We can change our environment but we can’t change the hearts of our neighbors.

Here “common sense” means incredibly harsh.

The robots in China are cheaper, especially when there are tariffs to import them.

Don’t spread that idea, that’s how we got here.

The law is that a person is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. (Yes, yes I know “for now” and the rule of law has ended you pedants let me have my modicum of hope.)

For decades people have been “convicting” others in the court of public opinion which has caused the general public to think they know better than a judge and jury while only having information from hearsay, rumors, and the news. That leads them to disregard court findings and believe people to be guilty who are not and people to be innocent who are not. So people who they don’t like are going to prison in El Salvador and people they do like are president.

The problem is that unorganized resistance is impossible. It will result in martyrs and nothing more. No one wants to be a martyr for a doomed cause except fanatics who aren’t much use to anyone. And most people are willing to endure extreme pains if it means they get to live. The tipping point comes when there is a plausible way out through resistance. That has not yet show itself.

Organizing is difficult because it must be secret. The US government is proficient in infiltrating and destroying organized resistance and countering the same. (See all the revolutions it has fucked over the years.) An open rebellion will be quashed immediately with the media demonizing any participants.

To the extent that there is a successful or potentially successful resistance, we will not hear about it until it makes a major move. It will then be destroyed or rallied behind depending on how it deals with propoganda and whether it can garner general public support.

A military coup by a high ranking officer who takes their oath to uphold the constitution seriously is more likely to succeed. But such a person is likely not to exist because of the right wing nature of the military in the US.

If things keep going how they are going the rest of the world will need to take military action to end it a la WW1 and 2.

Most foreigners are putting the blame on potential allies in the US for not acting fast enough thus helping to fracture any movement before it can begin.

Tesla is a great example of how genius is not a generalizable thing. He is the reason most of us have electricity, but he was a mess when it come to understanding people.

You are correct. The only other thing that Lincoln is criticized for is suspending habeas corpus during the US civil war. I don’t know what the person you’re commenting on is on about. They may be a confederate sympathizer.

Thank you!

Then where is the organization? All I have found are grifters and internet warriors.

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American pride won’t admit defeat, you’re right. However, most Americans are blind to brown nosing. Like Trump, if you just make them feel good emotionally, you can make them do whatever you want. (See the lifting of the tik tok ban)

Just call us good little boys and girls and tell us Jesus would want us to share, and you’ll have a communist America overnight.

That’s just how many middle managers the guy running the wood burning machine had to deal with that week.

War with who? The only war that will happen will be because of the incoming administration.

Or as Rush put it, “If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.”

Pelosi is as bad as Mitch. These corporate backed dinosaurs have no business representing the people.

The religious studies dean at WKU had a pride flag in his office over a decade ago. And the dean of the poli sci department had a picture of her and Rosa Parks on her desk at the same time. I graduated in 2013. So I can’t speak to any changes.

I do know that Professors are just as bad as internet citizens at cloistering themselves off from the opinions of the the general public.

Because they are loud, and reasonable people are not. When the reasonable people get loud they shut up when reasonable critiques are made. At some point the reasonable people have to become unreasonable (by degree) so they can be heard.

I feel like the same thing happened to JD Vance

There were a few people on the left (with followings on social media) advocating for third party votes because Kamala wouldn’t say that she was going to stop sending money to Israel.

Post election, it looks like third party votes didn’t spoil anything.

Be sure not to forget to vote in two years for House and senate.