionaires. That's the part these talking points are designed to deflect away from
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Ah, so only institutional power is allowed a seat at your table. How very exclusionary and bougie of you. Your attitude is how we got here. You hate the left more than the right, exacrly like you've been trained
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OK, what about the cause of CU, which is the decades-long publicly laid out RW plan to take over the judiciary and then the gov. Why did Dems at no time derail that?
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*That was a Navy report on war with China.
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If you want to see how the US has 1 short hot war left in it I suggest the Navy's report from May '24 (iirc) that they'd be out of weapons in 2 weeks. Weapon stockpiles *and* production are LOW. That 1st Tomahawk strike on Yemen was over a year's production for ~100 missiles
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I have a friend in Appalachia on SNAP and lives in a csmper with wife and 2 kids who bitches about people on SNAP being lazy. Just dumb
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Yep. To be fair, Republicans hate just about every part of society, except the parts that benefit them
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Nobody has a clue what policy is now after the OMB rescinded their memo, but the WH says the EO stands and will be enforced. Medicaid and HUD portals still reported to be down
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I think the courts are no longer going to be viable routes for justice in the US
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While this is obviously a problem, I think seeing how many arms shot up in the audience is good to know
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We're in a polycrisis. IMO, this is the oligarch's managing collapse in their favor. The last stage before a collapse sees insiders and oligarchs loot the treasury and steal anything they can. None of them are smart or skilled enough to pull off something this complex
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I feel like we all need to come up with ways to be sand in the gears. This is bigger than Trump or Musk, it's systemic and they're just symptoms so its the system we need to fight. We need to lean into anything that impedes the system, especially things that could just be "accidents" or incompetence
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That's their native language
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Feel free, but recognize the futility of the effort by not putting any real hope into something that hasn't ever really worked as advertised. You can't vote out fascism and after the past year of enthusiastic genocide and repression, Dems are showing they're 100% fascist, too
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IDK. *All* of the proper channels we are supposedly able to use are completely disconnected from actual power and change. The first step is recognizing the problem. The system is already failing, hence rising fascism to protect the status quo
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Uh, no. They rejected that in 2016, co-opted progressive policies in 2020, then told the left to STFU and FOAD for 4 years. Now they're saying they need to move right. Take the hint before you waste more time. Electoral politics in the US is a dead end. Both parties are owned by capital
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I mean Jeffries just said we need to beat our swords into bipartisan plowshares and Schiff just said he's looking forward to working with Trump. Fetterman. Dems are already unmasking
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If y'all could just wake TF from the propaganda it would really make this easier but y'all spent the last 4 years believing Biden was gonna hold the GOP accountable and despite none of that happening y'all still believe. This country is cooked
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Being civil in the face of systemic evil has worked out so well, you definitely should continue playing by rules your enemies set 👍. You're obviously still of the delusion that Dems oppose the GOP despite decades of them literally NOT obstructing a public plan to take over
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Ah, another stupid chart bro trying to convince the working class that we're actually wrong about our bank balances bc of a fucking graph that clearly doesn't measure real world metrics. Keep up the tone deaf punching down and not listening, it's working great!
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Literally record homelessness in 2023 (+13%) and 2024 (+18%) and these POS are trying to tell us it's a personal failing and not systemic
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So it's fine for leaders to take credit for good things but bad things are never their fault? It sure AF is Biden's fault simply bc his admin and paid SM voices spent 4 years telling us we were wrong about out bank account balances.
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Trump's declaring ownership of Epstein's turf
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Every metric that matters to the already comfortable, but not for the rest of us. Y'all are *extremely* tone deaf on the working class across the political spectrum telling you that whatever TF these economists are measuring doesn't reflect reality
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That's NAFO for you
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It's an action movie apocalyptic tidal wave of different messes so there's a lot coming at us all at the same time. It's a lot to take in and I know I'm nowhere near informed on it. Too easy to get analysis paralysis when time is short
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The deregulation is truly one of the scarier parts of the GOP's plan bc it makes it so that nothing you buy is of a known safety, quality, is what it's advertised to be, or eventually getting anything at all for them taking our $