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The Democrats are clearly not going to save us. We're gonna have to save ourselves.
Cooked I tell ya.
What's your plan?
When the Republicans had this problem, they developed the Tea Party.
We need a Guillotine Party to perform the same role.
Billionaires astroturfed the Tea Party
Brian Thompson fertilized the guillotine party.
You've already been shown that the modern guillotine fits in your pocket or backpack.
The billionaire class has given us no choice. It's us or them
The Tea Party had a bunch of billionaires behind it. Organizing takes money.
I love this idea.
Mutual aid. Community gardens. Community mesh-networks that don't connect to corporate internet.
In other words, building parallel systems to support one another. Gotta get mobilized on a local level and build systems outside of capitalism for support leading up to (hopefully) a General Strike.
The violence is coming, that's almost assured. We don't have to invite it before we have a plan and ways to take care of one another.
The Black Panthers and the community work they did need to be used as a roadmap. There will be infiltrators and agent provocateurs trying to dismantle it from the inside. We need to be smart like Afeni Shakur.
Your solution is to wait for the violence and then play defense?
The Black Panthers got a lot of headlines and got wiped out without the Establishment breaking a sweat.
You're completely dependent on the electrical grid, the internet, the roads, and the rest of the infrastructure that Trump is going to control.
And, as you pointed out, the entire Movement was riddled with spies. Think Blackwater is really going to let you have your little garden?