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Assert Good, Day 5: "when the veil lifts, then just go ahead and accept the dictatorship. Because institutions aren't gonna do it for us." "have a better path ready to offer then when they wake up" (lemm.ee)
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NOT my writing, I will add my own emphasis and commentary in a reply comment to this posting. Message from Reddit public social media comments on morning of Wednesday April 30, 2025:

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1kb3ysl/trump_seen_as_dangerous_dictator_by_most_voters/mptdbwu/

 

ReedTheChemist: Be skeptical of these “reports”, they don’t actually regret anything.

ReedTheChemist: These individuals are blind, gullible, and incredibly dim witted. 50% of the USA reads below a 5th grade reading level. They’re damn near illiterate. I’m sorry, I know how frustrating it is sharing the earth with humans that are essentially a different species.

Riaayo: This is not fucking true at all, and you're basically spitting in the face of the only thing that will stop fascism rising in the US: working class solidarity.

If you can't be there to off-ramp these people when the veil lifts, then just go ahead and accept the dictatorship. Because institutions aren't gonna do it for us.

I'm not saying coddle up with outright Neo-Nazis. But those people are not everyone who voted for Trump. Plenty are utterly tuned out voters who had Trump sane-washed by the media and who fell for right wing propaganda. And we can either have a better path ready to offer then when they wake up, or we can insult them and make sure they go right back into the hands of the GOP.

It doesn't matter if they deserve it, it matters if you actually want to stop this or not.

Saying every person who voted for Trump is scum of the earth, knew, and "don't regret it" is just functionally misunderstanding how fundamentally uninformed the American electorate actually is, let alone how manipulated by the media they are.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Assert goodness, all people are doing is joining MAGA values of asserting bad, asserting "hate harder", asserting Kremlin simulacra of "Americans hate Americans" messages...

Assert Goodness, Core points to focus on:

  1. "be there to off-ramp these people when the veil lifts"

  2. "institutions aren’t gonna do it for us."

  3. "functionally misunderstanding how fundamentally uninformed the American electorate actually is"

  4. "let alone how manipulated by the media they are"

  5. "it matters if you actually want to stop this"

  6. "who had Trump sane-washed by the media and who fell for right wing propaganda."

  7. "have a better path ready to offer then when they wake up"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

.2. “institutions aren’t gonna do it for us.”

To assert good, we have to face up to the nightmare of history. We must address a world-wide crisis. We, the USA, have had the best communications systems, the best information networks, the best "Great Library of Alexandria" since 1993, and we have let the Eternal September education / comprehension / understanding problem runaway on us.

We are in the land of confusion, and it is here and now, our generations must put it right. We must see where we stand in the nightmare of history and we must assert what goodness we have. We must stand up and make it be known. [email protected] "Plead Out Loud / Say It Out Loud" to the World Wide Web, to the Pale Blue Dot.

We will never ever have the world's attention like we do right now with the second term of Donald Trump in the spring of 2025. People have seen us stunned and shocked all January 2025 by Elon Musk, February 2025 by Elon Musk, March 2025 by Donald Trump, April 2025 by Donald Trump. We are in a crossroads of history RIGHT NOW on social media systems / World Wide Web Internet.

Our education and understanding problem of Eternal September 1993 has reached a problem so severe, our misunderstanding so deep, USA comprehension so misplaced...

 

"or we can insult them and make sure they go right back into the hands of the GOP."

It's worse than that, not just the GOP, but back into the nightmare of history itself. The world wide nightmare.

 

Please focus on, "her friend is no where to be seen. Now she walks through her sunken dream to the seats with the clearest view and she's hooked to the silver screen, But the film is sadd'ning bore for she's lived it ten times or more. She could spit in the eyes of fools as they ask her to focus on...":

  1. Sarah Lawrence College Professor solved the world religion problems in 1949. In 1986, 1987, 1988 with White House director Bill Moyers... George Lucas of Star Wars fame tried to explain to his audience that the crisis was solved in 1949, that James Joyce in 1924 to 1938 solved the world religion conflict problems. Metaphors. [email protected] - treat this as a literacy problem, a teaching problem, a language misunderstanding, poetry of metaphors vs. "square thinking", please focus on religions as science fiction that is misunderstood, poetry and rock music lyrics, being taken as non-fiction, often being abused by horrible clergy teachers and even the Roman Empire government system.

  2. Stop blaming "the media". The media is driven by human greed for attention, fame, wealth, power. These motivations are inside every person, we have to address the core behavior of humans world wide, the entire planet, the whole pale blue dot. The problem with "the media" is not new, that's what the clergy was doing in Middle Ages of Europe with The Bible media. That's what Saudi Arabia is doing in Mecca with "the media" of Mohammad's Quran stories. That's what Mecca is, a Disney Orlando Theme park for Mohammad's Quran stories. THINK BIG. We, the Americans / USA people alive in 2025, have the biggest Library of Alexandria in all human history, we have the cheap airport tickets and a passport that let us go almost anywhere. WE ARE THE ONES WHO HAVE THE EXPERIENCE and TEACHERS and EDUCATORS. We have the Star Wars Audience! We have to blame our failure to grasp metaphors, we have to blame our own self-centered egoism. We have to dig into all the kind of teachings of Malala fro Swat Valley Pakistan [email protected] and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from Atlanta. THINK EVERYONE, WORLD WIDE, we created the TCP/IP protocols and the Internet... we better work real hard to decide what S.O.S. Message in a Bottle we are leaving to the world in May 2025 as the USA is in free-fall from our education and comprehension heights, our World Wide Web World Leadership! We better spill the beans that we clicked the wrong things, baited the wrong clickbait hooks, and we focused on the shit topics and smeared shit of Reality TV / Reality Twitter upon the lands.

  3. I can not possibly use language or art to get my point across. Know where you stand in May 2025 on the world stage of the nightmare of history. "This is it", "There've been times in my life I've been wondering why... Still somehow I believed we'd (We The People) always survive. Now I'm not so sure... your waiting here. One good reason to try. What more can I say? What's left to provide? You think that maybe it's over... Only if you want it to be! Are you gonna wait for a sign? Your miracle? Stand up and fight! (This is it) Make no mistake where you are! (This is it) Your back's to the corner (This is it) Don't be a fool anymore (This is it) The waiting is over... No room to run, no way to hide! No time for wondering why! It's here, the moment is now 'bout to decide!"

(more to write / To Do / always needs rewrites / edits)