Excellent breakdown of how state-level enforcement creates peer hierarchies kids then weaponize. The UCLA survey data showing 35.6% of schools reporting this kind of bullying is staggering and tbh I've seen similartensions in community spaces where kids pick up on what adults normalize. What really catches me is the absenteeism metric being treated as an immdiate indicator, districts might need to adjust their attendance protocols if they're serious about addressing root causes.
TINA: There Is No Alternative. There is no peaceful alternative.
Plan A
Plan A consists of phoning/writing your legislators, and street demonstrations, neither of which have worked nor give any sign of working. His Royal Heinous controls the majority party in the legislature and they are doing his bidding. As for street demonstrations:
From Professor Erica Chenoweth:
…”they often subject their participants to a higher risk of repression or communal violence from opponents. So movements that are capable of having the capacity to shift to methods of dispersion, like stay-at-homes or strikes or forms of economic noncooperation, tend to be much more effective because they have the capability of maneuver when the state begins to ramp up violence against them.”
Soft Secession
Federal funds make up 35% of California’s state budget, with $173 billion in federal grants awarded in Fiscal Year 2021 alone, making up a significant portion of state and local budgets for programs like health, education, and infrastructure.
Are they really going to anger HRH to the extent that he cuts off their federal funding?
Soft secession? Only to the point when HRH feels threatened.
He will move in with all his resources and stop it.
This soft secession idea is a political ploy by state officials to get their constituents to believe the officials are doing something to stop the takeover.
It’s also another distraction to the resistance in that it keeps us from organizing and uniting around what must be done and what will work. It’s another example of hoping for an easy fix, one that will not take any sacrifice.
In addition, soft secession is divisive, pitting blue states against red states, playing into the narrative of HRH, who wants to start a civil war. MAGA not only wants to “own the libs”, they’d like to kill as many as possible, to eliminate the opposition.
Targeted boycotts
Why targeted boycotts are ineffective:
Boycotts often fail because they require massive, sustained participation to create meaningful financial pressure, lack clear alternatives for consumers, generate insufficient negative media attention, and are easily weathered by companies waiting for the protest to fade. Additionally, the complex nature of modern capitalism and the proliferation of corporate conglomerates can make it difficult for boycotters to effectively target and impact a company's bottom line or reputation, especially when companies have multiple revenue streams, like real estate, that aren't affected by consumer boycotts.
In 2020, Goya Foods praised President Donald Trump on social media, which caused those in opposition to Trump to boycott their products. Trump loyalists simultaneously initated a counter-boycott, where consumers bought mass quantities of their products, in response. The boycott caused Goya profits to increase dramatically because Trump supporters started an opposing campaign.
The midterm election
Will it be free and fair? It won’t be. Will it occur at all? HRH has already said that if we’re at war there’ll be no election. Guess what? If it’s looking bad for him, we’ll be at war to stop the election. The election is important to him because having the majority in the legislature gives the fascist regime the look of legitimacy.
People are putting too much faith in what the midterms will do. They may have a beneficial psychologic effect but in reality the outcome will have little or no practical effect, unless the Dems can get 2/3 majority in the house and senate, which they won’t. They will not be able to undo anything HRH has done or pass new legislation because of his veto power.
The Courts
While some lower courts have ruled against HRH, slowing his takeover, the rulings have been fast tracked to the Supreme Court. It has almost universally ruled in HRH’s favor. SCOTUS members Roberts and Barrett may have an epiphany and save the country from civil war, but it’s doubtful. It’s going to be up to us to stop this.
Time is running out for a Peaceful Solution. Please Spread the Word!, far, wide, and quickly, before the fascists takedown our means of communication.
ICE does whatever they want. Whether allowed too or not. They seem to be in their on little world. If my kids were still school-age I would NOT send them to school. Why, because not everyone is brave enough to stand up to these bastards. I've been reading way too many that won't speak up out of fear.
I will put my body in harms way to protect children.
