this post was submitted on 17 Feb 2026
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Your option is a collective action. Mine is individual. These are not mutually exclusive. But I cannot do a collective action on my own. I don’t have a guillotine but I can afford airfare out and I don’t need to rely on actions of others to take the individual action.
You must have a lot of confidence in democracy in the US to do right by the people. I’ll leave this quote here:
“In the United States, the political system is a very marginal affair. There are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of the same party, the Business Party.”
-- Noam Chomsky (1990)
Ew, quoting Chomsky the nonce