Economically dependent on their northern neighbor, business owners in Washington state are laying off employees and shutting their doors.

  • ragepaw
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    19 hours ago

    The protests have proven to be irrelevant and ignored. Trump and his idiocy has been protested for a decade. He’s been convicted of crimes, he was declared by a court to be a rapist, when he speaks, he clearly has mush for brains, people close to him have called him a racist, he formented an insurrection. And yet here we are…

    Clearly holding up signs, even in large groups is doing fuck all.

    Thomas Jefferson had something to say about what the situation calls for.

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      6 hours ago

      https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr/publications/35-rule-how-small-minority-can-change-world

      you need 3.5% of the population engaged in non-violent protest for guaranteed political change

      for the USA, that’s about 10m people - no small number… the protests keep growing. what’s your solution? because so far that’s the best idea that anyone has simply because

      Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts

      sure, the systems should be better equipped to deal with the situation, but they’re not… so it’s a shit situation, moving on from that: realistic paths forward?