When I saw Liam Ramos fkn lifeless that CRUSHED me. We need to protect little ones. No matter what. They don't know what's going on just that they are now with strangers and Mommy and Daddy is gone.
Hatred does not come with birth, it's learned by exposure. Racism is taught. The teacher is most often someone who learned to be a racist from another who had that trait in their character. Similar to a contagion, racism breeds throughout a society by ignorance and a stubborn sense of superiority of one person over another. It is a creeping, insidious attitude against humanity. One of the best examples of this is a person named Stephen Miller. The man is incapable of speaking without making a blatant attack against anyone who is not white, Christian, and meets his standards of acceptance. Having a place of influence in our government is an afront to all decency. This, folks, is how low we have fallen from the ideals set forth two hundred and fifty years ago by men of exceptional intellect who created the concept of America. We must not allow a continuation of the amoral administration now in power to destroy our freedoms.
These prejudices are passed down from generation to generation until it reaches someone who doesn’t buy into the bullshit. When I was 5 or 6 my older sisters told me I was adopted from a black family and “mailed” me fake letters from my Uncle Leroy. I didn’t understand at the time that their choice of “black family” and “Leroy” was built on racism and an attempt to make me feel like less of a person. I was understandably crushed at the thought of being adopted, but not because from who I was allegedly adopted. However at 9, as a sat in my closet making goody bags for my birthday party, my mom informed me I was not allowed to invite my best friend Angela. Angela was black. At 10 my friend Joe called our house. My mom answered came storming in, demanding to know why “some black boy” was calling me. These were my friends, and I knew this behavior and these words were pure racism. I watched in embarrassment as my dad made loud comments about immigrants and even tourists who “need to learn how to speak English if they were gonna be in America”.
Indiana lawmakers are pushing through the house that permits ICE goons to come into schools ! This is a disgrace to our country which is created directly by the corrupt convicted felon Putin puppet Trump regime authoritarian dictatorship !
Excellent breakdown of how state-level enforcement creates peer hierarchies kids then weaponize. The UCLA survey data showing 35.6% of schools reporting this kind of bullying is staggering and tbh I've seen similartensions in community spaces where kids pick up on what adults normalize. What really catches me is the absenteeism metric being treated as an immdiate indicator, districts might need to adjust their attendance protocols if they're serious about addressing root causes.
The Peaceful Solution-Part 2
Why a Spending Strike is the Best Option:
TINA: There Is No Alternative. There is no peaceful alternative.
Plan A
Plan A consists of phoning/writing your legislators, and street demonstrations, neither of which have worked nor give any sign of working. His Royal Heinous controls the majority party in the legislature and they are doing his bidding. As for street demonstrations:
From Professor Erica Chenoweth:
…”they often subject their participants to a higher risk of repression or communal violence from opponents. So movements that are capable of having the capacity to shift to methods of dispersion, like stay-at-homes or strikes or forms of economic noncooperation, tend to be much more effective because they have the capability of maneuver when the state begins to ramp up violence against them.”
Soft Secession
Federal funds make up 35% of California’s state budget, with $173 billion in federal grants awarded in Fiscal Year 2021 alone, making up a significant portion of state and local budgets for programs like health, education, and infrastructure.
Are they really going to anger HRH to the extent that he cuts off their federal funding?
Soft secession? Only to the point when HRH feels threatened.
He will move in with all his resources and stop it.
This soft secession idea is a political ploy by state officials to get their constituents to believe the officials are doing something to stop the takeover.
It’s also another distraction to the resistance in that it keeps us from organizing and uniting around what must be done and what will work. It’s another example of hoping for an easy fix, one that will not take any sacrifice.
In addition, soft secession is divisive, pitting blue states against red states, playing into the narrative of HRH, who wants to start a civil war. MAGA not only wants to “own the libs”, they’d like to kill as many as possible, to eliminate the opposition.
