Acts of Subtle Subversion

This morning, rather belatedly -- due to holiday guests and whatnot -- I read through this thought-provoking post by Mark from Queens.

As is usual for this site, the comments add to the post's richness.

Since reading, I've become intrigued with the idea of how we, as individuals, can work to counter the PsyOps, the BS propaganda, the misinformation, and the straight-up fake news propagated by -- yep -- "the Left." How, in the face of massive, coordinated, moneyed attempts to control our minds, can we cut through the noise and actually reach people? How can we effect revolution without actual bloodshed?

I believe MfQ is working on a longer essay to address this question, and offer concrete suggestions. In the meantime, today's post from gjohnsit sparked my creative juices.

I -- after reading this transcript of Aaron Mate's interview of Luke Harding -- am going to figure out a way to paste, or write in, the link to it on the title page of Harding's book. Maybe even insert a printed version of it in some way that it won't fall out or be lost.

Maybe it's silly, but these days, maybe it might reach some people. What could we do to copies of "What Happened?"

What other ideas do C99 members and readers have?

Let's get something started!

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WaterLily's picture

And am therefore loathe to visit it and post a negative review that includes a link to the interview. But that could also be an effective action.

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riverlover's picture

Hell, I have not walked into the Walmart here, ever. I am not physically fit, but monkeywrenching may be the way to do. Burn down DC? Whatever, directed actions. A lighthouse effect, illuminating bad actors against people. It turns with time.

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Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.

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in you haven't seen it. Zeese and Flowers have been involved in the professional left activist circuit, traveling around to conferences and other events, taking donations, and trying to organize things similar to Occupy, which they were involved in from the start. I don't necessarily agree with their approach but it's pretty close to what most here advocate.

https://popularresistance.org/newsletter-preparing-for-the-coming-transf...

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Alligator Ed's picture

@Big Al The link suggests that we (the 99%) cognitively organize an assault of the 1%. It won't work. It never has. People are motivated by emotion, not reason. Reason is the icing on the cake but not the cake. The beginning of change may be conceived by a small and reasonable (i.e., rational) group of people. Yet the momentum needed to continue the overthrow of the existing regime will be fueled by raw emotion: hunger, hate, anger.

Sitting around a conference table with microphones and bottles of water produces only hot air. The real action comes from small rooms filled with intense individuals, capable of stirring EMOTION into the desired direction of change.

Utopia means "without a place". By definition, utopia can never exist. One cannot replace "something" with "nothing", which is what utopia is, pious dream of what shall ever remain "nowhere".

A people-directed popular uprising, not co-opted by other power groups for their own selfish purposes (see Women's March) will never succeed. Ghandi succeeded only because Britain's management of India became more costly than the Empire could bear and were unwilling to commit military force when so depleted by WW2.

Some may call my approach hard-hearted or non-empathetic. I call my approach (and others here agree) acknowledgment of historical reality. Many empires have come and all have gone. Ours is tottering, weakened from within and without. What the final blow will be is hard to know but it will NOT be an altruistically-based popular uprising. It will be driven by a small group of determined individuals, either foreign, or more likely domestic, unafraid to inflict pain and damage on their opponents, no matter how much popular support such an overthrow can accrue.

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@Alligator Ed Power to the People.

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@Alligator Ed

It had to be upsetting the PTB or why else was the police response to break it up so organized? Mayors all over the country worked with the DHS to make it go away. I'm betting that some people in high positions didn't want the attention to the bank bailouts. The Vietnam protests were also effective on bringing the war to an end.

Whatever happens will need enough people working together so that they won't be ignored. I think that big enough boycotts can work, but again, a lot of people have to be involved in it. Hillary was concerned about the BDS movement against Israel as are some members of congress. I think that there are a few ways that we can get our government's attention.

Arizona is also making laws against who can be punished if they are doing it.

ARIZONA CONTRACTOR REFUSES TO CERTIFY HE WON’T BOYCOTT ISRAEL, SUES OFFICIALS

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@Alligator Ed Ghandi succeeded only because Britain's management of India became more costly than the Empire could bear and were unwilling to commit military force when so depleted by WW2.

In other words, Gandhi was smart enough to see an opportunity when his means could work, and availed himself of it.

Different from "those means never work."

I agree that those means won't work in our time and place. Not because the American Empire is not teetering and overextended, but because the American Empire is not the Empire that counts. The Empire of Money is the empire that counts. It just uses the American Empire as its arsenal and barracks.

