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atoav 2y ago
The question is what is there to do now, especially for those living in the US. My opinion is that probably strong and organized civil resistance is probably the only good venue now. Be it churches, clubs, unions or whatever. But not individuals in their homes.
- MrMcCall 2y ago
  Go within yourself, connect with our Creator. Beg It to make you a servant of love. You have good ideas. Bolster them with the power of love, my friend. It's our entire purpose, and love requires fighting injustice and cruelty. As to what to do? Connect with the Source and let It guide you. "There's God's side and the other side." --Katt Williams
  - computerthings 2y ago
    > "There's God's side and the other side." --Katt Williams This reminds me of one of my favorite things: > Now I am enjoying the last rays of the sun again, marveling at the incredible beauty of everything that has not been created by man. The red dahlias at the white garden gate, the tall serious fir trees and the trembling golden birches with their now shining trunks in front of all the green and rust-colored foliage, the golden sun that enhances the luminous colorfulness of every single thing instead of, like the glowing summer sun, smothering everything that still wants to move next to it. Everything is so astonishingly beautiful that I do not yet know what kind of feeling my speechless heart should develop for it, for it is not yet mature enough for pure joy; it is amazed and content with delighted astonishment. > Isn't it puzzling enough, and if you don't know the reason for it, almost frightening, that everything is so beautiful? Despite the terrible things that happen. Something great and unknown has intruded into my sheer joy in everything beautiful, namely a sense of its Creator, whom the innocent created creatures praise with their beauty. > Therefore, only man can actually be ugly because he has the free will to separate himself from this song of praise. And now one could often think that he is capable of roaring over this song with the thunder of cannons and cursing and blasphemy. But I realized last spring that he can't, and I will try to side with the victors. -- Sophie Scholl in a letter to her friend Lisa Remppis, October 1942 Of course just boiling it down to "love" is prone to misunderstandings, and bringing up "God" is like whipping out a hand grenade on HN. People with different perspectives read these words differently, and of course we get triggered by the religious fascists it makes us think of; but what can you do. Yet also: > But I have learned that a hard spirit without a soft heart heart must be just as unfruitful as a soft heart without a hard spirit. I believe the sentence comes from Maritain: "Il faut avoir l’esprit dur et le coeur tendre". A word that is not experienced by the soul is a dead word, and a feeling that is not the womb of a thought is in vain. -- Sophie Scholl, January 1942
    - MrMcCall 2y ago
      Thanks for sharing her beautiful work, my friend. > but what can you do? Our love must be fierce in defense of the innocent. We must love God with all our being; only then can we more perfectly bring Its love down to this paradise in the face of all the terrible people around here. God bless you, and may peace be with you. I am at your service.
- DarknessFalls 2y ago
  Now is the time to search for a strong opposition voice within the Democratic Party. While Biden was in office, Trump never shut his mouth. The Democrats need to be doing the same. Holding rallies, making TV appearances. Representing the close to 50% of the country who are watching this unfold in horror.
  - cyberge99 2y ago
    Democrats need to go on the offensive and hard. Call Trump a scumbag in public. When the loudmouth bully magas speak up, remind them that Traitor trump is a sexual predator. Remind them he’s an insurrectionist and failed businessman. Remind everyone, everywhere that he’s horrible by every single measure. A convicted conman. Make up lies about Republicans and repeat them. Play dirty. They only get defensive when you tell lies about Republicans. They wear ignorance as a badge.
    - atoav 2y ago
      Yeah, but for that they need pressure both from the inside and the outside. Apparently D representatives receive a ton of phonecalls from their constituents, which is already a good start. But what is also needed is more and younger people running within the party and for office to create more pressure for bolder messaging and more decisive actions. The D party had the problem of being perceived as the status-quo party, and that perception IMO is not wrong if you look who is in positions of power within the party. So if the Dems want voters to drop Trump in the next election they need to undergo a massive transformation, especially age-wise (maybe with the sole exception of Bernie Sanders who aleays was popular with people from both sides).

