No. Jokes are funny. Its that thing fascists do where they say it was a joke if you call them on their shit.

Maybe we shouldnt rely on the state, give them the fruits of our labor, or respect their enforcers?

Maybe these occupying armies in our cities should be looked upon less favorably?

Maybe judges should be afraid someone will find out where they live, and congressmen should be really skittish?

See, the idea of obeying the government because its the right thing to do only makes sense when the government is a pooling of collective resources for collective good, and stuff at a scale it would be a bother to fund/organize individually. It only makes sense when the government is yours. Is for your benefit.

I’ve only met the beneficiaries of this government a couple times. I thought about guillotines every moment of those interactions.

You think it ever wasn’t him?

your machine

Thats what they said.

No but see also not that.

Okay, thats more like it; ‘personally fuck them up up wherever I see them’!

Now start thinking about how.

Every allegation a fascist makes is a confession. I was not being vague.

1a the law, sane republicans

The Law Is Not A Magic Spell. It’s a set of agreements enforced by violence. All the enforcers are fanatical fascists. And the last sane republican I know of died in February 2012. He hadn’t voted for president this century. If those were still a thing; we wouldnt be in this position.

1b: the law, sane republicans

So, still not a magic spell. I’m afraid you dont know how cultists, social conformity, or sunk costs work. They’re going to have endorsed the horrible things that happen here. They can’t accept culpability for that. You know what they say;

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

Or something.

2

The coup failed because hisbpeople were profoundly incompetent and mostly senile. You’ll notice the police and military dispatchers we suspiciously slow that day. It was just the poor rubes already on the ground there responding to this shit. The courts largely declined to ounish abuobe involved; all thd s um eho organized it got off clean, and even the worst of the nazis on the ground got milder sentences than any ive seen for juat being near someone who broke a window in 2020. What does any of this have to do with primaries? Why would they hold a primary?

Okay, but consider youre an 18 year old trans man trying to get validation for his gender, or an 18 year old trans woman trying really hard to repress and deny she’s that. Is that still a minus?

‘Endure’

Okay but when the death squads come that advice isn’t going to help much. Reads as kind of a dodge.

Again, why are you replying ic not to engage with what I’m saying? You’re just trying to insult(?) me so you don’t have to, but you could have just clicked past my reply. That shows either my previous content was correct, or you’re really profoundly lonely and are using this platform in leiu of human intimacy. No judgement if it’s that second one; shit can be pretty grim out there.

Sorry, how are trans people solipsistic? Or a cult?

You may have just saved america.

People radicalized to insane culture war bullshit and irrational solipsistic oblivion cults can’t really be negotiated with.

Institutions will never fix anything.

Intense atomization and alienation keep us from creating society with one another. There’s no time to do anything complicated; most of us work too much. You just get home and youre exhausted.

So; gun.

If only we actually used them as a solution.

Look, if we had vaccine guns, I’m pretty sure the anti vax movement would switch overnight.

Edit: There would be pro-cdc paramilitary snipers on every roof. It would get tedious.

is our food safe

Yes, as long as the water holds. I have 200 lbs of rice and veggies in every window. Should supplement me enough to survive. Might be enough to share out.

Edit: oh shit, you meant supermarkets? Lol, no. That shit’s gonna rot I’m the fields, unless we use slave labor.

1. How? Why?

2. Do you not remember last time? And why do you think losing an election will keep a loyalist out of power?

Other ideas? Please? Its not just your life on the line here. We’re kind of all in this. Whatcha got?

Are you going to engage with my ideas, or try to discredit me by… Saying I’m getting an education?

I’m confused as to what your argument is here. My best guess is that what I said resonated with you enough to make you uncomfortable, and youre trying to discredit me so you dont have to think about it.

And I get that. I get trying to stay comfortable, I get trying to cling to what you have and what’s worked to keep it in the past, but we no longer have that luxury. Do not rely on the ‘law’ to protect you. Start looking at alternatives. I know its scary, I know its new, and I know it might require change, but its what we need to get through this. Maybe what you find will end up enriching you long term, if you survive. Change isn’t always bad.