Contact them. Flood their inboxes, chats, and phone lines.

Worse, Project 2025 wasn’t written by one guy, but by a large team of people (mainly the Heritage Foundation and a handful of related groups). This plan was generated by groups of idiots, by a coordinated conservative ‘think tank’.

Many of the problems you pointed out aren’t bugs to them, they’re features. Their goals are very misaligned from ours. If you see it through their lens – of accelerationist dominionism – many of those points aren’t problems, but methods to reshape society to serve their particular goals.

For example, they want all of public education to collapse so that all education can become evangelical church-based. Teachers shouldn’t need to be certified beyond a religious education. They’re already very fond of spinning up universities and giving people the flimsiest of PhDs. Look at the number of Christian authors with ‘Dr’ before their name, then see where they got their doctorate and what it’s in. They do not care about education, except that kids should be able to read the bible and learn extra things for common professions, like working with numbers. If all teachers are housewives with training in the bible and the 4Rs, they think that’s a good thing.

They want to put the lower classes in their place, and that includes religiously. This is pretty clearly a blueprint for a christofascist utopia.

e: links. Also, many in the groups associated with this project are self-avowed dominionists.

Time to buy a ham radio?

Did you know your anus has taste receptors?

You’re welcome.

What’s the over/under on Polio for 2026?

He’s lowered prescription drug prices by 1500%, too.

Like numbers mean anything to this deranged ape.

I was in that scene in the 80s. Been thinking about it a lot lately, it’s hard.

Bon Jovi’s crew had a designated chaperone, and I thought that was weird at the time. It was cool, though. I do appreciate it now. They wouldn’t allow the drugs or the sex – some roadie crews had that, and others didn’t, there was none of that (eta: the really bad stuff) in my circles, but I heard about the bad ones. I was like 15 at that time.

I’m not trying to silence anyone. Quite the contrary – it’s past time to do something about this.

It’s too late for that. Fascism doesn’t care about laws, only loyalty.

I was thinking the bear belonged to window guy. That the guy jumping out the window was that dumb kind of tough that does reckless things like jumping out glass windows and riding a bear.
Definitely wouldn’t have got it without the context.

e : and I thought the joke was that’s how dumb-tough guy thinks he has to evacuate a building, because that’s how it’s done, like in movies.
So there was a punchline in my head, but it was quite wrong.

Because in the grand scheme of everything ads have so little effect on life

That’s objectively untrue, though. It’s just so effective, you don’t notice it anymore, and that’s kind of scary.

Wow. So glad this is what’s on what’s left of his mind. Not soaring prices or atrocities committed in his name. No, this is what matters.

Anyone else see a red circle at their feet, or is that just me?

Well, yeah. Regulations are a major part of society, and a major reason we tend to come together. Yet another reason libertarianism is misguided.

You literally can do that.

Why do people seem to think this is impossible?

What’s changed? Some parts of that life are sometimes illegal, but most people haven’t been against it like this.

What’s different?

Well yeah, I get that. But there are plots for really cheap, but they don’t have any kind of access to water, sewage, or whatever. Plots for like 10,000 or less. That sounds like a lot, I suppose, but it isn’t. I think it’s more that people don’t understand how money works,

Of course I do. And again, that’s my point.

People romanticise this, but it’s impossible for many reasons. You can easily try, but we have societies for a reason.

Everyone is free to do this, but good luck in practice. It’s not just hard, and it’s not just stupid, but why the fuck would you want this? It’s insane, and we’re not geared for this.

Life in the wilderness is not a Disney movie. It’s so ruthlessly difficult, that’s why society exists. We are stronger, safer, and happier together.

Yes, that would need to be the plan. One upfront payment then never paying for utilities or other things forever. That’s the only way this works. You don’t need income, because you live on rabbits and fish and your garden. If your house burns, you put it out with buckets from your stream. You build your house yourself by cutting down trees.

If you get sick, you either die or you don’t.

I think this is madness, but that’s how you do this.

But you never have to pay for utilities, rent, taxes for schools or roads or services … obviously it wouldn’t be completely free to purchase the land.

Yeah, but ‘nobody wants to be there for a reason’ is my whole point.

It will absolutely suck for you. That’s why civilisation is better, and also why we have to make some concessions to be in a society.

There’s no utopia where everything is perfect. There never was.

If you want societal amenities, you have to pay for them in some small way, and if you don’t, your life will be very hard. Those have always been the choices.