Hi, I’m LemonDifficult, and I’m bad at being part of a community. Bad at accommodating social expectations, bad at participating, bad at warmfuzzy. Even worse at listening to political drivel from people so hyperfocused on the tiny aspects they’ve been sold by their side that they can’t begin to look at the bigger picture. All that and I’m still here. The topics being covered by LoyalMoses are that important, and they’re part of a much larger effort to continue to shift the already stacked game further away from all of us.
I, like LM, am a former government employee. Contractor turned civil service doing CyberSecurity & CyberDefense for an arm of the DoD. Wrote several alternative interpretations of the laws to get around doing things they would have done anyway through whatever legal justification could be created.
Again, similar to LM I live off-grid, solar, private well, etc - nothing like LM’s farm/ranch responsibility - but our goals remain similar. Fight the open, systematic elimination of independence, personal autonomy and personal ownership. The president, your representatives, the congress, the Senate, whoever it may be, aren’t going to save you. Your beliefs or values, regardless what they are, have no weight in this fight. Most importantly- social media and getting the word out are useless by themselves. Protesting has almost no meaning anymore.
But I’m here - cynical as I may be- because it’s that important. Every inch they gain is almost impossible to get back.