Economically dependent on their northern neighbor, business owners in Washington state are laying off employees and shutting their doors.

  • Pup Biru@aussie.zone
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    1 day ago

    everyone there is doing fuck all about it.

    i think it’s important not to downplay the protests… people are organising the most political action that’s happened in most people’s lifetimes

    but it’s by no means proportional to the situation

    and perhaps more importantly: there are still a huge number of people that are drinking the koolaid

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      16 hours ago

      The protests have proven to be irrelevant and ignored. Trump and his idiocy has been protested for a decade. He’s been convicted of crimes, he was declared by a court to be a rapist, when he speaks, he clearly has mush for brains, people close to him have called him a racist, he formented an insurrection. And yet here we are…

      Clearly holding up signs, even in large groups is doing fuck all.

      Thomas Jefferson had something to say about what the situation calls for.

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        4 hours ago

        https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr/publications/35-rule-how-small-minority-can-change-world

        you need 3.5% of the population engaged in non-violent protest for guaranteed political change

        for the USA, that’s about 10m people - no small number… the protests keep growing. what’s your solution? because so far that’s the best idea that anyone has simply because

        Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts

        sure, the systems should be better equipped to deal with the situation, but they’re not… so it’s a shit situation, moving on from that: realistic paths forward?