Education is not going to solve our immediate problems, but it is essential to solving our long-term problems. For the short-term, organizing means finding ways that large number of people can apply pressure. Shifting our spending habits may be the most effective. The super wealthy and their corporations still rely on all of us handing over our money to them in exchange for good or services. Working to change local and state-level voting patterns is also viable, since a lot of the enablers are politicians who want to keep their jobs.

Nothing we do right now is going to stop Trump from hurting a lot of people, although we may be able to limit the damage. The early stage of most fascist takeovers counts on broad public support. There are already enough of us to make that harder for them. And there will be a lot more of us fairly soon, once Trump’s supporters begin to suffer directly because of his policies.

Even when there is nothing immediate to do, we need to keep looking for opportunities. There will be some. And the better advantage we take of them, the less damage will be done. And the sooner we can remove the oligarchs from power.

Pitting generations against each other is just another way to distract people while they are being robbed and enslaved by the super rich.

It’s simple. You re-evaluate your priorities.

I like you.

Rarely have I seen anyone who is so legitimately entitled to be smug.

I wish him a speedy recovery. May he ticket again soon.

Becoming cat furniture is a noble calling.

Yes. I, my wife, and several friends have had intermittent problems with long-delays in message delivery. In some of those cases, neither of the phones involved moved, which rules out most of the common explanations. I’ve considered disabling RCS entirely, but a recent move to Signal has made this less of an issue.

Any cat takes a lot of patience. A cat that’s been living wild is going to be scared at being trapped and will be harder to befriend. Give it some space and some time to adjust. Move slowly and speak gently. Offer food and treats on a regular basis. The cat will eventually decide you’re okay.

If you haven’t already, I recommend you talk with a vet and with your local SPCA or Humane Society. They can give you a lot of useful advice about the details.

You’re a good person. Don’t get discouraged. It will get better.

It’s hard to see snow against snow, but I think I see the path behind it and heading to the left.

In any case, my respect to the badass cat.

I’m running a media server with 90 TB of storage across a bunch of drives. Having a case that can handle 16 full-sized drives, plus 4 SSDs is a game changer.

Thorin has excellent taste in cases. And in boxes. All-in-all, a remarkable cat.

(I have their Meshify XL case.)

Americans do have a spine. The problem is that too many of them are no longer connected by functioning brains. Those spines are what elected Trump.

Bernie is a national treasure. And no one who hears him speak will wonder about whether his mind is still sharp.

The perfect quote from “The Newsroom”:

Will : “The only reason I seem liberal is because I believe hurricanes are caused by high barometric pressure not gay marriage.”

I’m pretty sure he realizes it. What he doesn’t want is for everyone else to realize it too.

I’ve been a Washington Post subscriber for almost a decade. I just cancelled.

Now I need to figure out which independent news organizations that money should go to instead.

That is a life well spent.

G.

That is a cute puppy!

Possibly the best line of dialog ever spoken from a movie screen.