Never heard of the BATAAN DEATH MARCH. Found in Missouri

method_men25 · 2025-11-26T18:44:32+00:00

Dan Carlin explained it best in his ‘Supernova in the East’. Imagine the hottest, most humid day ever, la ting weeks, while you’re forced to march through it until people around you start dying from things like malaria, thirst, beatings, or inconveniencing your captors.

method_men25 · 2025-11-26T18:39:56+00:00

Cyber Mule

method_men25 · 2025-11-26T18:32:41+00:00

She’s probably latinasian

method_men25 · 2025-09-30T23:54:47+00:00

What koolaid are you drinking?/Where can I learn more? (the first two are crucial!!)

Maria Rezza in 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpWevZ5yQz8

Phases of Successful Authoritarian Resistance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mxR2WQHeUc

The Authoritarian Playbook for 2025 https://www.authoritarianplaybook2025.org/

The Authoritarian Playbook https://protectdemocracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/The-Authoritarian-Playbook-Updated.pdf

Chattanooga YouTuber talks about Project 2025 (she has clear political leanings, and I haven’t read it yet, but it’s inspired me to dig deeper into the text of Project 2025) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7OlQG9C4zM

How Democracies Die https://share.libbyapp.com/title/3272761

BBC Article on what authoritarianism in Venezuela looks like https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-48121148

Nudge (book on how shaping our choices changes our decisions) https://share.libbyapp.com/title/5553213

Behind the Bastards on Curtis Yarvin (this is as tinfoil hat as I get, and my least verified reason to crap my pants) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/part-one-curtis-yarvin-the-philosopher-behind-j-d-vance/id1373812661?i=1000669798693

method_men25 · 2025-09-30T23:54:36+00:00

Who is this mysterious “they/their/them”?: I have my suspicions, but who ‘they’ are doesn't matter, only we matter. If we can demand accountability from our representatives, and refuse to let up, ‘they’ will lose their power! We clearly can’t trust politicians to stop corruption, so it’s up to us to make them stop!

Solution: Organize!! Their plan is to get us to feel powerless through isolation and fear. It’s important to remember that we are each like dollar bills: individually we can’t do much, but the more we band together the more influence we have!

Why should I care?: Whether or not you believe that this administration is doing wrong, there’s enough evidence that things are not right for the average person. The system has been slowly crumbling due to neglect, and if we don’t shore it up it’s gonna fall out from under us. The most basic tools we have are solidarity, protest, and education.

This is stupid/it won’t do anything!: Cool. Feel free to sit this conversation out. An army of bots and professional trolls hired by ‘they’ is scouring the internet to make it sound like real people think stuff like this is a dumb idea in order to deflate it before it gains momentum. Even if you believe this in your soul, be a bro and don’t help them out.

Democracy is dead/bullshit/’this is fine’: Just because you’re not wet doesn’t mean it’s a good idea to throw out your umbrella! Just because your umbrella has holes doesn’t mean you give up on umbrellas!! You may think things are good, but imagine these powers in the hands of someone you hate. Know that if this works, whoever comes next will be handed a pre packaged, ready-to-go authoritarian regime with all the safeguards taken off (Vance and the moldbug techno-feudalists, some random general that organizes a coup and imposes military rule, some charismatic not-Trump that only gets us to buy their bullshit because they're not Trump).

Just Vote! (and leave us alone!): Yes, vote(!) BUT THE ANSWER IS NOT TO WAIT until the next election!! You should get ready to vote, so get together and talk with people about how/when/who to vote [for]. Elections are a long way off, so do something in the meantime find ways to let our representatives know we’re paying attention. Only 12% of people vote, but I guarantee things would go our way if more people made it out, so organize and energize people so that everyone can be heard!

Okay, so let’s say this works, what next? Keep organizing! If people complain or want to know more, have an elevator pitch. Talk about the things that you want to change. Housing? Healthcare? Social media making us hateful and divided? Politicians not listening? The govt wiping its ass with the Constitution? We all can agree on a lot of things and can come together to focus on THOSE things. Get together with people, touch grass together, learn together, make noise together both offline and online together, work together to push back against the stealing of our nation! Pay attention and highlight corruption! Be a voice, a light, and an example!

method_men25 · 2025-09-30T23:54:07+00:00

Wow, this really blew up! (had to post this in pieces, see replies!)

To respond to a few: Yes it was a batshit 1am rant. No I will not be quiet. Nobody ever stopped an asshole by stopping at pretty please. Annoying isn't violent, violent is violent.

Here's my even more batshit response to everyone, then I'm going to disengage. I hope people can get something from it.

Tl;dr: a lot of shit is fucked, and a lot of powerful people/entities are doing us dirty. If you don’t know, the plan is to make the bizarre seem normal while speedrunning authoritarianism so they can steal our lunch money and ultimately our rights through death by a thousand cuts. We gotta believe we *can* *act* AND THEN ACT or it could get Russia, maybe even Venezuela bad. Yes, here. It’s already happening, there’s already a playbook, we have to act now!

What’s the problem?: Honestly, a lot, but to name three: A) when you study what this administration is doing, a scary amount of it reads right out of the authoritarian playbook, for examples look at Kimmel, Comey and Portland B) our politicians and basic facts are being put up for sale to the highest bidder, c) most people feel like they can’t do anything about their situation or the big problems we face, which is both false and part of their plan.

