SILVER LINING UNITED
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Everything shared here is rooted in the Constitution and nonviolent civic resistance. This is about restoring democratic norms. Withdrawal of consent means refusing unlawful abuses of power, peacefully. That’s how free people protect democracy.
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Just as a sociopaths demand that others surrender their autonomy to serve their ego, authoritarian leaders demand that citizens surrender their sovereignty to serve power.
The goal is the same: replace self-governance with submission, conscience with loyalty, and agency with obedience.
The goal is the same: replace self-governance with submission, conscience with loyalty, and agency with obedience.
December 27, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Just as a sociopaths demand that others surrender their autonomy to serve their ego, authoritarian leaders demand that citizens surrender their sovereignty to serve power.
The goal is the same: replace self-governance with submission, conscience with loyalty, and agency with obedience.
The goal is the same: replace self-governance with submission, conscience with loyalty, and agency with obedience.
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Autocracy tries to capture the public mind by making the leader omnipresent and unavoidable. The defense is pluralism: people who remain self-connected, institutions that stay unbranded, and spaces that don’t revolve around power.
When culture and conscience refuse capture, the illusion collapses. 🇺🇸
When culture and conscience refuse capture, the illusion collapses. 🇺🇸
December 21, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Autocracy tries to capture the public mind by making the leader omnipresent and unavoidable. The defense is pluralism: people who remain self-connected, institutions that stay unbranded, and spaces that don’t revolve around power.
When culture and conscience refuse capture, the illusion collapses. 🇺🇸
When culture and conscience refuse capture, the illusion collapses. 🇺🇸
If we want people to leave authoritarianism, we cannot make repentance impossible. Welcoming defectors with discernment isn’t softness, it’s how regimes lose their grip.
Accountability without dehumanization is strength.
Cynicism that blocks exits only serves the system we’re trying to dismantle.
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Accountability without dehumanization is strength.
Cynicism that blocks exits only serves the system we’re trying to dismantle.
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December 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
If we want people to leave authoritarianism, we cannot make repentance impossible. Welcoming defectors with discernment isn’t softness, it’s how regimes lose their grip.
Accountability without dehumanization is strength.
Cynicism that blocks exits only serves the system we’re trying to dismantle.
🇺🇸
Accountability without dehumanization is strength.
Cynicism that blocks exits only serves the system we’re trying to dismantle.
🇺🇸
Authoritarianism wins when people believe:
“I am not capable of freedom.”
Democracy survives and thrives when people remember:
“I can think, choose, repair, and belong without surrendering my conscience.”
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“I am not capable of freedom.”
Democracy survives and thrives when people remember:
“I can think, choose, repair, and belong without surrendering my conscience.”
🇺🇸
December 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Authoritarianism wins when people believe:
“I am not capable of freedom.”
Democracy survives and thrives when people remember:
“I can think, choose, repair, and belong without surrendering my conscience.”
🇺🇸
“I am not capable of freedom.”
Democracy survives and thrives when people remember:
“I can think, choose, repair, and belong without surrendering my conscience.”
🇺🇸
They hate this :
Trump’s latest address avoided threats of invading other countries. That restraint matters. It suggests the military isn’t moving on his personal whim, and that there are real limits being enforced behind the scenes.🇺🇸
Go everywhere you can and spread it.🇺🇸
Trump’s latest address avoided threats of invading other countries. That restraint matters. It suggests the military isn’t moving on his personal whim, and that there are real limits being enforced behind the scenes.🇺🇸
Go everywhere you can and spread it.🇺🇸
December 18, 2025 at 7:49 AM
They hate this :
Trump’s latest address avoided threats of invading other countries. That restraint matters. It suggests the military isn’t moving on his personal whim, and that there are real limits being enforced behind the scenes.🇺🇸
Go everywhere you can and spread it.🇺🇸
Trump’s latest address avoided threats of invading other countries. That restraint matters. It suggests the military isn’t moving on his personal whim, and that there are real limits being enforced behind the scenes.🇺🇸
Go everywhere you can and spread it.🇺🇸
Trump’s latest address avoided threats of invading other countries. That restraint matters. It suggests the military isn’t moving on his personal whim, and that there are real limits being enforced behind the scenes.🇺🇸
December 18, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Trump’s latest address avoided threats of invading other countries. That restraint matters. It suggests the military isn’t moving on his personal whim, and that there are real limits being enforced behind the scenes.🇺🇸
Anyone else getting the vibe: can’t govern, can’t lead, so manufacture a foreign crisis. Venezuela as a distraction from corruption and failure at home — chaos as strategy, donors smiling. When leadership collapses, war talk follows.
December 18, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Anyone else getting the vibe: can’t govern, can’t lead, so manufacture a foreign crisis. Venezuela as a distraction from corruption and failure at home — chaos as strategy, donors smiling. When leadership collapses, war talk follows.
“We cannot have homeland security unless we understand that the whole planet is the homeland”
-John Perkins
m.youtube.com/watch?v=dNXb...
-John Perkins
m.youtube.com/watch?v=dNXb...
John Perkins - Economic Hitman
YouTube video by DefendYourFreedom
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December 17, 2025 at 11:29 PM
“We cannot have homeland security unless we understand that the whole planet is the homeland”
-John Perkins
m.youtube.com/watch?v=dNXb...
