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Lol the message is the same as its been since the begining of time. Youngsters today have no respect with their long hair and their rock and roll and their safe spaces. Wouldn't have happened in my day.

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04-22-2017 , 04:14 PM

#2602

einbert

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Had a great time at the March for Science today. Our event was totally peaceful, in fact there weren't really any anti-science people. There was even a church or two supporting science (unitarians). It was really fun and I'm looking forward to more events like that.

04-22-2017 , 04:35 PM

#2603

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What was the turnout like nationwide?

EDIT: Just heard tens of thousands on the news. About the same as tax day I guess.

04-22-2017 , 05:26 PM

#2604

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Few hundred in columbia but people were coming and going quite a bit due to some festivities/food trucks/vendors for a separate event a couple blocks over, there were at least a couple thousand people wandering about back and forth in the area tho

Did not see a single confederate flag, surrisingly

04-23-2017 , 04:48 AM

#2605

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04-23-2017 , 07:47 PM

#2606

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http://www.justopenednewyork.com/cou...lage-new-york/

http://ny.eater.com/2017/4/6/1521045...anti-trump-bar

Cliffs: Bar in lower Manhattan with all-star bartenders opened by liberal, anti-Trump owner of several other NYC hotspots. Donates all profits to organizations that could lose funding due to Trump.

If you're in NYC, go. We're already making plans to hit it up. And get bombed.

04-24-2017 , 02:06 PM

#2607

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Resistance Action Items 4/24/2017

Call Sen. Richard Burr and tell him he must recuse himself from the Trump-Russia investigation immediately. 336-631-5125

Senate Russia probe flounders amid partisan bickering
https://www.yahoo.com/news/senate-ru...130323166.html

04-25-2017 , 10:54 AM

#2608

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Resistance Action Items 4/25/2017

Consume great art. Cultural literacy is a very important part of digging ourselves out of our current predicament.

04-26-2017 , 07:23 AM

#2609

SuperUberBob

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Crooked Media is releasing a podcast that may cover aspects of this thread called "Pod Save The People".

https://getcrookedmedia.com/pod-save...le-56bc42af53d

Its first people will be released on May 2nd

04-26-2017 , 10:58 AM

#2610

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I love the stuff they are doing, kind of worried about saturating the market though.

This makes what, 5?

04-26-2017 , 09:05 PM

#2611

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Coulter backed out, won't be speaking in Berkeley.

04-27-2017 , 09:07 AM

#2612

einbert

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Resistance Action Items 4/27/2017

New health care bill is a thing. You know what to do guys.

http://www.contactsenators.com/
http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/

"Please oppose the latest incarnation of TrumpCare. It would take away health insurance from millions of working class families in order to cut the taxes of the wealthiest Americans."

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-polit...ress-exemption

05-02-2017 , 10:14 AM

#2613

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Stay focused my friends.

https://www.salon.com/2017/05/01/his...row-democracy/

Historian Timothy Snyder: “It’s pretty much inevitable” that Trump will try to stage a coup and overthrow democracy

Yale historian and author of the new book "On Tyranny" says we may have one year left to save American democracy

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Our story about how nothing could [ever] go wrong was a story about how human nature is the free market and the free market brings democracy, so everything is hunky-dory — and of course every part of that story is nonsense. The Greeks understood that democracy is likely to produce oligarchy because if you don’t have some mechanism to get inequality under control then people with the most money will likely take full control.

With Trump, one sees the new variant of this where a candidate can run by saying, “Look, we all know — wink, wink, nudge, nudge — that this isn’t really a democracy anymore.” He doesn’t use the words but basically says, “We all know this is really an oligarchy, so let me be your oligarch.” Although it’s nonsense and of course he’s a con man and will betray everyone, it makes sense only in this climate of inequality.

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Why is Trump not being held accountable for all of his failures, scandals and incompetence?

Mr. Trump is primarily a television personality. As such, he is judged by that standard. This means that a scandal does not call forth a response; it calls forth the desire for a bigger scandal. It just whets the appetite for a bigger scandal because a television serial has to work on that logic. It’s almost as though he has to produce these outrageous things because what else would he be doing?

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In your book you discuss the idea that Donald Trump will have his own version of Hitler’s Reichstag fire to expand his power and take full control of the government by declaring a state of emergency. How do you think that would play out?

Let me make just two points. The first is that I think it’s pretty much inevitable that they will try. The reason I think that is that the conventional ways of being popular are not working out for them. The conventional way to be popular or to be legitimate in this country is to have some policies, to grow your popularity ratings and to win some elections. I don’t think 2018 is looking very good for the Republicans along those conventional lines — not just because the president is historically unpopular. It’s also because neither the White House nor Congress have any policies which the majority of the public like.

This means they could be seduced by the notion of getting into a new rhythm of politics, one that does not depend upon popular policies and electoral cycles.

Whether it works or not depends upon whether when something terrible happens to this country, we are aware that the main significance of it is whether or not we are going to be more or less free citizens in the future.

