• Kühlschrank
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      Yeah the country has been an oligarchy for a lot longer than most people realize

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        yup. at least my entire life. fun thing is, i learned how to become an oligarch. i’m poor as fuck and am a local oligarch simply because i learned that the town’s historical society, not city council decides shit. so i started going to the historical society’s meetings and joined (a good quarter of the society worked with me running the homeless shelters and social services so i was more than welcome). now i have a major voice in how my town is run, just gotta show up once a month.

        fun thing, membership is free. you just have to show up. but no one does, so we decide what the town’s history is going to be.

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    It is moral to kill all dictators and those who attempt to become dictators.

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      I’d flip that around and say that it’s immoral not to.

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        “You ask what right do I have to take their lives, those who know their nature ask me what right do I have to let them live”

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    Lol Liberal? Democracy? The US hasn’t bean either of those for a long time now.

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    This might be an unpopular opinion, but fuuuck, at least give us until the midterms.

    Declaring this now just gives it more power to take hold.

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      Midterms will be either rigged or there will be a “state of emergency” or whatever.
      Seems like a lot of people forgot what happened and what almost happened on January 6th. I strongly doubt power will be handed over.

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      I do disagree. We have to take it back but I don’t see any value in pretending because we might reverse what has happened.

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      Electoral politics got us into to this mess. Neither party is very interested in getting us out of it.