The Empire of Money is also teetering and overextended, but those who run it have crafted a perfect impenetrable mental bubble around themselves where everything's fine as long as they always get their way. It doesn't even matter if the biosphere collapses. Doesn't matter if there's a nuclear war. Apocalypse is fine. When you're in the mindset that doesn't give a shit how bad the consequences get as long as you get your way, your empire will never collapse, because you simply won't acknowledge that it has.

With that adamantine lunacy and a sufficiently large and technologically advanced military (including surveillance/secret police types), your empire will never fail. Well, it will, but everyone will be dead when it does, so you win.

It's not that populist revolutions, even ones initially driven by rational people--hell, even ones where rationality continues to have a significant impact on what happens--never have worked or have always been shit, or whatever. It's that last century the elites got too much of a technological advantage over the people. It doesn't matter that we have piles of handguns, rifles, shotguns, even military guns. They have LRADs and drones and weaponized microwave and even conventional bombs if they don't mind messing up the physical infrastructure. And they have surveillance that will allow them to stomp any revolution as soon as it pokes its head up. That was the last piece they were waiting for, and by the late 90s/early oughts they got it.

All that remains for them is to not give a shit that they are engineering a massive collapse that will take down everything they built along with everything they didn't. Psychopathy in place? Check.

That's what makes populist revolution impossible; a combination of terrible historical conditions specific to the latter half of last century and everything after.

The best thing we can do is to make ourselves as independent of the bullshit and as flexible and sustainable as possible, and to make connections as strong as we can with as many like-minded individuals as we can, and thus put ourselves into a position to be more likely to 1)survive longer and better, and 2)take action if an opportunity arises. That opportunity, and that action, won't look like traditional populist revolution.

As for countering the psy-ops, I'm more concerned, at this point, with people keeping independent minds when they have them, and not falling to the bullshit, than I am with turning that into a populist revolution. And creating spaces, where we can, for those people to gather and be sane together.

That's where I'm at. The Temporary Autonomous Zone place. Or the Semi-Permanent Autonomous Zone place.

That's not revolution, and it's not utopia. Perhaps it's too utopian for a hard-nosed version of history, but given how things are going, anything positive whatsoever could be lumped into the category of "you're too idealistic."

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

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@Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal in my opinion. I have thought this way for a while. However, all this grand weaponry will not prevail against a vast internal guerrilla war with the so-called civilian weapons. Plus plenty of motivated arms merchants and other external enemies will be happy to supply the rebels with means to make the guerrilla insurgency more painful to the central government.

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@Alligator Ed There would need to be a lot of help from inside.

That's why the establishment created the "Insider Threat" program, and why they're so hard on people like Aaron Swartz with high levels of digital skill and low levels of conformist, authoritarian thinking.

And that's all I'm gonna say about that.

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

Mark from Queens's picture

and others on my bookshelf today, looking for stories of subversive tactics. Of course there were many riotous and inspiring ones in his book. Also looking at Gene Sharp. Started to add to the notes of my draft.

Without getting too far into it (because I'm too tired from another long day of infants) I would just like to put one simple idea forth tonight. And it's one that the cynic may sneer and be dismissive of, but I think anyone of us can and should do more of because it starts conversations: that is, to start wearing political t-shirts and buttons on jackets and putting radical bumperstickers on our cars.

Staying away from partisan stuff is suggested. Find your local LW bookshop or look online. Just generic statements that speak to the 99%. For example I have a bumpersticker on my car that says "Corporate Plan For America: Loot It And Leave It." Who could disagree with that, except for a CEO? (Remind me to tell you the story of coming across a West Virginian with a long beard standing at his pickup truck that had a rifle perched across the back window, looking at my motorcycle and my helmet covered with political stickers.)

Get a OWS-style pin that says "We Are The 99%" or just "99%," and let people ask you about it. Tell 'em it's an acknowledgement that the 1% control everything in our lives, including our government, and we have no collective power when we're divided into Dem vs. Rep, Red/Blue, Con/Lib. "Healthcare For All" or "Tax The Rich." Socialist Alternative sells a t-shirt that mimics the Drumpf campaign which says, "Make Socialism Great Again."

I have a stack of t-shirts with political statements, and wear them according to what the zeitgeist of the news is that week or lately. The week of the #GOPTaxScam passing, I wore one of my many OWS shirts to the gig I was playing which says, "End Corporate Welfare, and Maybe We Can Get People Off Welfare." Two people purposely came up to me at the end of the show to earnestly thank me for wearing it.

