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Jared Caraway's avatar

I saw the future when I was watching everything unfolding in Portland. We’re here. A general strike is desperately needed.

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irvn rynning's avatar

Start with boycotting the IRS FBI ATF and rejecting the barbarian mentality of tool like the tool Kotek and her pretend libertarian stance

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Laura Skov's avatar

2019 is the year I left the U.S. for Sweden, because I thought things were going the wrong way. What’s actually happened is so much worse than what I foresaw, and so much faster.

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Eric Newsome's avatar

Long-time follower here...

1) We hear you, and I was also angry-crying by the end. We need you to keep writing, and to keep writing, we need to keep existing, and to keep existing, we need whatever part of Laura keeps all the parts from spiraling out to care for the rest of you.

2) This is not the most consequential thing you have written (you haven't written that one yet).

3) You have been right all along about ending up here, from Cowboy, the dispatches, to this shitshow stage - which is worse than being wrong, but unfortunately lends itself to feeling like your darkest visions of future will also come true. But this isn't the end of everything, its just end of everything predictable. I take some ironic comfort from knowing there is only chaos ahead, because in chaos, all things are possible.

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Eric Newsome's avatar

Also - I'm sorry this post is too personal and will not be upset at all if you delete it, but I would have been upset with myself if I hadn't posted it.

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Trystan's avatar

We will persist just as the horrors do.

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irvn rynning's avatar

We can only hope so.. a country of fraud, bankruptcy, and some 37 TRILLION in debt is unsustainable — not to mention the one party statist ruling classes who reject liberty for government all up in everything

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Rachel Baldes's avatar

What do you suggest the sane residents in Democratic cities located in red states need to plan for? Or for that matter, the sane Americans living in red areas of both Blue and Red states? (Not that I'm assuming they need to do the same things, and a lot of what's most important to kmow about these areas is likely mostly known only to the folks who live there).

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irvn rynning's avatar

Start by not being democrats and agents of the authoritarian party of tools of the ruling classes — unsure how "sane" enters the qualification, since "democratic cities" loath liberty as much as any.

Try freedom

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