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Comment by mvdtnz

3 days ago

More excuses.

I'm not sure you what you expect a single commenter on HN to do. They're not making excuses, they're stating a reality. The commenter could protest, but it won't make someone protest in a city that is insulated from all of this .

I have voted in every election and have not voted for any in this administration. The wife and I have been to the protests in Omaha. Every one. When there was a walk-out day, the wife and I stayed home, did not shop.

Yeah, it feels to me that our actions have had zero effect but I am at a loss as to what else to do that is legal.

Look at history when other fascist regimes moved in and ask yourself what a single, ordinary person at the time could have done to have prevented it.

I suspect (like history has shown), it's going to take as long as it takes until enough of us can collectively shut the shit down. In the mean time my gestures will, sadly, have nearly zero impact.