These small acts let people know they're not alone - and that's hugely important. You'd be surprised at how many people will be in agreement with you and give you at least a nod or smile, if not be hungry for the kinds of conversations we have here at C99.

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"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:

THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"

- Kurt Vonnegut

joe shikspack's picture

@Mark from Queens

i think the yippies will provide an abundant source of organizing ideas.

personally, i lean towards the formation of an art and cultural movement that points to obvious moral truths about wealth, politics, inequality and exploitation.

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@joe shikspack
for starts.

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

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@Mark from Queens Simple to implement, and indeed sparks reflection and conversation.

I kind of love "Make Socialism Great Again" and might have to buy one!

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@WaterLily
in my neck of the woods on the St. Lawrence river, second home of riverlover. If he didn't start "Save The River" he joined that effort early on. He went by another name, and most locals didn't know his true identity until his death. Abbie always the activist, didn't give a damn about the "fame."

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the little things you can do are more valuable than the giant things you can't! - @thanatokephaloides. On Twitter @wink1radio. (-2.1) All about building progressive media.

Meteor Man's picture

What follows is for those who want to change the world from what it is to what they believe it should be. The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.

Here's a discussion:

http://www.openculture.com/2017/02/13-rules-for-radicals.html

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"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn

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@Meteor Man And how true this is:

political activism cannot be a self-serving enterprise: “People cannot be free unless they are willing to sacrifice some of their interests to guarantee the freedom of others. The price of democracy is the ongoing pursuit of the common good by all of the people.”

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@Meteor Man

Thanks! While it's all important, personally, I especially like the following bits, with one caveat, at top.

From your link:

http://www.openculture.com/2017/02/13-rules-for-radicals.html

Saul Alinsky’s 13 Tried-and-True Rules for Creating Meaningful Social Change
in Politics | February 21st, 2017

... 4. “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules.
5. “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.
6. “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.” They’ll keep doing it without urging and come back to do more. They’re doing their thing, and will even suggest better ones. ...

The problem with 4. nowadays is, of course, that TPTB, et al, don't follow even their own claimed rules, (never mind reality,) and rely upon pacifying the public with the endlessly recycled Big Lie and other such propagandist tactics supported by a carefully consolidated self-interest-controlled corporate media which has also bribed/bullied/blackmailed once-independent media into compliance with the talking points of the day.

Bu they do indeed detest ridicule, especially since they rely upon conning the population into accepting their false premise that the rich and powerful in and/or controlling politics have some actual right to abuse, dispossess and control others. Pulling back the curtain and revealing the all-pathological-ego little men behind the mysterious curtain - who are nothing without the (carefully framed to be admiring) mystique of massive piles of data-dot money buying them policy/political influence and immunity not intended to exist within democracy, much of this bizarrely huge accumulation of wealth often having been drained from others and 'saved' by 'cost-cutting' measures destroying human and environment health - explodes this myth. Their greatest fear is our realization that they are nothing against the world they have declared war upon and that the power of the people will be rediscovered globally and used to save ourselves from their lawless and destructive hostile corporate/military take-over.

And he's right, it's fun, something the whole family can enjoy.

I really like Saul Alinsky and wish we had more like that. They're needed now, more than ever.

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Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.

A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.

A remarkable article describing the most frightening aspect of the Russia-gate mania was published on Truthdig today. Very worthwhile: https://www.truthdig.com/articles/dont-talk-talk-russian-hacking/

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@Bring Back Civics thanks for that link.

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@Bring Back Civics From the linked article:

“#the resistance” was the label Clintonites appropriated within a few days of the election. Mainstream Democrats have begun to use the word “progressive” to apply to a platform that amounts to little more than preserving Obamacare, gesturing toward greater income equality and protecting minorities. This agenda is timid. It has nothing to say about challenging the influence of concentrated capital on policy, reducing the inflated defense budget or withdrawing from overextended foreign commitments; yet without those initiatives, even the mildest egalitarian policies face insuperable obstacles.

Show that to any Hillbot--you get gaze aversion or screams that you are a Russian puppet.

Hillbots are brainwashed into reverence to a false god, Neoliberalism and its high priestess, Queen Hillary the Nonce. This subspecies of humanity will disappear upon the demise of high priestess and the lack of rejuvenating power (money) from donors tired of supporting an incompetent acolyte of an anti-humane religion.