-John Perkins
m.youtube.com/watch?v=dNXb...
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Every Republican and Democrat of the House who voted against articles of impeachment is complicit in his crimes. An executive that demonstrates contempt for the constitution cannot claim the authority vested in it. Their failure is a reflection of their cowardice to reflect on their conscience.
December 13, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Every Republican and Democrat of the House who voted against articles of impeachment is complicit in his crimes. An executive that demonstrates contempt for the constitution cannot claim the authority vested in it. Their failure is a reflection of their cowardice to reflect on their conscience.
Every Republican and Democrat of the House who voted against articles of impeachment is complicit in his crimes. An executive that demonstrates contempt for the constitution cannot claim the authority vested in it. Their failure is a reflection of their cowardice to reflect on their conscience.
December 13, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Every Republican and Democrat of the House who voted against articles of impeachment is complicit in his crimes. An executive that demonstrates contempt for the constitution cannot claim the authority vested in it. Their failure is a reflection of their cowardice to reflect on their conscience.
America created the conditions that produced Trump, and America can reject, disempower, and delegitimize him the same way: through civic action, democratic pressure, and a refusal to cooperate with authoritarianism.🔥🇺🇸
December 12, 2025 at 5:13 AM
America created the conditions that produced Trump, and America can reject, disempower, and delegitimize him the same way: through civic action, democratic pressure, and a refusal to cooperate with authoritarianism.🔥🇺🇸
It’s this type of massive public demonstration combined with economic boycott and civil disobedience that the United States we’ll rid itself of the current lawless regime in power. 🇺🇸
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Bulgarian government resigns after weeks of street protests
Bulgaria's government resigned on Thursday after less than a year in power, following weeks of street protests over its economic policies and its perceived failure to tackle corruption.
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December 11, 2025 at 9:17 PM
It’s this type of massive public demonstration combined with economic boycott and civil disobedience that the United States we’ll rid itself of the current lawless regime in power. 🇺🇸
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This is one of my favorites from DC this month!🇺🇸
December 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
This is one of my favorites from DC this month!🇺🇸
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Authoritarian regimes fall when people stop cooperating: civil servants refuse illegal orders, workers walk out, communities boycott the enablers, institutions resist, millions fill the streets, whistleblowers defect from the regime.
Nonviolent noncooperation makes illegitimate rule unworkable.🇺🇸
Nonviolent noncooperation makes illegitimate rule unworkable.🇺🇸
December 8, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Authoritarian regimes fall when people stop cooperating: civil servants refuse illegal orders, workers walk out, communities boycott the enablers, institutions resist, millions fill the streets, whistleblowers defect from the regime.
Nonviolent noncooperation makes illegitimate rule unworkable.🇺🇸
Nonviolent noncooperation makes illegitimate rule unworkable.🇺🇸
Trump turned the Kennedy Center Honors, a nonpartisan celebration of the arts turned into a prop for his ego. Celebrities used as set dressing, and the whole thing staged like a campaign commercial. It’s not about honoring artists it’s about manufacturing optics. We ALL see it.
December 8, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Trump turned the Kennedy Center Honors, a nonpartisan celebration of the arts turned into a prop for his ego. Celebrities used as set dressing, and the whole thing staged like a campaign commercial. It’s not about honoring artists it’s about manufacturing optics. We ALL see it.
Authoritarian regimes fall when people stop cooperating: civil servants refuse illegal orders, workers walk out, communities boycott the enablers, institutions resist, millions fill the streets, whistleblowers defect from the regime.
Nonviolent noncooperation makes illegitimate rule unworkable.🇺🇸
Nonviolent noncooperation makes illegitimate rule unworkable.🇺🇸
December 8, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Authoritarian regimes fall when people stop cooperating: civil servants refuse illegal orders, workers walk out, communities boycott the enablers, institutions resist, millions fill the streets, whistleblowers defect from the regime.
Nonviolent noncooperation makes illegitimate rule unworkable.🇺🇸
Nonviolent noncooperation makes illegitimate rule unworkable.🇺🇸
Trump putting his name on the Department of Peace exposes a showman who enables harm. And his Rwanda–Congo ‘peace deal,’ without binding and transparent safeguards, is just extraction dressed up as peace.
December 4, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Trump putting his name on the Department of Peace exposes a showman who enables harm. And his Rwanda–Congo ‘peace deal,’ without binding and transparent safeguards, is just extraction dressed up as peace.
Earth to Eve, she rocks!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqx7...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqx7...
I turned today’s headlines into a protest song. “Have You Heard the News Today?” Out NOW!
YouTube video by Earth To Eve
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December 2, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Earth to Eve, she rocks!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqx7...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqx7...
We are the corruption. But here’s the truth: democracy fails when people go quiet, and it survives when people wake up. We’re the firewall. We’re the guardrails.
If this country is going to pull back from the brink, it’ll be because the people refused to give up their power.🇺🇸
If this country is going to pull back from the brink, it’ll be because the people refused to give up their power.🇺🇸
December 2, 2025 at 3:49 AM
We are the corruption. But here’s the truth: democracy fails when people go quiet, and it survives when people wake up. We’re the firewall. We’re the guardrails.
If this country is going to pull back from the brink, it’ll be because the people refused to give up their power.🇺🇸
If this country is going to pull back from the brink, it’ll be because the people refused to give up their power.🇺🇸