Do u feel…

I’m not American, so I can’t truly answer but having attended protests before, it will at least give those that do attend some unity and hope.

I don’t know. I hope so.

Unity. Looking across at others that are standing, which generates more belief.

Sure, more than just protest has to happen but it has a positive effect.

This is sad, but we’ll fill the shoes.

There are but they’re costly and nowhere near as fast.

Really enjoyed this, cheers.

Just saw old mate’s painting on Antiques Roadshow, worth 300k quid. Imagine finding that at Neighbours Aid ay

You and you too!

22 now including mine.

I dunno, I’m pretty fat so whichever way I lie there’s depth.

Yeah, you kinda need to live out there to understand why breaking from it will be difficult.

It completely changed internet access out there, in many parts. Unfortunately the investment in optic fibre NBN or mobile tower services has been nowhere near enough.

No paywall

https://archive.is/CEsFK

This is it.

Civil shutdown which forces those in government who might do what’s needed to do it.

It requires hardship though.

Portsmouth really threw themselves at us last night.

They all either hate us or benchmark themselves against us.

As it is for you.

Real men ay? Be careful of accusing others when you present no evidence you are anything more.

The ways to stop this go from easy to hard. Funny that.

The easiest is voting. It has the least risk, is the easiest to do. Done properly and regularly, it’s also the most effective, not just preventing shit like this happening but putting people you actually want in power. This is easier than the protest fix.

Bear in mind Americans are too lazy to do this in any numbers. They think even this is too difficult.

The next is peaceful protest, running from organised marches which are less effective but galvanise the public, to complete shutdown of trading, going to work, whatever can be done. This takes more effort than voting and in the case of real shutdown or mass protests, requires hardship. In this case this would be done to force those in power who might, to use the institutional rules that stand to remove this president and administration.

This is where the US is now and what it should do to fix this. This requires hardship, like losing jobs they don’t want, healthcare insurance which covers fuckall anyway and the threat of eviction.

This is still better than being shot in the face, which leads us to the next and last step of doing something about it; civil war. Despite some claiming the US is there, it isn’t quite yet. People are being murdered but there are not yet states fighting each other.

You might think you want this but you don’t, really.

When are US citizens going to take the easier paths to fix these things? Right now it’s peaceful shutdown. Fuckin oath they’ll lose jobs, healthcare and homes but perhaps if they thought about these things every time elections came up and how important voting is, the US wouldn’t be here.

Disengage. Don’t go to work, don’t buy any shit you don’t need, don’t pay your bills, don’t pay tax. Don’t bitch about the hardships of this either; you didn’t take the easy way out so now it’s the hard.

This Ark Encounter is the most American shit. Taxpayer money stolen by a religious Australian to build a monument for religious nutcases to spend more money to fill their heads with more bullshit.

It won’t get banned in Australia. Musk will pull Starlink and that will absolutely force the federal governments hand. The outback and most of rural Australia are on Starlink.

People can only do what is in their power to do.

It’s a case of ‘if you don’t like what’s going on, don’t engage’. I’ve boycotted watching the last WC and I’ll boycott watching this too. Will it make a difference? Probably not, not while the majority whinge and fold, but I’m not whining that there was nothing I could do.

I have a lot of respect for people handing in their tickets, at best that’s a shitload of planning and organisation they’ve burned to do the right thing.

They either did or didn’t care enough not to vote. Not just this election either.

Tampering is a shitload harder to do when the turnout is something like 80 or 90 percent.

No excuses here.

There isn’t enough…

Internal violence…

Yes, I agree to every sentence in those two paragraphs. I don’t advocate for it and my comment didn’t.

voting and protesting is all we have

Yep, which is why I replied do something to the voting point.

You need to do something that grinds production, like stopping work and trading, that forces those in power to use the standing institutional rules to remove the two or three needed and you know who they are. The rest then becomes an incompetent Republican administration. Yes, it sounds insane and impossible; it probably is. It requires hardship which Americans are not willing to endure.

You voted them in. That ship has sailed. Your nation needs free and fair midterms at all costs.

I’m not advocating for violence, at all. I never have and I don’t want to see the US fall because the loss is incalculable. I do advocate people take whatever steps necessary to defend themselves. I support the organised protests but I don’t think that’ll be enough; pockets need to drain. The system needs jamming and the only way to get those that can act is to jam it.

our lives are going bad enough

You had control of that. Others don’t have and they don’t have control of your military turning on them.

No, I don’t get off on US misfortune, but I’m tired of fuckall being done by voters year by year then pissing and moaning when people are threatened and killed.