I was always good at playing "chicken" - nerves of steel, man. Or maybe just stupid, but I prefer to call it courage. And honestly, humans are largely cowards so if you stand your ground it's a safe bet that they'll back down no matter how Billy Badass they present themselves.
So I'm thinking about how we outnumber our Billy Badass politicians exponentially, yet we perceive them to have all the power, and therefore we are scared to stand up to them. They threaten us with arrest, and fines, and violence, and destroying our very way of life.....and we cower before them because we really haven't thought this through.
They can't arrest us all. They can't teargas us all. They can't impose fines that we refuse to pay. They whine about Jan 6 but if we really wanted to take over the Capitol bldg, or even the White House, there's not a lot they could do about it. If we wanted to storm the Bastille and put their heads on a pike, there is literally nothing they could do to stop us.
As it stands, we're chicken. They push, we push back, they push harder, and we chicken out. We've been domesticated to the point that we'll put up with all manner of subjugation rather than move our ass off the couch. But there will come a time when We the People have truly had enough.....
I'm thinking in particular about the reinstatement of lockdowns and mask mandates. What if we all simply refuse? Tell them to piss up a rope and go about our normal lives? What are they gonna do, arrest us all? Have Twitter trolls call us names?
I'm not advocating violence (unless they start it), I'm simply saying that this power play of theirs only happens in cities/states where the populace is chicken. You shoulda seen them in New Braunfels and Branson when lockdowns and mask mandates were in play last year. The people were like, "Yeah, **** you," and largely went about their business. Finally the overlords had to chicken out. They "officially repealed" a mandate that nobody was abiding by anyway. "Okay, you can go back to your normal lives..." "Gee, thanks, Boss.
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There is historical precedent - both globally and in the US - of the citizenry getting fed up and staging a revolt. Sometimes they don't have the stomach for it and they chicken out, but many times they succeed in overthrowing their overlords and taking their country back. In fact, politicians and kings and dictators are such whiny little bitches beneath their Billy Badass exteriors and command of armies that they bail rather quickly, especially when said armies and other enforcers mutiny and join the revolution.
Will it come to that here in the US? I hope not, but our overlords are becoming more and more emboldened and with the invention of "delta variant" and threats of more oppression, it's not looking good.
So I'm thinking about how we outnumber our Billy Badass politicians exponentially, yet we perceive them to have all the power, and therefore we are scared to stand up to them. They threaten us with arrest, and fines, and violence, and destroying our very way of life.....and we cower before them because we really haven't thought this through.
They can't arrest us all. They can't teargas us all. They can't impose fines that we refuse to pay. They whine about Jan 6 but if we really wanted to take over the Capitol bldg, or even the White House, there's not a lot they could do about it. If we wanted to storm the Bastille and put their heads on a pike, there is literally nothing they could do to stop us.
As it stands, we're chicken. They push, we push back, they push harder, and we chicken out. We've been domesticated to the point that we'll put up with all manner of subjugation rather than move our ass off the couch. But there will come a time when We the People have truly had enough.....
I'm thinking in particular about the reinstatement of lockdowns and mask mandates. What if we all simply refuse? Tell them to piss up a rope and go about our normal lives? What are they gonna do, arrest us all? Have Twitter trolls call us names?
I'm not advocating violence (unless they start it), I'm simply saying that this power play of theirs only happens in cities/states where the populace is chicken. You shoulda seen them in New Braunfels and Branson when lockdowns and mask mandates were in play last year. The people were like, "Yeah, **** you," and largely went about their business. Finally the overlords had to chicken out. They "officially repealed" a mandate that nobody was abiding by anyway. "Okay, you can go back to your normal lives..." "Gee, thanks, Boss.
"There is historical precedent - both globally and in the US - of the citizenry getting fed up and staging a revolt. Sometimes they don't have the stomach for it and they chicken out, but many times they succeed in overthrowing their overlords and taking their country back. In fact, politicians and kings and dictators are such whiny little bitches beneath their Billy Badass exteriors and command of armies that they bail rather quickly, especially when said armies and other enforcers mutiny and join the revolution.
Will it come to that here in the US? I hope not, but our overlords are becoming more and more emboldened and with the invention of "delta variant" and threats of more oppression, it's not looking good.