Will the "revolution" be won through a slow attrition? Perhaps. Many people will suffer and die in the wait. Subtle subversion is fertilizer. Strong stances backed by vigorous action are needed to topple the decayed tree of the "American Dream".

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There is a Paul Wellstone Center for training progressive activists:

Founded to carry forward the work of Paul and Sheila Wellstone, we arm progressives with the strategies and skills to win. We develop political leaders. We strengthen movement organizations. We ignite change.

https://www.wellstone.org/impact

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"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn

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and initiative process. Former Senator Mike Gravel started the project a number of years ago which is still active to those interested in participating. I'm trying to summarize the details and possibilities as well as steps forward. I'll provide a link to that when it's published.

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...toilet, says a prominent activist to Medea Benjamin. Oh, yeah, how I can relate to that.

But Medea Benjamin is able to find ten good things about this year.
Ten Good Things About a Terrible Year.

I am still undecided if that article helps or not.

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@mimi
"This Is What Pseudo-Democracy Looks Like"

First few paragraphs of Norman Solomon's:

Oligarchy prevents democracy. That explains the gist of why the United States became more undemocratic in 2017.

With vast income inequality and corporate power, this country’s oligarchy keeps consolidating itself—largely hidden in plain sight—normalized and embossed on the wallpaper of mass-media echo chambers. Several decades of ominous trend lines have brought us to dire tipping points.

“In the American republic, the fact of oligarchy is the most dreaded knowledge of all, and our news keeps that knowledge from us,” historian Walter Karp wrote. “By their subjugation of the press, the political powers in America have conferred on themselves the greatest of political blessings—Gyges’ ring of invisibility.” Those words appeared in 1989.

Nearly 30 years later, the power of billionaires, huge banks and Wall Street over U.S. politics is far more dominant, while a propaganda fog diverts attention from their antidemocratic leverage. An array of news media (including big “public” outlets like NPR) and corporate politicians, unwilling to acknowledge let alone challenge the reality of an oligarchy in the United States, love to point accusatory fingers elsewhere.
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Days before the end of 2017, I googled the phrase “American oligarchs” and found that it appeared scarcely one-tenth as often as “Russian oligarchs.” Yet the gravest injuries and threats to democracy in the USA are overwhelmingly coming from massively capitalized individuals and corporations at the top of the U.S. power structure.

Oligarchs like Sheldon Adelson, Jeff Bezos, Charles Koch, David Koch, Robert Mercer and Rupert Murdoch are wielding enormous power at many levels of the political economy and social zeitgeist, while corporate America functions with expanding latitude and increasing impunity. The extreme concentrations of wealth and economic power equal extreme concentrations of political power.

That's the real fight, the one we're being divided and conquered and distracted from.

And that's our job, to keep people re-focused on the brilliance of the simple Occupy message, framing it as the 1% vs. the 99%.

After Occupy I began to carry on my person a Magnum (I think it is) black Sharpie. I suggest everyone get one and carry it around. It's almost like having a can of spray paint, without the bulk, sound and spray to deal with. It amazingly wields a surprisingly wide swath on most all surfaces. You can get it at one of those corporate behemoths (which I hate) but will make an exception because shot of an art supplies store, I don't know where else to get one that size.

At some point I just didn't care anymore if I was on camera in this hideous Orwellian surveillance state, and would imagine how ridiculous it would be for them to spend all this energy and time trying to find someone who wrote a message that many themselves would probably agree with and what I would say if hauled in. I'd give my defense of what a dystopian world we've been forced into by greedy entities who control everything and reduced government to playground for the rich to get richer, and offer to clean it off myself. Go ahead and fine or ticket me. It wouldn't be a deterrent. I would answer the way Lynn Stewart did and how I did when a cop asked me "Would you do it again?," as I went to collect my bag and computer from a precinct I was taken to during the massive protest of the 2004 RNC Convention in NYC, before being shuttled to two different detention halls (including a bus depot on the West Side in which people were forced into tight groups on filthy floors full of oil and grease, which of course there was a lawsuit suing the Bloomberg admin and NYPD, who incidentally as a tag team racked up massive amounts of money hemorrhaged during their fascist reign) over an 18 hour jailing that ended with a stint, alongside hundreds and hundreds of others, at the infamous Tombs prison downtown. I looked that cop in the eye and never hesitated, "Yes, I would."

Get bold. Scrawl messages on the front windows of banks, subway cars, restrooms, gas station pumps, walls, over corporate logos. I like "Corporate Welfare Recipient" on banks. "Tax The Rich" or "#BlackLivesMatter" or "We Are the 99%" anywhere. How about just "Revolt." Get creative.

