Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, all those guys, they know better. They’re also doing fine money-wise. They had every option to just tell Trump to get fucked, and mess up their company if he wanted to make that decision

You say that as if they're complying reluctantly instead of enthusiastically.

All the billionaire plutocrats are fucking GLEEFUL at what's happening. Every. Single. Fucking. One. is the enemy of the People.

"On Tyranny" covers that in the first chapter.

2 hour audiobook.

Well, you don't become a billionaire by doing the morally right thing, so it would have been a miracle.

Oops I think I dropped this link to the Simple Sabotage Field Manual on accident

If they don't burn or ban them.

A great deal of the modernization of finance and policy enforcement has been about pre-enforcement. You get your IRS money taken out before it hits your paycheck. You don't speed in a neighborhood with speed bumps because it immediately fucks up your car. Your ability to access your office space or bank account or the electricity/water that goes into your home even the ability to turn on newer models of car is predicated on a permission slip that a third party can disable with a button click.

On the flip side, so much of our daily life is alienated from the other people that make our standard of living possible. I don't know who works at my grocery store, much less who actually picks my fruit or bakes my bread or slaughters my beef. I don't know who provides me with electricity or water. I don't know who is on the other side of the teller window when it comes time to cash a check or pull out cash.

Participation is mandatory because the interfaces that allow us to interact with one another are gate-kept by remote and indifferent agents. Opting out of these systems is difficult and expensive. Reaching out to people to engage in collective action is onerous and awkward.

governments really don’t want people to understand they have that nuclear option and will do anything to prevent people from organizing for it.

Government administrators keep a short lease on their direct reports and underlings. Private sector administrators do, too. Organizing the people with their hands closest to the levers of power is incredibly difficult, while administrative replacement of these higher ranking bureaucrats is trivially easy.

At some level, what the Trump Admin is currently doing cuts so deep that he may actually sever his ability to impose his will on remote offices and local bureaucracies. If enough high ranking FBI admins or DOJ lawyers walk off the job, it just becomes impossible to command branches in far-flung states and territories.

But when he's got guys like Peter Thiel and Jamie Damion in his back pocket, it may not matter. The ability to instantly fire, bankrupt, or imprison people anywhere in the country has a powerful chilling effect. The only people it doesn't immediately threaten are the folks who have already lost too much and the folks who have managed to remove themselves from the domestic system entirely.

None of this is to say we shouldn't organize and oppose this shit. But go in with eyes wide open. Don't naively assume raw numbers matter in the face of a heavily automated administrative state.

Good thing Democrats voted for that every step of the way, despite people telling them what this was going to lead to.

That always depend on how many (and to some extent which) people have that attitude.

I disagree. Pretending to comply is just as good to them as compliance. They don't actually care about someone getting an abortion, but they do care about the message it sends to the masses. By saying no and leaving them with no option but to use physical force we are showing the cracks in that agenda/message. Those cracks will grow and encourage others to stand up and say no. Once that happens the entire foundation of it falls apart because people aren't afraid anymore. Sure a few of us will be beaten, killed, jailed, even publicly executed. But as OP said they can't stop us all.

What are you even trying to say? Like yeah, your comment parses grammatically, but I haven't the foggiest about what it's supposed to mean in context 🤷‍♀️

And voting discourse? What's the point of that??? The election was two and a half months ago, and Biden wasn't even running 🤦‍♀️

Quick question to make sure this isn't a bot account: how many times does the letter "m" occur in the word "remembered"?

Could you please explain what this means? This is on par with that inbred on every Facebook post who comments "LOOKS LIKE BIDEN N KAMALER", and it'll be an ad for a Volkswagen.

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Hey bud, in scrolling through your previous posts it seems like you’re having a hard time being accepted. Perhaps pause before posting, take a step back from the keyboard, and consider putting yourself in other’s shoes. You might find more in common with us if you try it.

I think the point is to refuse fascism, not embrace it.