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In reply to the discussion: More and more people are becoming aware of how screwed we the 99% are with no help [View all]grasswire
(50,130 posts)16. The Low Road
The Low Road
What can they do to you?
Whatever they want..
They can set you up, bust you,
they can break your fingers,
burn your brain with electricity,
blur you with drugs till you
cant walk, cant remember.
they can take away your children,
wall up your lover;
they can do anything you cant stop them doing.
How can you stop them?
Alone you can fight, you can refuse.
You can take whatever revenge you can
But they roll right over you.
But two people fighting back to back
can cut through a mob
a snake-dancing fire
can break a cordon,
termites can bring down a mansion
Two people can keep each other sane
can give support, conviction,
love, massage, hope, sex.
Three people are a delegation
a cell, a wedge.
With four you can play games
and start a collective.
With six you can rent a whole house
have pie for dinner with no seconds
and make your own music.
Thirteen makes a circle,
a hundred fill a hall.
A thousand have solidarity
and your own newsletter;
ten thousand community
and your own papers;
a hundred thousand,
a network of communities;
a million our own world.
It goes one at a time.
It starts when you care to act.
It starts when you do it again
after they say no.
It starts when you say we
and know who you mean;
and each day you mean
one more.
- Marge Piercy
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More and more people are becoming aware of how screwed we the 99% are with no help [View all]
Dragonfli
May 2014
OP
Fantastic cartoon. And the ignorant assholes need it thrown in their face over and over and over
nomorenomore08
May 2014
#25
That is part of the solution, I speak often to my neighbors and they are as poor as I am
Dragonfli
May 2014
#13
Strange, but that is the election when I first began to feel the way I now do
Dragonfli
May 2014
#18
Thank you, she has been gone 8 years now and I still don't know how I manage to
Dragonfli
May 2014
#49
Nothing about reforming the party in the OP. Just stuff about how we don't have a party anymore
redqueen
May 2014
#43
I don't like Republicans, that is true, even when they masquerade as Democrats while they laugh
Dragonfli
May 2014
#32
I think that if you make it a personal thing about him you would be called out
Dragonfli
May 2014
#35
Indeed, we are legion! United, organized and mobilized only extreme violence could stop us.
Dragonfli
May 2014
#38