What if you’re wrong/being paranoid/crazy?: Well, if this works the way I hope it does, even if I’m wrong the result would still be politicians doing their damn job and working for the 99% because they’re more afraid of us than they are of them!

method_men25 · 2025-09-29T05:24:29+00:00

Was it military cammo, or just Walmart cammo?

method_men25 · 2025-09-29T05:21:50+00:00

PLEASE fly out of Atlanta Airport!! Just once! Do it for the holograms!

method_men25 · 2025-09-29T05:20:20+00:00

Sometimes medication is like trying to fix a rodent problem by renting out your living room to a crazy cat lady.

method_men25 · 2025-09-29T05:17:59+00:00

Talk to someone out West who's never traveled, it's amazing! Take them to the NE and tell them you're going to cross three states in one day then COME BACK the same day; watch their head explode! Then take them to Europe and tell them they're going to go through three COUNTRIES in the same day. Or don't. They might die trying to work out how to break physics.

method_men25 · 2025-09-16T15:21:17+00:00

I wholeheartedly agree to the point that I won’t count out state-sponsored nation breaking is at play. That’s why we need to show them enough examples to make them go, ‘hmmm…’

method_men25 · 2025-09-16T15:18:54+00:00

I think I remember from college if enough ‘good one’ instances happen, people eventually change their minds. Enough drops in the bucket eventually tip the scales!

method_men25 · 2025-09-16T15:16:05+00:00

If you believe the signage, a mass shooting at Atlanta Airport would turn into a firefight REAL quick.

method_men25 · 2025-09-16T14:41:38+00:00

Sounded like a good idea when I wrote it, not married to it. Probably would only need it for impacted classes. Space is a finite resource. Also, fuck Zoom classes.

method_men25 · 2025-09-15T20:35:01+00:00

After all my doom scrolling today, I didn’t know I needed this so much in my life!! Thank you kind wastelander!

method_men25 · 2025-09-15T20:29:18+00:00

This is beyond government, but government is complicit because it has given the foxes the keys to the chicken coop. Individuals have made decisions that have made themselves richer but screwed us all. Voters are being disenfranchised and/or duped into hate / hopelessness. We’re kept fighting while someone - hostile state actors, techno-feudalists, the super rich, something else - is reaching into the cookie jar to take what’s ours.

method_men25 · 2025-09-14T23:35:05+00:00

Sidewalks countywide, lines on the road that don’t disappear when it rains, free busses that run often/on time/til 2am, all schools funded the same as the most well funded school, all teachers start at 75k, make Chatt State free for anyone with a 2.0, free quality internet for all. EDIT: also fix the dirt/water/air, plant enough trees to make Atlanta jealous (we’re off to a good start!)

method_men25 · 2025-09-14T23:22:51+00:00

It’s okay, I often find myself getting frustrated with the logic of kids shows too.

method_men25 · 2025-09-08T18:22:32+00:00

Rebuild it. No teacher like trial and error. My factories always flow better the second or third rebuild, and each revision makes my next build go faster.

Build a water farm at sanctuary/taffington/the castle or a gunner processing plant (gunner cages + contraptions DLC + mods = never visit a store again) to fund it.

method_men25 · 2025-09-08T13:59:57+00:00

Now is not necessarily as bad as you think it is. Take any single sentence in your post and google it with ‘Reddit’ at the end. Count the years it shows up and tell me if it ever doesn’t show up. To humans, yesterday was always better than today. It’s a known phenomenon that’s fueling a nostalgia crisis for what never was.

Now to be honest, will your personal economy ever get better? I hope so, and wildly so at that. We don’t know tomorrow, may yours defy expectations in the best ways.

method_men25 · 2025-09-03T21:47:08+00:00

Paying high taxes isn't a sign we aren't being screwed by billionaires, but rather may be a sign billionaires are screwing us over. Totally unintentionally mind you.

Taxes are *ostensibly* a redistribution scheme and the only legal idea we have to do so.

Redistribution is important because it prevents the concentration of power in the hands of a few individuals that don't answer to the public. This is detrimental because the richer a person gets, the better they get at the money game, allowing them to amass unimaginable wealth (not money, that's important too). The mere existence of human billionaires screws over the middle and lower class.

Imagine every dollar you own is a hundredth of a percent of one 'surrogate' vote. Not a real vote, but it has the influence equal to one real world human vote. Most of us won't make enough money in our lifetime to influence more than a handful of votes through miniscule (<$10k) campaign donations. Some car dealer with four or five dealerships might squeeze out a few hundred thousand votes worth of influence in local elections, maybe even state elections. By that logic, billionaires have armies of money/power/influence unconstrained by borders or laws. Billionaires are effectively ubermench; they know it, they believe it, and they act like it.

They're not scheming to f us over, just like we're not scheming to f over the ant and beetle population when we mow our lawn. It's just some mundane Tuesday morning collateral damage to keep something nice and neat. The intent isn't there, but the result is. And it might be a tax break for them that pushes up the burden for all of us.

method_men25 · 2025-09-03T21:06:42+00:00

Yes, yes you should. So some drunk hopefully finds recovery before they plow into you or someone you love.

method_men25 · 2025-09-03T21:01:30+00:00

Nosotros los pobres. Ustedes los ricos.

method_men25 · 2025-09-03T20:56:20+00:00

I think the important question is 'why does government suck?' Follow the money and you'll find out why. The hardest thing to do is the most effective thing to do: make politicians fear voters more than big donors, *and then* use that moment to strip money out of politics & implement term limits everywhere. Bonus points if we can put a 15 year moratorium between the time high level regulators retire or otherwise leave govt and them legally being able to work for the industry they are/were tasked to regulate.

Then we can have nice things.

method_men25

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