"The primary thing guiding the political culture of the US -- and this has been happening for a long time, long before Trump -- is fear of abandonment." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/stay-and…
"It's the fear not of suffering in silence, but of suffering and screaming for help while people cover their ears or pretend they can't hear you or look the other way. Because that's how government and corporations treat people." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/stay-and…
"This apathy to suffering is increasingly how everyday people have treated each other over the past two decades. Social media has made it worse, dehumanizing people and normalizing mob harassment." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/stay-and…
"The Trump admin represents this abuse on a macro scale -- an abusive POTUS who no one truly stands up to. I've heard from so many people who had abusive parents who see this dynamic -- abuser parent backed by enabler parent -- in govt." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/stay-and…
"This dynamic leaves people in a primal state of fear. It's causing that 'fight or flight' response. Please keep fighting and have each other's backs. We are grateful for everyone fighting while under threat -- and it's a LOT of people." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/stay-and…
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"Don't give up on yourself. Don't give up on the idea of a better future for yourself in the US. It is *your country*. You still have rights, despite what Mike Lee tells you. And you will have to be very resolute in fighting for them." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/stay-and…
"We keep telling you, this is a transnational crime syndicate! It's *transnational*. That means if you leave the US, you're not going to escape it. They have their eyes on Canada and the rest of Europe too." -- @AndreaChalupa on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/stay-and…
"In autocratic countries, the judicial system functions as the cage bars. If you have courts packed with fascist sympathizers selected to sustain that system, where do you go to fight for your rights?" -- @AndreaChalupa on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/stay-and…
"If confirmed, ACB will be the third SCOTUS justice to have worked directly on the Bush v Gore case that handed the election to the GOP. ACB is being put in place as Trump suggests that SCOTUS will decide his election." -- @AndreaChalupa on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/stay-and…
"Autocracy is legalized corruption. They bend and change the laws, ignore the laws, or use the laws to their own ends, because in an autocratic system judges are controlled by the crime family in power." -- @AndreaChalupa on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/stay-and…
"The US hasn't had, as a nation, a collective mourning for the victims of this pandemic. We haven't had a lowering of the flag. We've had none of the symbolic actions that bind a country together in a time of tragedy." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/our-mala…
"We're a country which doesn't have trust in authority and doesn't have authorities we can trust. We've lost sources of trust like local news. If we had it, people would have known what was happening early in the pandemic." -- Tim Snyder on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/our-mala…
"Truth is about courage. Truth is not about accepting the obvious or the apparent or what other people think. Truth is about courage -- it's about saying the thing that people *don't* want to hear." -- Tim Snyder on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/our-mala…
"We have been thinking about freedom in the wrong way. Americans define freedom so narrowly that we turn it into a ghost. Freedom should not only mean the things you can do when you're already healthy." -- Tim Snyder on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/our-mala…
"Freedom is about imagining different unpredictable futures and how you might influence them along with other people in their own unpredictable, beautiful, unique ways." -- Tim Snyder on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/our-mala…
"The freedoms that we have don't make any sense without healthcare. The Founders knew this; they were preoccupied with health. But nowadays, we talk about freedom in a narrow way that excludes the body and its rights." -- Tim Snyder on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/our-mala…
"There was a time when you could think pain was productive, that there was a reward from the pain of labor. That American Dream, which was a result of both post-WWII prosperity and the welfare state, no longer holds." -- Tim Snyder on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/our-mala…
"When over and over again, pain doesn't matter -- where do you end up? Instead of feeling that you suffered for some purpose, you end up with a feeling that nothing makes sense. That's not the fault of the individual in pain." -- Tim Snyder, @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/our-mala…
"We live in a country without a proper medical system. Under that system, you turn from someone who is proud into someone who is resentful. When there is a lot of pain in the system, our politics start to become about pain." -- Tim Snyder on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/our-mala…
"The last four years were the biggest period of protest in US history. People forget in particular how many protests there were in early 2017, including the April 2017 Tax March in 150 cities where 120K people demanded his tax returns." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/donald-t…
"There were so many protests in early 2017: women's march, climate march, march for truth, tax march, etc. But the protests slowed when Mueller was appointed and Americans were given the grand delusion of a savior." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/donald-t…
"As @gaslitnation warned in 2018, Mueller was not appointed to actually take down Trump and organized crime. He was there to run a placeholder probe which both quelled the protests and crushed citizens' hopes when they finally learned of the deception." patreon.com/posts/donald-t…