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So I should be leaving a steaming pile of poop on every fourth front porch in the US? This is depressing, I only have so much poop.
Even if you pooped on a new one every day for 80 years, you'd only hit 29,200 porches. Alas, the shortcomings of human poop production hit hard in times like these.
However, if each of the 75019230 people who voted for Kamala would instead start shitting on the porches of the 25% (~90 million people), y'all will be done in less than two days. Such is the power of organizing!
I may need to cut my poops into bite-size pieces. Gonna need a new poop knife.
Just get a good honing steel and the one you have can last a lifetime.
Problem is that in dictatorships it doesn't really matter what the population thinks about government policy.
Then do something about it.
Jesus christ.
I have an idea, let's surround the Pentagon and levitate it!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_March_on_the_Pentagon
That helped.
That’s good and all, but Trump will still do whatever the hell he wants to even if he has negative approval he will still do it.
If only there was a system of government where the people could make decisions. Ahh, that would be too cumbersome when the number of people got to big, so maybe there could be a smaller group of people who are chosen to best represent those people's choices. Ahh, but once again that would leave idiots who could be swayed too easily making choices based on populism. Maybe if we added another smaller group of people to check that group to make sure the peoples will was not misguided.
That sounds difficult. Let's just give one person all the power so there isn't any time wasted on disagreement.
Also, this would be a big burden on a random person so let's just give it to someone who really, really wants the power. Then, they can teach their replacement how to wield that power. That takes decades, so it should probably be someone close to them, like maybe their kid!
I think I just solved democracy!
25% of Americans are stupid psychopaths who don't understand the consequences.
I think the US can't take any more territory at this point. Leave Greenland alone.