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    20 hours ago

    Stop paying your taxes and buying shit? Violence? There I gave you a couple solutions go do 'em.

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      20 hours ago

      Cool, take care of my father with Alzheimer’s and I will get right to that.

      Good luck with his medical bills, I promise you, they are a struggle.

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        20 hours ago

        Exactly. You’ll always have an excuse to do nothing. Immediately going for the emotional excuse too! You expect change with no sacrifice just like every other person in this country. We watch day by day as Hitler Jr and his pals take away freedoms, rights, safety etc but your dad is what’s keeping you from fighting back… Yeah OK.

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          Uh, he needs 24/7 care, most of which I provide at present (I have to, ya know, work fulltime for food, utility bills and health insurance for medications).

          Despite your anger, I hope you do not end up in a situation like this. Enjoy, “freedom” while you can, it disappears in a variety of circumstances.

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            Oh fuck you acting like your situation is unique. No one is free in the US. You people prove day in and day out that you have no critical thinking skills and no fucking backbone. Good luck with you dad. Maybe when you have nothing left to lose you’ll wake up.

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          18 hours ago

          It’s easy to criticize. What are you doing to stop it? You should do more of that instead of wasting time being an asshole to people on the internet.

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          Upvoting all I can here. Like, they’re going to come for all your benefits, money, property eventually. Sticking your head in the sand is only gonna make it easier to kick your ass.

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            19 hours ago

            The downvotes are from people who know I’m right, but it makes them feel bad to think about.

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              19 hours ago

              The downvotes are from you being a jackass attacking the wrong people because of your own impotent frustration

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              No, all your suggestions will just accomplish nothing except get people who follow them into huge problem with zero gains.

              Not paying taxes, being violent, how is that a plan? Thats why the downvotes I think. You are just being angry and wanting change, but you also dont have a plan that will do anything. Just like everyone.

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      Not paying taxes will do nothing but get a persona arrested, and then the tax money would be taken anyway. This is the dumbest idea I’ve read yet.

      And violence… Cool, not a bad idea, but how? Do you think the average or even above average person can get anywhere near the POTUS for an assassination attempt? If an elected official is murdered in their house, that doesn’t change margins. A number of people would have to be killed at almost the same time or everyone goes into lockdown.

      Say for a second someone pops Trump. Then what? JD Vance, that’s what. Then another slew of Republicans to take control.

      Getting violent towards the likes of ICE is also great in theory, but that did happen, and it was over almost immediately. They are better armed than the militaries of some countries. Also, the US is a massive place. It would take me a day of driving to get to DC where currently their are weekend warriors playing army.

      All that to say, it’s not as simple as pinch your pennies and get violent. If it were, we wouldn’t be in this situation.

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      The issue is mainly coordination. One person acting is going to accomplish nothing while guaranteeing that this one person loses everything. Everyone needs to act at the same time. We need a leader to start a movement that everyone can get behind.

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        One of the reasons why I said an outside country or countries should help. Would go a huge way in helping to coordinate an effort and supply logistical resources.

        Unfortunately it seems that other NATO countries don’t know what’s good for them.

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      Cool, so have our social security, property, etc taken away by the IRS. And starve ourselves.

      And violence? Did you not read what I wrote earlier?

      These are beautiful ideas dude. Truly beautiful.

      I actually like the first one, not paying taxes. I actually already stopped doing that. That said, I cheated my ass off on my taxes to do it. I may get audited, I might not. But you’re still going to have an awful lot of Republicans paying taxes and a lot of other people who don’t want their property and social security, etc taken away.

      You want to hear what I think about this? If our supposed NATO allies would actually you know help us out, that would be fucking fantastic. We’ve known he was a Russian asset for a fucking decade, and none of our allies have done a damn fucking thing to help us.

      You want us to fight back? Do what the United States did with other revolutionary forces. Start sending money, start training insurgent groups, start arming people. Help us fight back.

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        If our supposed NATO allies would actually you know help us out, that would be fucking fantastic.

        “Everyone else needs to put their asses on the line! Not me!”

        No one’s coming to save you. Maybe ask the fascists to play nicer, I guess? It’s worked pretty well so far.

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          You realize that fascism isn’t exclusive to the US right? It’s actually spreading to other Western nations. If we don’t start helping each other, you are going to be just as fucked as we are. It’s only a matter of time. It would also serve NATO well to keep the strongest military in its alliance, in its alliance. Otherwise if world war three breaks out, well you guys are going to be pretty fucked.

          Maybe the smart response here isn’t just to say “no one’s coming to help you out”. Because that’s worked out pretty well for you so far…