I like the idea of duel citizenship better, lol. Reps for each nation square up and duel. Winner claims you.

Their power depends on our consent. We don't have to accept it. The whole system depends on our labor, consumption and compliance. If we withhold them the system and its power will be greatly diminished.

We don't have to accept the authority of an incompetent, unelected tycoon & the gang of fools who conned a heavily propagandized public to vote for them. We deserve better. Our descendants deserve better. But it won't get better on its own. We have far more power than we realize. Let's use it. 16/16

that the game is rigged for the top players. We've been conditioned into learned helplessness, into abdicating our own powers of agency and self-determination. We can reclaim them at any time. We don't have to keep playing a rigged game. We can refuse to play. We can demand change. 15/

We can revoke that consent at any time. We can refuse to create or consume their goods and services. Without our consent, they are powerless. We can make them irrelevant.
We in the US have been conditioned to comply, consume, obey, accept that life isn't fair, that the rich will cheat the system 14/

The Oligarchy gains its power from its wealth. Its wealth is created by us, the people whose labor & currency create the goods & services that build that wealth. The oligarchy only has the power and wealth it does because we consent to it through the willing creation and exchange of its products.13/

of what they will attempt. Their lack of intelligence, absence of self-awareness and ignorance to the true reality of the world are their weaknesses. We can outsmart and disempower them. But only if we exercise self-restraint and resist the urge to take the "easy" path of reactionary violence. 12/

They imagine themselves original colonial style rulers: brutal, merciless, "justified" in using extreme violence to maintain control. I believe strongly that resorting to violence in opposition to this regime will be disastrous and self-defeating. But I'm not advocating toothless acceptance 11/

The far right is hungry for violence, they've been preparing for it and have been waiting for an excuse to "punish" their perceived enemies for years. I see a similar bloodlust on the left, which I fear is playing directly into the playbook the incoming administration has prepared. 10/

Instead, it seems apparent that their hope is to accelerate the social unrest that has been slowly approaching boil-over until there is an incident that gives them an excuse to declare martial law & use the full weight of the US military to strip us of what few freedoms we still enjoy. 9/

But because they are ignorant of what it is like to struggle, overestimating their own competence to lead, and unaware of the true situation they are about to inherit, they will fail to solve any of the problems that are pushing our civilization to the brink. 8/

If the incoming administration were at all competent, they would understand that preserving the institutions they claim to value requires reducing the vast inequity in quality of life that is dividing the vast majority of their citizens from the narrowing "upper" class, not expanding it. 7/

about the exploding population of unhoused citizens & his campaign of "austerity" that will ask those of us who can least afford to sacrifice to suffer even more while using his "authority" as patron of the incoming Emperor-In-Chief to protect those with the most from sacrificing anything at all. 6/

but it's indicative of the sense of blanket superiority and complete lack of empathy the French aristocracy held towards "lower" classes. There have been no shortage of comparisons of this sentiment with the unelected shadow president Musk's glib and heartless comments 5/

a sense of entitlement to unchecked authority rooted in a self-proclaimed "divine" mandate, and a sense of callous indifference (and even delight) in the suffering of their own people. The phrase "let them eat cake" may not have actually been uttered by Marie Antoinette, 4/

Looking back throughout the history of the world, there's a pattern that is noticeable when empires are nearing collapse or revolutionary upheaval. They share familiar characteristics: a small ruling class with vastly more wealth & much higher quality of life than the majority of the population, 3/

But they were almost all born wealthy, so they've been protected from accurate feedback their whole lives. Not only are they unaware of their lack of intelligence, they also lack self-awareness and consider themselves brilliant leaders. This is setting us up for catastrophe. 2/

I think he's trying to distract from the real UAPs by throwing his own drones into the mix.