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“White male billionaire discovers accountability”

I’m both laughing and completely serious when I say that A Bug’s Life is our salvation

💯 absolutely. Caring for each other and leaning into community is a HUGE part of this

Thank you for taking the time to read!

This is not checkers or chess; we’re playing poker, and they’re bluffing. Call them on it.

Not everyone will have equal ability or safety in shaking things up. So many marginalized groups are being targeted and terrorized. That means people with more privilege need to step up doubly, triply.

Getting out of freeze/shutdown/dissociation/overwhelm physically can mean small steps. Rocking from side to side. Grounding. Breathing. Similarly, you don’t have to do it all today. Don’t think too far if it’s immobilizing. Just start punching holes and rocking the boat. Then do it again tomorrow.

It’s a situation for fight, and they’re hoping we won’t get there. Do. Literally ANYTHING you do - protesting, organizing, changing where you shop, disrupting ICE, striking, boycotts - punches a leak into the HMS fascism.

Researchers at Harvard found that just 3.5% of a population participating in nonviolent protest was sufficient for large scale change (Chenoweth & Stephan, 2011). 3.5!!!!!

They know perfectly well that they depend on us in countless ways for compliance and for cash flow, and that it’s actually a precarious balance. They also know that they are vastly outnumbered by moderate, working-class people.

These responses are immobilizing and make sense when a threat is so powerful that fight and flight wouldn’t work. But right now, that is NOT the situation we’re in.

President Trump promised shock and awe and that is what he has been delivering. This tactic is designed to create confusion, paralysis, and helplessness. The nervous states associated with these are freeze, dissociation, and shutdown.

Whoop!! I love it

Checkmate.