As Alligator Ed noted above, these public messages, statements and actions are the fertilizer for the beginning of a revolution.

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"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:

THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"

- Kurt Vonnegut

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@Mark from Queens There's also sidewalk chalk.

Sounds quaint, I know. But during, or shortly after, Occupy, a group of dedicated people persisted in scrawling searing messages on the sidewalk in front of our local Citizens Bank branch.

The messages were hard to miss.

They washed off when it rained -- at which point, they wrote more.

IANAL, but I don't think you can be charged with destruction/defacement of property when it's a temporary thing?

(I think I'll get a Sharpie, though).

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@Mark from Queens Simple, cheap, anybody can do it. I like your shirts too. Of course I can see "Health care for all" being met with "hurr durr health care isn't a right!" rubbish.
When I went to Occupy Minneapolis, 'Tax the rich' was the sign I made. Had a dude pull over and say "So you think only rich people should pay taxes?" Yes, that's exactly what I mean. Idiots. *eyeroll*

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This shit is bananas.

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@Daenerys

How Does A Patriot Act?

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"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn

@Meteor Man was one saying "I couldn't afford my own politician so I made this sign." Simple and effectively said it all. Who could really argue with that one, we all know it's totally true. And it's completely non-partisan as well, something we all know deep down in our American gut.

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Only a fool lets someone else tell him who his enemy is. Assata Shakur

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@lizzyh7 (one similar) 99% of us can't afford a lobbyist
Believing corporations were people when they all went on welfare
Serf's up!
Damn, I got poor fast.

I have photos, but you can't repost from Photobucket without paying out the ass anymore either. Not sure if direct links work; here's me.

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This shit is bananas.

@Daenerys Link is still working. I wanted to make one calling out to the cops that they too are really the 99%, something to the effect of "they will pay for all the guns for you to kill your fellow citizens but will they pay your pension when they're done with you?" Obviously, that got too long and I really needed a much bigger sign for it so I went without a sign that day.

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Only a fool lets someone else tell him who his enemy is. Assata Shakur

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the bucket, jumped the shark, @Daenerys

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@Meteor Man

"How Would a Patriot Act?
Defending American Values from a President Run Amok."

And remember, Greenwald has become one of the very best truth-to-power advocate journalists in this era. And, he got his start as a constitutional lawyer blogging at his own site.

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"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:

THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"

- Kurt Vonnegut

@Daenerys When they say that, and they will, just maybe ask them which they'd really rather have those horrible taxes they pay buy - endless wars that only create inevitable blowback forever and ever, or healthcare for all people in this country, including themselves? $700B PER YEAR on "defense" and we "can't afford healthcare," REALLY? Granted, I've used that one before and they'll pooh-pooh it of course, but it just might plant that seed of doubt and that's the start.

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Only a fool lets someone else tell him who his enemy is. Assata Shakur

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@lizzyh7 the entire civilized world disagrees with them. Of course then they usually go into semantics about what is a 'right' and where 'rights' come from. But your point is better.

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This shit is bananas.

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@lizzyh7 with the endless wars are "to protect our freedumb!" Barf.

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This shit is bananas.

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@lizzyh7
from your illnesses. Have fun with doing so.

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@mimi Short, sweet and right to the point.

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Only a fool lets someone else tell him who his enemy is. Assata Shakur

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@Mark from Queens
thank you.

My contribution would be on my backpack, which I carry around everywhere. I will carry a box of poop with me all the time. May be my T-shirt will say:
"99 percenters, drop your poop on the 1 percent. Feed the revolution".

Na ja, big words, I don't believe in my own words. But that's what I would like to do, if I were a US citizen.

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@mimi
of course I agree with it. What he says is and has been pretty obvious since the mid nineties and the rise of IT technology and the world wide web, but in general since I came to the US in 1982.
Sorry to respond so late, I fell asleep over typing it.

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That's your 10% or whatever that starts a revolution! Heck, they even have state and federal Representatives touting revolutionary phrases/dialogue. They hate the Left, taxes, feds, UN, Courts, etc. They are 5 steps ahead of us. They have arsenals, strategy (I'm guessing), etc. But I don't think they can prevail against the police/military state, who will quash any uprising, even from the Right.

I believe the left needs to somehow join them.

IMHO

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@p cook
I guess it's irrelevant anyhow.

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