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pat_k

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33. I should post Ariella Elm here too. The preamble to her 10/6 wins aligns with "Keep these brave souls in mind"
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 12:16 AM
Oct 8
https://ariellaelm.substack.com/p/three-wins-today-oct-6-2025

Three Wins Today: Oct 6, 2025
This moment will be less than a paragraph in the history books if we do this right.
Ariella Elm
Oct 06, 2025

Change is slow.

I know, you don’t want to hear it, but that’s reality.

A lot of people are waiting for that thing that happens that literally snaps us back to Jan 19, 2025.

That thing doesn’t exist. That thing can’t exist. There is no amount of resisting that will lead to an instantaneous turning point. That’s just not reality, that’s a superhero movie.

But each action adds up.

Consider the Montgomery Bus Boycott. We think about the actual boycott as the bulk of the work. It started Dec 1, 1955 and lasted 13 months.

But that was just the event that got attention, not the work leading up to it. It started when a group of Black women got together to form the Women’s Political Council of Montgomery in 1946, and the idea for the boycott itself was born in 1953.

They had to figure out every little detail to make it successful. How can you get around without taking the bus? Who do they need to meet with to lay out their demands? What do you say are the demands? How do you get every Black person in Montgomery to follow the requirements for a successful boycott?

It was a process. And each little piece was instrumental in creating the final boycott.

I use the Boycott because so many people look at it and see a very successful thing without any of the background and truly think it just happened.

I created a really poignant quote today:

Every little win gives us the tools we need for history to look back and think we stopped this overnight

We WANT history to look back on this period and see a turning point and decide it happened out of thin air, but in the moment that couldn’t be less what needs to happen.

Every protest, yes, even the ones where people are just holding up signs on the sidewalk is a piece of the process.

Every single second we resist, we are creating the environment for that big event that brings about the end of this regime, and the pervasiveness of the MAGA ideology as a whole.

But it’s not December 1, 1955. It’s more like 1950. The boycott is maybe an idea that’s been thrown around a few times, but the focus is on brainstorming “what can we do to overhaul the Montgomery bus system?”

We are brainstorming, we are trying things and seeing what works, and we are succeeding time and time again.

But it’s going to be a while of this before we hit on that event that is in the history books in 50 years. This part might be a paragraph in a book exclusively about that event. And it’s the most important paragraph of that entire book.

So we MUST keep fighting every single day. Apathy now will ensure that book never exists cause we won’t succeed.

Use the power of one, figure out where you fit in and make sure to amplify everyone who already has.

Every single of one us has the power to change the world.

I hope you find joy in today’s wins. All three of them are inching us one step closer to taking back this country, and the world.
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The Federal gov't is being "run by a CEO", Buddyzbuddy Oct 7 #16
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🤞 SSJVegeta Oct 7 #17
Making note! usaf-vet Oct 7 #18
I'm glad Yarvin thinks Trump is failing. poli-junkie Oct 7 #19
I think Yarvin expected a full dictatorial takeover by now. usonian Oct 7 #21
The dictatorial power is already there. poli-junkie Oct 7 #22
That made me feel good newdeal2 Oct 7 #23
Vance is guided not just by the insanity of Yarvin, but by Posobiec's dystopian vision of fascism saving the world. pat_k Oct 7 #24
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Oh my, I hadn't noticed that milestone. And in about 7 weeks, it will be 21 years on DU! pat_k Oct 7 #29
Good for you! usonian Oct 7 #30
I should post Ariella Elm here too. The preamble to her 10/6 wins aligns with "Keep these brave souls in mind" pat_k Oct 8 #33
Looks like an OP to me. usonian Oct 8 #34
I would bet the farm that tRumps fail will be to start a civil war that he and his fellow fascists can't win ImNotGod Oct 7 #28
I'm not seeing it, but I'm no "seer" usonian Oct 7 #31
"It is failing because its true mission, which neither it nor (still less) its supporters understand..." Jim__ Oct 8 #35
I guess so. To Yarvin et. al., a Nazi regime or technocracy is the goal. usonian Oct 8 #36
It's failing because its true mission is based on boneheadedly simple-minded thinking which utterly ignores reality. eppur_se_muova Oct 8 #40
Selfish, psychopathic idiot valleyrogue Oct 8 #38
GTFO Yarvin Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 8 #41
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