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> Even when you educate them they're so shell shocked by the news that they're willing to let the powers that be shepherd them into servitude. We're all megafucked.

The shell shocked attitude that's followed by complacency is exactly, "We're all megafucked," possibly in other words.

It's exactly that attitude that we need to steer away from, no matter how grim the landscape looks. That's step 1 to change.

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if correcting one's attitude is step one, what is step two? voting? what real victories have been won on this front recently? and i'm not advocating for extremism nor am i advocating for complacency, the game just seems stacked with zero possibility of change.

I have recently gotten involved in local government and local community-supporting non-profits. The US as a world power and example of virtuousness seems to be on its way to the dustbin, so I am focusing on protecting/making healthy my community.

If our local community can become strong enough, we may have a chance to survive to see what the next attempt at national/federal(/world?) government might look like.

It's one of the few ways I can think of to do something positive and legal. And non-violent.

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