Targeted boycotts
Why targeted boycotts are ineffective:
Boycotts often fail because they require massive, sustained participation to create meaningful financial pressure, lack clear alternatives for consumers, generate insufficient negative media attention, and are easily weathered by companies waiting for the protest to fade. Additionally, the complex nature of modern capitalism and the proliferation of corporate conglomerates can make it difficult for boycotters to effectively target and impact a company's bottom line or reputation, especially when companies have multiple revenue streams, like real estate, that aren't affected by consumer boycotts.
In 2020, Goya Foods praised President Donald Trump on social media, which caused those in opposition to Trump to boycott their products. Trump loyalists simultaneously initated a counter-boycott, where consumers bought mass quantities of their products, in response. The boycott caused Goya profits to increase dramatically because Trump supporters started an opposing campaign.
The midterm election
Will it be free and fair? It won’t be. Will it occur at all? HRH has already said that if we’re at war there’ll be no election. Guess what? If it’s looking bad for him, we’ll be at war to stop the election. The election is important to him because having the majority in the legislature gives the fascist regime the look of legitimacy.
People are putting too much faith in what the midterms will do. They may have a beneficial psychologic effect but in reality the outcome will have little or no practical effect, unless the Dems can get 2/3 majority in the house and senate, which they won’t. They will not be able to undo anything HRH has done or pass new legislation because of his veto power.
The Courts
While some lower courts have ruled against HRH, slowing his takeover, the rulings have been fast tracked to the Supreme Court. It has almost universally ruled in HRH’s favor. SCOTUS members Roberts and Barrett may have an epiphany and save the country from civil war, but it’s doubtful. It’s going to be up to us to stop this.
Time is running out for a Peaceful Solution. Please Spread the Word!, far, wide, and quickly, before the fascists takedown our means of communication.

ICE does whatever they want. Whether allowed too or not. They seem to be in their on little world. If my kids were still school-age I would NOT send them to school. Why, because not everyone is brave enough to stand up to these bastards. I've been reading way too many that won't speak up out of fear.
I will put my body in harms way to protect children.
When I saw Liam Ramos fkn lifeless that CRUSHED me. We need to protect little ones. No matter what. They don't know what's going on just that they are now with strangers and Mommy and Daddy is gone.
FUCKING TRAFFIC.
*tragic
Hatred does not come with birth, it's learned by exposure. Racism is taught. The teacher is most often someone who learned to be a racist from another who had that trait in their character. Similar to a contagion, racism breeds throughout a society by ignorance and a stubborn sense of superiority of one person over another. It is a creeping, insidious attitude against humanity. One of the best examples of this is a person named Stephen Miller. The man is incapable of speaking without making a blatant attack against anyone who is not white, Christian, and meets his standards of acceptance. Having a place of influence in our government is an afront to all decency. This, folks, is how low we have fallen from the ideals set forth two hundred and fifty years ago by men of exceptional intellect who created the concept of America. We must not allow a continuation of the amoral administration now in power to destroy our freedoms.
These prejudices are passed down from generation to generation until it reaches someone who doesn’t buy into the bullshit. When I was 5 or 6 my older sisters told me I was adopted from a black family and “mailed” me fake letters from my Uncle Leroy. I didn’t understand at the time that their choice of “black family” and “Leroy” was built on racism and an attempt to make me feel like less of a person. I was understandably crushed at the thought of being adopted, but not because from who I was allegedly adopted. However at 9, as a sat in my closet making goody bags for my birthday party, my mom informed me I was not allowed to invite my best friend Angela. Angela was black. At 10 my friend Joe called our house. My mom answered came storming in, demanding to know why “some black boy” was calling me. These were my friends, and I knew this behavior and these words were pure racism. I watched in embarrassment as my dad made loud comments about immigrants and even tourists who “need to learn how to speak English if they were gonna be in America”.
Yes, it's happening here.
Indiana lawmakers are pushing through the house that permits ICE goons to come into schools ! This is a disgrace to our country which is created directly by the corrupt convicted felon Putin puppet Trump regime authoritarian dictatorship !
Stop it! Racism is torture!