THAT IS WHAT PATRIOTS DO

Joy as Defiance (3 min)
Robert Arnold

https://youtube.com/shorts/Eibfo6IkBhE

Is amplified and broadcast by one million, ten million, a hundred million US citizens who are in the streets demanding an end to the trump regime - nothing changes. Sorry but this is the truth.

Overcome fascist and/or authoritarian regimes?

Think back to Marcos and Corazon Aquino's people power. Ukrains orange revolution. I'm really sorry but you guys are pissing around as if it will all be OK come the next election.a

Twenty five recs on social media is not a movement. It's about a millioneth of the resistance required to even move the needle against these guys. I don't like it any more than you do, even though I'm literally half a world away.

I'm looking at the fragility of a democratic society which, in essence requires people to DO THE RIGHT THING. Act with integrity and good faith Instead you have a cabal of liars, cheats, swindlers, unbalanced people, partisans - everything bad is now the daily way of life in the US.

The US is pissing around with hundreds of protests when what it really needs is millions of folk to take to the street and take it right up to these fascist bastards. No keyboard warriors, no videos, no podcasts. Get out there and fucking MARCH.

That is how large groups of people have always built or re-built things. Have a vision. Share it and believe it and share it again. It will take all manner of fighting (Churchill: " We shall fight in France and on the seas and oceans; we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air. We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and on the hills. We shall never surrender&quot . We fight everywhere. Not just marches.

25 recs is not bad in the middle of the night when the discussion forums are quiet.

With having a vision, building or rebuilding. However the US is not wartime Britain and I doubt that a great percentage of folk, immersed as they are in the soporific glow of social media, are prepared to admit, even to themselves exactly how much danger they are in.

This is not a fight for idealists and dreamers although there a place for them will be found. This is a fight for gritty realists, lovers of justice, the tough, the determined and the brave.

Fighting does not mean social media posts or videos. You're preaching to the converted. It's nothing more than a media churn of monetising YouTube channels. Personally, I'm sick to death of everyone who sets up a channel for political opinions and wastes half an hour to impart one minute of relevant information.

It's hypnosis by media, where the subjugated really believe they have a say in events but they do not. I'm sorry this is happening, but it will take REAL action to effect change.

spoof of Trump twice a week, using ALLCAPS even if Trump no longer does in his truthsocial posts. It is social media and it is effective. You can tell it is working because of the right wing trolls who get on and try and argue the opposite and post a photo of Charlie Kirk getting shot like a troll did tonight to try and stop a "I will not longer be able to afford my Healthcare and I will die" thread.

Differently. I used the internet from the early days and wondered even them how misinformation would affect the mindset of people. I'm cynincal with good reason.

Nothing wrong with Gavin's trolling but in itself, it's a very small thing in opposing trump.