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BlueTsunami2018

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4. You're still looking for the system to save us.
Sun Oct 5, 2025, 07:52 PM
Oct 5

It’s not going to. The system has failed. Congress isn’t going to do a damn thing about this, they’re in favor of it. They’re as much a part of the corruption as any one of those agencies.

When fascism takes over as it has, the only thing that can save us is us. And Americans just aren’t up to the task. We schedule our protests for fuck’s sake. We should be in the streets en mass right now. We should be shutting the country down with general strikes and demanding this government be removed. Peacefully at first and then doing whatever it takes.

But that isn’t happening and isn’t likely to happen. Not yet. Once everyone is starving and has nothing to lose we might finally see some real action. Until then it’s all just impotent fist shaking.

I really don’t think people quite understand what a dire situation we’re in.

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