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The question is what is there to do now, especially for those living in the US. My opinion is that probably strong and organized civil resistance is probably the only good venue now. Be it churches, clubs, unions or whatever. But not individuals in their homes.

MrMcCall 2y ago
Go within yourself, connect with our Creator. Beg It to make you a servant of love. You have good ideas. Bolster them with the power of love, my friend. It's our entire purpose, and love requires fighting injustice and cruelty. As to what to do? Connect with the Source and let It guide you. "There's God's side and the other side." --Katt Williams
- computerthings 2y ago
  > "There's God's side and the other side." --Katt Williams This reminds me of one of my favorite things: > Now I am enjoying the last rays of the sun again, marveling at the incredible beauty of everything that has not been created by man. The red dahlias at the white garden gate, the tall serious fir trees and the trembling golden birches with their now shining trunks in front of all the green and rust-colored foliage, the golden sun that enhances the luminous colorfulness of every single thing instead of, like the glowing summer sun, smothering everything that still wants to move next to it. Everything is so astonishingly beautiful that I do not yet know what kind of feeling my speechless heart should develop for it, for it is not yet mature enough for pure joy; it is amazed and content with delighted astonishment. > Isn't it puzzling enough, and if you don't know the reason for it, almost frightening, that everything is so beautiful? Despite the terrible things that happen. Something great and unknown has intruded into my sheer joy in everything beautiful, namely a sense of its Creator, whom the innocent created creatures praise with their beauty. > Therefore, only man can actually be ugly because he has the free will to separate himself from this song of praise. And now one could often think that he is capable of roaring over this song with the thunder of cannons and cursing and blasphemy. But I realized last spring that he can't, and I will try to side with the victors. -- Sophie Scholl in a letter to her friend Lisa Remppis, October 1942 Of course just boiling it down to "love" is prone to misunderstandings, and bringing up "God" is like whipping out a hand grenade on HN. People with different perspectives read these words differently, and of course we get triggered by the religious fascists it makes us think of; but what can you do. Yet also: > But I have learned that a hard spirit without a soft heart heart must be just as unfruitful as a soft heart without a hard spirit. I believe the sentence comes from Maritain: "Il faut avoir l’esprit dur et le coeur tendre". A word that is not experienced by the soul is a dead word, and a feeling that is not the womb of a thought is in vain. -- Sophie Scholl, January 1942
  - MrMcCall 2y ago
    Thanks for sharing her beautiful work, my friend. > but what can you do? Our love must be fierce in defense of the innocent. We must love God with all our being; only then can we more perfectly bring Its love down to this paradise in the face of all the terrible people around here. God bless you, and may peace be with you. I am at your service.
DarknessFalls 2y ago
Now is the time to search for a strong opposition voice within the Democratic Party. While Biden was in office, Trump never shut his mouth. The Democrats need to be doing the same. Holding rallies, making TV appearances. Representing the close to 50% of the country who are watching this unfold in horror.
- cyberge99 2y ago
  Democrats need to go on the offensive and hard. Call Trump a scumbag in public. When the loudmouth bully magas speak up, remind them that Traitor trump is a sexual predator. Remind them he’s an insurrectionist and failed businessman. Remind everyone, everywhere that he’s horrible by every single measure. A convicted conman. Make up lies about Republicans and repeat them. Play dirty. They only get defensive when you tell lies about Republicans. They wear ignorance as a badge.
  - atoav 2y ago
    Yeah, but for that they need pressure both from the inside and the outside. Apparently D representatives receive a ton of phonecalls from their constituents, which is already a good start. But what is also needed is more and younger people running within the party and for office to create more pressure for bolder messaging and more decisive actions. The D party had the problem of being perceived as the status-quo party, and that perception IMO is not wrong if you look who is in positions of power within the party. So if the Dems want voters to drop Trump in the next election they need to undergo a massive transformation, especially age-wise (maybe with the sole exception of Bernie Sanders who aleays was popular with people from both sides).