My gut feeling is that Trump and his administration will try and that it won’t work. Not so much because we are so great but because we have a little bit of time to prepare. I also think that there are enough people and enough agencies of the government who have also thought about this and would not necessarily go along.

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What can citizens do? What would your call to action be?

The whole point of my new book, “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century,” is that we have a century of wisdom and very smart people who confronted situations like our own — but usually more demanding — and that wisdom can be condensed.

What my book does is it goes across the arc of regime change, from the beginning to the end, and it provides things ranging from simpler to harder that people can literally do every day.

The thing that matters the most is to realize that in moments like this your actions really do matter. It is ironic but in an authoritarian regime-change situation, the individual matters more than [in] a democracy. In an authoritarian regime change, at the beginning the individual has a special kind of power because the authoritarian regime depends on a certain kind of consent. Which means that if you are conscious of the moment that you are in, you can find the ways not to express your consent and you can also find the little ways to be a barrier. If enough people do that, it really can make a difference — but again only at the beginning.

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What are some of the more difficult and challenging things that people can do?

The last lesson in “On Tyranny” is to be as courageous as you can. Do you actually care enough about freedom that you would take risks? Do individuals actually care about freedom? Think that through. I think if enough of us take the little risks at the beginning, which aren’t really that significant, this will prevent us from having to take bigger risks down the line.

We are still at a stage where protest is not illegal. We’re still at a stage where protest is not lethal. Those are the two big thresholds. We are still on the good side of both of those thresholds and so now is the time you want to pack in as much as you can because you could actually divert things. Once you get into a world where protest is illegal, then the things that I recommend like corporeal politics, getting out on the streets — they have to happen but they are much riskier. It’s a much different kind of decision.

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How much time does American democracy have left before this poison becomes lethal and there is no path of return?

You have to accept there is a time frame. Nobody can be sure how long this particular regime change with Trump will take, but there is a clock, and the clock really is ticking. It’s three years on the outside, but in more likelihood something like a year. In January 2018 we will probably have a pretty good idea which way this thing is going. It’s going to depend more on us than on them in the meantime. Once you get past a certain threshold, it starts to depend more on them than on us, and then things are much, much worse. It makes me sad to think how Americans would behave at that point.

05-02-2017 , 10:25 AM

#2614

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That Timothy Snyder guy knows what he's talking about. We should all listen to him ^^^^.

Resistance Action Items 5/2/2017

https://twitter.com/kalpenn/status/859413210163752960

05-03-2017 , 12:03 PM

#2615

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Resistance Action Items 5/3/2017

AHCA is getting closer to passing and it still sucks. In fact it's actually worse than the original AHCA. They are trying to make the debate seem very complicated, but it's simple. 24 million will lose their health insurance under AHCA. Call your Rep. now and tell them NO on AHCA.

05-05-2017 , 12:24 PM

#2616

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Originally Posted by einbert

Update!: It passed.

05-07-2017 , 11:40 PM

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Trump and his band of scumbags are trying to kill the internet again.

Use this link to post your support of net neutrality by providing a comment to the FCC.

Props to This Week Tonight.

05-08-2017 , 08:19 AM

#2618

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Originally Posted by Clovis8

Trump and his band of scumbags are trying to kill the internet again.

Use this link to post your support of net neutrality by providing a comment to the FCC.

Props to Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.

fyp

Here's John last night:

The link is down right now for me. But keep on going there today until it is corrected. Leaving a simple comment like: "Preserve net neutrality and Title 2" is all you need to do.

Some of you might think that only the browns will be hurt by Trump. Whelp now he is going after your internet.

05-08-2017 , 08:22 AM

#2619

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The Internets talk bad about him. You don't understand, he HAS to get revenge on it.

05-08-2017 , 11:28 AM

#2620

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Resistance Action Items 5/8/2017

Leave a comment for the FCC that you want to keep Net Neutrality under Title 2:
www.gofccyourself.com

Donate/volunteer/support candidates going up against Republicans in upcoming swing districts:
www.swingleft.org

Call your Senators, tell them NO REPUBLICARE
http://www.contactsenators.com/

05-08-2017 , 02:41 PM

#2621

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the link is now coming up, but i don't see where to leave a comment. can anyone help?

05-08-2017 , 03:37 PM

#2622

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They changed it again to make it a harder process.

First click this link:
https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/proc...=name:((17-108))

Then click "Express":

Then fill out the short form that comes up.

05-08-2017 , 06:04 PM

#2623

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Originally Posted by einbert

They changed it again to make it a harder process.

First click this link:
https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/proc...=name:((17-108))

Then click "Express":

Then fill out the short form that comes up.

thx. submitted.

05-08-2017 , 06:25 PM

#2624

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2+2 breaks the FCC link if it's just pasted.

Click Here to yell at the FCC about net neutrality, then do what einbert said.

05-09-2017 , 01:02 AM

#2625

einbert

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Resistance Action Items 5/9/2017

Call your nearby Democratic Congresspeople and Senators, tell them you need a town hall in your district (because most likely your rep. isn't doing town halls).

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/w...s-939331651863

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