To all my followers:
If you are looking for PRACTICAL ways to FIGHT FASCISM, please follow @fightfascism
If you know of PRACTICAL ways to FIGHT FASCISM, please tag @fightfascism
We need to get organized and start focusing on real world things we can do -- BEFORE the sun finishes setting on the US and we find ourselves unable to talk or plan anymore.
Please boost. Things are getting real.
After that, we need to redesign our market economy to excise the capitalism from it. We don't need an oligarchy or an aristocracy, and we should do away with their means of sustaining themselves. We can support a free market, decentralized economy that *doesn't* concentrate wealth to obscene levels, that *doesn't* create the likes of Musk, Bezos, and Zuckerberg, that *doesn't* harvest rent/profit from every economic exchange, and that *doesn't* result in market instability and drastic corrections or collapses. We can do this by doing away with all corporate models that aren't either single proprietorships or cooperatives. No more stocks, no more stock markets, no more billionaires.
When we finish dispatching this wannabe king, we should turn our attention to the guillotine.
That's where Trump derives his power. He makes the little people feel powerful, even though they aren't. He gives them someone to hate, which keeps them occupied: the people he blames and targets (for his followers) and himself (for everyone else). And because of the division he sows, he is a useful patsy for the billionaires as they attempt to divide and conquer and distract, so they feed him money and support and humor his grandiosity. Fascism is just a tool to them. So is Trump, and so are all his followers.
The result is that wealth has continued to accumulate in the hands of those who already have an advantage. (It takes money to make money, as they like to say. Or, as I prefer to put it: It's expensive to be poor, because some rich fuck will use his money to leverage yours out of your hands.) If you look at wealth inequality in this country, you will see that in recent decades it has reached a fever pitch, leading to the Occupy Wallstreet demonstrations, the various bubbles and collapses we've seen including in 2008 when the market tried to correct but was stopped, and after that, the rise of populist candidates and general malcontent with "politics as usual".
The capitalist economy works by funneling wealth away from workers and consumers and into billionaire shareholders' hands. Its entire purpose is to turn economic exchange into a source of passive income for those who can afford to purchase the infrastructure used to generate wealth. In the past, we had ways to mitigate the inevitable concentration of wealth into the hands of billionaire capitalist investors -- wealth taxes and such. But for the last 50-75 years, those mechanisms have been muted or derailed, due to economic capture of our political system by the wealthy.
I think a lot of people miss the fact that at the root of our current political woes lies an economic one. People in this nation have always been racist, ablist, homophobic, transphobic, misogynistic, etc. That's awful, but it's nothing new here. But add to that mix a general feeling of powerlessness and deprivation, and it becomes easy to use that bigotry to stir people up and get them to support a fascist leader.
Bluesky sperrt JD Vance nach Anmeldung – leider nur kurz 
Ich wechsle doch nicht von eXTwitter ins Fediverse, damit dieser Typ und seine MAGA-Sekte hinterherkommt und alles verpestet 
Bluesky briefly suspends JD Vance after sign-up – sadly, just briefly!
I'm not fleeing eXTwitter just to see this guy and his MAGA cult follow and poison the well over here too.
#Bluesky #JDVance #MAGA #eXTwitter #Fediverse #NoMAGA
#TwitterExodus #SocialMediaMigration #NoFascists
I find it odd when Americans state “no kings” when protesting against Trumps takeover of democracy and plunging the USA into a fascist regime. I agree with the protests, don’t get me wrong, but when you talk about monarchy and nobility (which is somewhat required for that), Trump is as peasant as it gets. #nokings #nofascists
The size of the crowd at Trump's #dicktater #perade was comparable to the number of protest *sites* for No Kings Day. Let that sink in. Over 2,000 *places*, each of which had tens, hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of protesters. The difference wasn't a thin crowd vs a big crowd. It was a thin crowd vs a crowd of crowds. Sea to shining sea.
I've spent this entire day hyperfocusing on No Kings, to the exclusion of all else. My #autism is loving it! ;)
He put the estimate of the number of protesters today at ~12 million. That's quite a bit higher than other estimates I've heard, which started out at around 3 million around mid day, then climbed to 5 and then 7 million. If he's right, that's really close to the 3.5% mark.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world
What we did today meant something! But the fight is far from over. Steel yourselves!
The reporter, wearing a gas mask, stresses repeatedly and at length that the protesters were peaceful and the enforcement actions were unwarranted/over the top. 100% peaceful protesters can be observed in the background as the police fire tear gas, pepper spray, and other "less lethal" weaponry into the crowd.
Glad to see this on mainstream media.
#NoKings indeed, but also #NoFascists, #NoBillionaires, #NoGenocide, #NoRacism, #NoAbleism, #NoSexism/Misogyny, #NoHomophobia, #NoTransphobia, #NoImperialism, and #EndCapitalism.
And also remember, it's still #PrideMonth.
And, also, #Juneteenth is next week.
Wilmington blasting CSNY!
“Gotta get down to it, soldiers are cutting us down, should’ve been gone long ago!”
#NoFascists #NoKings 
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:iz462pt4vnpcdultohol2qon/post/3lrllkauhis2v
Hubby ready to pick up the neighbors and head into Port Orchard! (I, sadly, have crowd issues and will be cheering from the sidelines)
