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user-inactivated  ·  2822 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Blackwater founder held secret Seychelles meeting to establish Trump-Putin back channel

    What people can do is express their anger and spend their money on organizations with more power than they have.

This is what I'm talking about. Not sitting idly around the bonfire, but at least helping those who do their best to quench it.

Or did you think I'm not for practical measures? It's just that it's not all there is to it. There's mindset people follow that has led to this nonsense. Not directly, but allowed it, and in allowance, narcissistic strongmen thrive. One thing led to another, and soon enough, there's a whole road to hell paved neatly before you. Cause and effect isn't just before you: it's a massive chain of consequences.

I'm not claiming to know it all, but something happened that led to where we are, whether it's a senile narcissistic idiot or a former intelligence agent who shot his way to the top. To figure out what that something is to find a way to unfuck whatever mess there is.

EDIT: Not to pussy out of my own argument, I'm gonna tell you what I think about myself in this respect.

What I did was to keep quiet and not rock the boat. People like their boats steady 'round here, and hell, so do I. I keep glancing over the small things that happen around me because "that's just the way it is".

What I can do is educate people about what's going on, why it's bad and how they can do better. I'm not a fighter, and I'm not an orator. Neither am I a lawyer or a public person to advocate in front of the crowd. My place is in front of a group of people, opening their eyes to the reality of things that I keep so much time meticulously studying. It isn't as down-to-earth as practical folks like you would like, but theory is no less important than practice, whatever the trade.

This is what I did, and this is what I can do.