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If we try to resist them through conventional political channels or through the court system, we will lose. We’re playing the enemy’s game on the enemy’s turf.

Truly effective resistance is withdrawing from the corrupt culture. We have to get rid of Amazon, Netflix, social media, credit cards, pharmaceuticals, and debt, and instead spend our time and money on a home gym, chickens, local meat, generators, and vegetable gardens.

We are in a war. It’s time we started acting like it.

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No truer words were ever spoken!!! We are our own worst enemies! People don't get it! They enable all of it! Want real change - as you say do away with all of it!! I would die before I supported Amazon - watched TV - owned a cell phone let alone partake in social media (the greatest waste of brain cells the world has ever known) - never had a CC card because it was money I believed I didn't have and pay cash for everything! It is the easiest way to put an end to all of this - the problem being we now live in the most narcissistic society and people only think and focus on themselves - therefore getting exactly what they deserve!

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Sadly, only a fairly small number of people will be able to pull their lives away from them; most don't have the resources to divorce themselves from the powers that be. Those who do could do a lot of good making room for those who cannot, and helping them find ways to separate themselves from the grid.

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I have much less sympathy than you do. Yes, not everyone has the resources to get a generator or some land. But everyone has the ability to kill their Facebook accounts and throw their TVs away. But they won't because it's hard and people don't do hard things anymore.

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Trust me, I don't have sympathy for people who refuse to cut the cord on social media and traditional media. That is the first thing people need to do if they want to regain any semblance of an existence devoid of marketing and propaganda. As you note, though, I do hav sympathy for thiose who lack the resources to prepare for planned shortages and outages.

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