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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 09:21:13 JST Paul Cantrell

   • Dan Sinker

   True, @dansinker, and and there’s nothing more indicative of how widespread that desperation is then how widespread the glee is over what this guy did.
   https://omfg.town/@dansinker/113625546983476414

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 09:23:19 JST Paul Cantrell

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     It’s not that there haven’t always been people who are desperate and suffering. It’s not that there hasn’t always been rage at CEOs and health insurance companies. But it definitely feels like we are in uncharted territory now.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 09:47:23 JST Paul Cantrell

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     I'm not sure that’s all entirely a bad thing. Folks have been sleepwalking; we’ve been waiting for someone to come save us. The optimist in me says maybe we have a chance to shed that. The resigned pragmatist in me says maybe societal destabilization is the only way to end oligarchy.

     But I'm not sure it’s all entirely a good thing either. Conditions now feel ripe for demagoguery, savior-seeking, witch-burning, all kinds of ugliness. Trump was elected on this same unmoored desperation.

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     Jenniferplusplus (jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 10:02:05 JST Jenniferplusplus

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     @inthehands it's not the only way, and definitely not the best way, but it is the way of last resort. And all of America's power centers have been fighting ruthlessly to close off all the other ways for years.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 10:10:03 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Jenniferplusplus

     Yeah, exactly, what @jenniferplusplus says:
     https://hachyderm.io/@jenniferplusplus/113625826810512509

     Our leaders, our free press, our laws, the rule of law itself, the political process, the electorate itself, community, hard work, decency, tolerance, patience, what have you: all the things that are •supposed• to protect us, •supposed• to bend the arc of the universe toward justice, all have failed.

     What happens when people truly believe that nobody and nothing is coming to save them? We’re about to find out.