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Trump says it’s fine for Kim Jong Un to have nuclear weapons because ‘he likes me’
(www.independent.co.uk)
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Those points are exactly it. Midwestern American here, living in a red state and also just lost my job a few weeks ago, so i barely get any benefits after COBRA takes it's share to keep my health insurance going.
What exactly am I meant to do? I can use my imagination to extrapolate the tankies messages, but i don't own a weapon. So, that would cost my unemployed ass $500 just for a starter pistol that could barely hit center mass 10 yards away, and would most likely be a survivable wound.
Alright so let's help my odds, and just like that it's $1500+ just to get some distance and some stopping power. But i also need ammo and additional training and probably some accessories to increase my chances of success and cool I'm looking easily at a final cost of $2500.
So that took over half of my total unemployment benefits for a singular purpose, and now I'm desperately needing change and now the time comes to make a "martyr" of myself and someone else for what exactly? Freedom? I currently have that, albeit as a frog in warming water that organizing with the other frogs to better our situation vs losing everything with life in prison.
So, I get maybe one shot and I don't think there's a single target in the whole world that could instantly improve the country's outlook drastically overnight. Seriously. Any one target anyone can think of has a backlog of equally shitty humans behind them ITCHING to step in with a new purpose and a fresh martyr and trillions of dollars in backing just waiting for someone stupid enough to even do much as try.
The whole system is rotted through and through and would take a serious overhaul to fix. This isn't chess where removing a single piece off the board wins. We have to also go after those that are forcing us to play their games and rigging the rules against us.
And right now we still have organizing, voting, and boycotting. We need to build our own economy, separated from this currently rigged one by shopping local, and electing local officials that can incentivise businesses to do better for our communities, and regulating home ownership to lower costs, and then incentivise citizens to cut our own emissions with greener energy, which then liberates us from oil.
Once we have our local economies established, that sets up a baseline to tie in with other communities to take back a state or two or 5.
It's hard, but very possible to do without the initial violence. Then they can be tried for their crimes against humanity.