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ck4829

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5. I'm always looking for things to do. Is it the greatest? No.

Reply to TommyT139 (Reply #3)

Mon Jan 20, 2025, 07:26 PM

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I have seen post after post of "there's nothing we can do" or "we're stuck with this"

I'm a reader of From Dictatorship to Democracy by Gene Sharp.

https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/126900/8008_FDTD.pdf

I'm not going to do the government approved virtue signaling of "nothing" or being a "good American"

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