VanillaFrosty

How this isn't abuse is beyond me. They'll screen about personal freedoms, but what about that poor child's personal freedom.

I hate that we let parents treat kids like property.

I have one friend went to school for veterinary medicine and zoology. He's now an endpoint engineer. I have another that went for his MBA and is now a butcher. I worked retail, never finished school, and now I'm a Desktop Support director.

Pick what you're interested in, pursue knowledge and growth over anything else. People mostly want hard workers who show they are able and willing to learn imo. A degree in anything shows that that.

Obviously this doesn't apply if you're persuing something high level in a specific field. But if you're lost as I am in this crazy world I think it's a solid choice lol.

They've circumvented due process. Even if you are a US citizen, when do you get a chance to prove it?

Hint: you don't

He literally already did. Legal US residents were shipped off to a concentration camp with no trial or due process. This is despite a judge ruling that he "can't."

He can. He did. He will again if we let him.

Liberals will always walk lockstep with fascists to prevent progressives from ever having a voice. Happened in Germany, happened in Turkey, most recently happened in France.

Neo-liberals are the evil they claim to fight. Just with rainbow pins.

Violent revolutions rarely work..

Are we ignoring nearly all of history? Take some time and see how man revolutions were possible without violence vs how many were. You have all of human history at your finger tips, for now at least.

History doesn't repeat but it certainly rhymes. If you're real and this is your true belief then you are not ready for what is coming.

The main takeaway I would hope people get from the idea (one that I heard from a forgotten source and then began using in the light of my own understanding I have to confess) is that we are living under a system that has been disproportionately and consistently shaped over much of its history by moneyed interests in various ways for the specific aim of winning the class war for the wealthy. That's what the system is doing, that is its purpose.

Another objection to “the purpose of a system is what it does” is that it implies that systems have purposes in the first place. Many systems don’t have a purpose because they were never designed. Ecosystems are the biggest example of this.

Talking more specifically about our political and economic systems, I think the ecosystem view is helpful. Believing that an elite have conspired over centuries to create a system which entrenches their interests is dangerous, conspiratorial thinking which most importantly does not lead in any positive direction.

It's not a conspiracy though. Political think tanks, lobbiests, SuperPACs all exist to shape politics and have more influence than any person. And they are all controlled by those with wealth. They've literally been shaping the country for themselves for decades.

50501 is very active, we're hitting the streets all the time. I've been at a demonstration almost every week for the past month and a half. Please, join us!

Edit: From one of my other comments in case you're uneasy about getting involved:

I don’t even like talking to people in the first place.

SAME SAME SAME. When I started confronting these [Trump supporters] people in my life my anxiety would flare up to the point my voice would shake lol. And I never in my life thought I'd be out marching in the streets.

It gets easier, but it takes practice (Prozac helps too). Now the anxiety has become anger. But not anger at them, rather anger at the system. Anger at what we let this country become. Anger at how lazy and complacent I've become.

Do your best, stay safe, and most important of all don't get scared. Get angry.

Lots of states allow private sales with no background checks required. People should see if they live in/near one.

If so hop on mewe, or some other social site, grab some cash and get you one! Gun shows are awesome for this too.

Man hopefully no one notices that most of the on board videos of people vandalizing Teslas are recorded about shin height from the back and sides of the car

People might be able to abuse that if they notice.

I don’t even like talking to people in the first place.

SAME SAME SAME. When I started confronting these people in my life my anxiety would flare up to the point my voice would shake lol. And I never in my life thought I'd be out marching in the streets.

It gets easier, but it takes practice (Prozac helps too). Now the anxiety has become anger. But not anger at them, rather anger at the system. Anger at what we let this country become. Anger at how lazy and complacent I've become.

Do your best, stay safe, and most important of all don't get scared. Get angry.

Great conversation, thank you for engaging with my points. It'd be a shame if all you did was post "gotcha's"," then smugly smiled to yourself since you totally showed me.

I find you annoying but I'll be out there fighting for the both of us all the same. Since we will end up in the same camp.

I genuinely mean this, you're not prepared for what's coming. Being a keyboard activist won't be enough. I hope we can both make it out the other side. Good luck.

Edit: Also I said I've been with two men. Only had sex with one. So, fuck off?

She was offering tax credits and small down payments to a population where 70% of people are paycheck to paycheck. While telling them everything is great.

She NEVER cared about the people