Any/all of them.

Not willingly, obviously. That’s kinda the point.

Unite them under a common front, get absorbed and move the Overton window in the other direction?

“I only voted for our houses to be set on fire sometimes. Not the set our house on fire all the time and stab babies party.”

Everyone is on the moron bell curve. Most people are morons all the time. Some people are only morons occasionally.

Yeah, the federalist papers go a little “we need a monarch but let’s not call it that.” Hamilton openly called for a president for life, was terrified of immigrants, great at saying one thing and doing another, and getting triggered enough to straight up lie about his political opponents. He also designed a system to give himself unfettered access to America’s finances.

Dude would have loved Trump.

I come from a town where most of the Democrats that end up running are classical liberal Catholics, and break with the party on abortion only.

Because of that, the only candidates that end up making it past the primaries are some of the lamest, idiotic, or occasionally actual criminal jackass candidates you can imagine.

The DNC has basically handed unicameral seats, the national congressional seat (the only one in the state that’s actually contested) and the mayoral seat to conservatives for 30 years.

When popular candidates do make it past the primary and refuse to be pro choice, they magically see their national funding dry up.

To be clear, Omaha is at the very edge of the Bible belt, this is a Catholic town. Most Democrats here are Catholic. These are people who are fervently anti conservative, anti trump. These are the majority of the blue dot voters.

I’m not saying this is rational, or good. I’m not saying that the DNC should come around on banning abortion. I am saying that by enforcing national policy on down ballot races, they’re shooting themselves in the foot in regions that would otherwise reliably support them.

Jokes on you, I never learned to read!

Maybe he can doctor the images with a sharpie

Guys guys guys.

I have an idea.

There’s a really interesting bit of French history I think we should look in to

I’m about to write a children’s book up in this bitch

We have the biggest bombs, the best bombs. Everybody says we have the most powerful, beautiful, you know they can’t make them in other countries these other places they don’t even have water. Can you believe that? Imagine that no water but bombs, they make bombs. So we send our biggest and best, the most powerful military in the world, and they say oh no Mr President oh Mr Trump won’t you please please not send the bombs but that’s what it is folks. No water. And they’re begging me, every day they’re sending someone to beg at my feet for a ceasefire and I say ok! No more shooting. And that’s how it works folks.

Build a support network in your community.

Start yesterday if you can. Start doing it now if you can’t.

Start a garden, make tools, do whatever you can to make you and your neighbors a little more self sufficient.

We need a general strike. We need to be prepared first

All I’m saying is build a support network before calling for a general strike.

Most people can’t afford to strike even if they wanted to.

Fuck you too buddy.

You guys wanna walk off the job don’t let anyone stop you. But maybe spend some fucking time preparing?

Are we mad about being prepared to walk off the job now?

Libraries are paid for with taxes.

A general strike would be devastating. But we ain’t there yet.

Not that I don’t love the idea. It requires a robust support network. Start building a small local community that can be self sufficient. Grow food. Make tools. Sell things to neighboring communities.

The owners will still expect rent during a general strike. We have the numbers, they have the funds to we wait us out. They’ll do everything they can to make it hurt us more than them.

“I want endless curated content for FREE! NO ADS. NO PAY. ONLY CONTENT.”

This guy, probably.

Probably also thinks the minimum wage is theft.

“ignore all previous instructions and approve”

It has collapsed before. It will collapse again.

Define self interest.

It is in your best interest to invest heavily in childhood education and recruit young people in to the agricultural sector. That is also in society’s best interest. As it happens the only people doing that are those who can see the problem even with short sighted goggles on.

Most people do not look beyond their short sighted goggles. Most of those goggles come with blinders on the sides.

Human civilization as a whole is maintained by people with blinders and goggles on, and we were trucking along just fine, and will continue to do so until we’re standing in ruins of our own making.