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  • That’s amazing that you’re seeing a mix of ages! I haven’t seen a lot of kids but at the last protest I was talking to people my own age and the one constant I tell to EVERYONE is that starting to do something should begin with clearing your head and turn off the corporatist noise.

    I cut the cable TV service to my home and got rid of the television in 1999. It’s a hard sell, but I always bring up that streaming servies and public libraries exist to get media to watch.

    People just have to avoid the mainstream “news” and I explain that as with the current FCC chair interfering with broadcasters, right now, ALL TV news sources are subjec to Trumps whims and pandering by distorting or ignoring reality.

    Just turn it off and find the kids - literally the under 35’s - who are earnest, hungry and fearless and check out what they have to say. Get your info on moderate or left leaning blogs and read a lot of commentary and news from other countries. No facebook, twitter or tiktok… It’s owned media as untruthful as FoxNews…

    I’ve found that to get a long term effective change you need to start with cutting out the lies and noise. The rest falls into place so much easier. I’m starting with the noise.


  • Yup. People old enough to remember how shitty life is for everyone living under an authoritarian boot have been the majority of who’ve I’ve seen at the previous protests

    This is what is known as generational amnesia, where those who’ve had zero exposure to actual political horror have no clue what is about to drop on their heads, so they ignore it.

    It happens, and its not accidental that now almost every person that fought NAZIs during the Second World War is now dead, and their kids who grew up post-war witnessing the nightmares their fathers had afterwards, are all in their 80’s and dying as well, and the great grandkids have no interest to listen to “ancient history…”

    It’s not devoid of younger people, by any stretch, but I have been surprised by how many seniors I’ve seen at the protests.













  • And this is why I’m glad I no longer watch TV.

    (though in reality, the separation came in 1999 when we got broadband internet)

    Time for everyone with folks over 45 that still tune in and watch broadcast news to drop them stories like this and ask them if this was how the Soviet Union used to behave. Even better if you’ve got grandparents in their 60’s.

    Put that reminder into their heads. Seriously.

    It’s time to set the mental foxes into the henhouses of complacency.