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Trump says he’ll seek ‘long-term’ control of DC police and signals he’ll target other cities next
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Well, if you have an idea how to do that before we get rid of this regime, I'm all ears.
If millions of you start behaving the same in a passive aggressive way then people will have to react. Drive the speed limit. Everywhere and bottleneck the roads like the French farmers do Bottleneck parking lots. Bottleneck any area that has a lot of semi trucks. Take longer at intersections to go and stop for those yellows. Take longer to fill your car with gas. Take longer to unpack your groceries at the check out. Pedestrians take longer to cross and exit the crosswalks closer to the green. But things on Amazon and return them. Buy things at box stores and return them.
If millions of you do this roads and streets will back up and be congested. Maybe take a day a week and do it by something that’s important to MAGA people. Pick politicians and get to the airport before that are due in. Strangle the roads for them. Make them wait and idle in frustration.
The problem with the US is that the people that want to stop this, mostly live in more concentrated cities and college towns.
The places that the red hats frequent are hours of driving from these places, and the few places they are concentrated, there are so few lefties that it’d be impossible to slow anything down. There are a 100 million of us, but we’re mostly concentrated along the coasts and urban centers.
If we could get our farmers to not worship the shitheads in charge, it would be a different situation.
If you grid lock a city for a day or really slow down a portion of a state for a week ripples will be made in the economy. Regardless of Red or blue, economic ripples are not good. When countries stated slowing selling off US treasuries Trump was forced to react.
You don’t need all the cars on the road to drive 50 in a 55. 30% spread out or smaller concentrated groups will have a huge effect on traffic
If people want to protest and hurt the government, then they need to do something other than talking.
https://nypost.com/2023/09/01/activist-stunts-like-d-c-traffic-jam-hurt-the-climate-cause/
https://tasks.illustrativemathematics.org/content-standards/HSN/Q/A/tasks/84
Are you asking how to abolish encampments and prisons? Because Americans did so perfectly well on 2021-01-06. Why they don't seem to do so for ICE says everything about the bigotry that Americans wish to persist.
Wait, what? What are you trying to compare there?
A whole bunch of criminals were pardoned or not even charged because the current regime implementing the concentration camps had sympathizers and pardoned them themselves.
Are you saying you won't get pardoned for freeing legal migrants and tourists from illegal encampments even if the empire will pick another fascist?
Every day folks suffer in these death camps, is another day Americans show their complicity for dehumanization.