I think we're misaligned because my unstated goal is to reduce the risk to migrants and trans people from a tyrannical government. Reducing state power would greatly reduce their ability to round up immigrants and dick over the queer community. It would mean less money to pay police to be assholes at the very least.

It's also a safe in-point for people wanting to take direct action but afraid of the legal consequences of more glamorous activities.

Buying nothing, buying less, buying used, buying local (in that order) is easy-ish for most people, saves them money, and breaks no laws or contracts. Not paying your bills is a dumb idea, but not buying shit you don't need is a win win for individuals. It would take several years to build a critical mass and if people change their relationship to consumption it would be easier to sustain that pressure.

No temporary strike, protest, or other action will save us. We need long term personal change that will slowly starve out the billionaire class and their lackies.

I am trying to organize a national buy nothing campaign, but the only resources I have are grass roots tools, like rambling in internet comments and writing weird zines. I'd suggest trying to reduce your personal spending by 20% and encourage people you know personally to do the same, if everyone did that the powers that be will take notice and in 18 months we'd see change.

That may be, but no sense helping them do it.

Sweetie, as another socially isolated loner, that is that isolated. Especially for your immune system.

Why not? Maybe our robot overlords would be more fun

Depending on how many fingers are left I would make the following wishes:

1. I wish the entire world were governed by egalitarian justice.
2. I wish that anyone who would use violence against another living creature would instantly die of a heart attack instead.
3. I wish that every human has the resources they need to live the life they want for themselves.
4. I wish that all people understood the true nature of the reality in which they live.
5. I wish all trans people had been assigned the gender, or lack thereof, they identify with at birth.

First, I am a woman. Second, this is no longer fun. I'm not interested in continuing this discussion. Perhaps join a bible study group or something? I'm interested in discussing philosophy, and religion is not that.

In my imagination perhaps humanity might have focused more on exploring the solar system instead of killing each other and we'd have a lunar settlement. I'd personally want to live there because I have dreamed of leaving Earth since I was a kid.

But with any real thought, we went to the moon in the 60's because we developed the precursor technologies fighting Hitler, which probably wouldn't have happened if he wasn't a bag of dicks.

Picard and Dathon at El-Adrel.

So the system successfully identified the kid as a threat, but was not able to prevent the shooting because the father bought the guy on behalf of the shooter.

How would you even prevent that? No way the 2a nuts would go for a temporary ban on firearm ownership (or at least new purchases) by family members. Besides something like that could be used maliciously very easily. You can't take all the kids who post edgy shit online into custody, we just don't have the budget and it's probably not the right move anyway.

You could mandate therapy or some other mental health intervention, like a biweekly visit with the school's counselor. But those nerds don't need any qualifications so they might not be able to identify a credible threat or help talk a shooter out of their (likely unknown to the counsellor) plans.

There are a gajillion things we could try, if not for the blind ignorance of the 2a nuts.

Legible notes, especially those intended to be personal. I absolutely love buying used books and finding notes in them (either between the pages or written on them). Crumpled notes, shopping lists, discarded notebooks.

If I wasn't poor, I would prefer those to the banality of money.

Yeah I mean project 2025 is not his thing, it's the heritage foundation's thing they've been scheming for years.

Makes sense. Biden was given the most money by AIPAC ($4m) and she's Biden's VP. I am not at all surprised that she's honoring whatever agreement came attached to that money. I think anyone who is surprised that she is continuing Biden's support of genocide isn't paying attention.