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if a "terrifying line is being crossed" every day, how does that affect you? Is each line a new horror? or do they all blur together?
If nothing is done when the line is first crossed, and that crossing then continues to happen on a daily basis, then it has just become the new normal.
As a Minnesotan, I can answer that
It's both
Most days the new line being crosses is horrifying. I remember the video of the doordash driver that hid in a customer's basement. Seeing the terror in her eyes. Hearing the homeowners crying and apologizing as they're forced to throw her to the wolves. That one hurt to watch. Deeply reminiscent of Nazis hunting for jews
Other events just leave me numb. Like Alex Pretti. It was objectively a huge line to cross, yet I felt so numb to it initially. Some days the mental fatigue is just too much
The war they're waging is a psychological one first and foremost. Do your best to stay strong and remember what's on the line
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I'm imagining the strategy of genuinely being Jill Stein and using a username like yours to 100% never be seen as actual Jill Stein. Like even if you said "I'm actually Jill Stein", nobody would believe you.
But then if you ever got actually found out, how it would change your image.
It's too bad this place doesn't have blue checkmarks. You could make a real legacy.
None of us can handle the "big picture", we are all at best familiar with just a small portion of the fuckery going on. There isn't enough time in the day
It's not even a "USA" thing. Wait until other countries figure out it's an international consortium of the super wealthy families and business interests that have been around since the slavery days!
They own Think Tanks and publish opinion pieces and studies all over the world, and own most of the modern media landscape, and trade practically everywhere in US dollars and more (each country is different, you tell me the country and I'll tell you how they subsidize or are subsidized by the USA-UK superfriends).
Check out the Panama and Pandora Papers for starters, and so much more.
They are not even vaguely US nationalist, they will drop the USA as soon as it is more profitable than not to do so.