We never used to get studded tires BUT the climate has changed dramatically. It used to get cold and stay cold but now it may be 40 and rain then drop into the teens, leaving a slippery ice coating. Studded tires help a lot. A 4-wheel drive vehicle can get you going but they cannot stop or steer any better than a 2-whell drive vehicle.

spend the $10-$20 and get a windshield cover

You can use cardboard in cold weather, or even clean floor mats.

A fall might cost you thousands of dollars in medical bills. Get boots or shoes with good traction soles. For hard packed snow or ice get spiral type slip on ice-creepers unless you are going to be outside only, then get ones with studs. Walk like a penguin if caught one ice without them.

native Americans

Even they are being snatched off streets and “detained”.

In most cases just the noise from a gun will be enough but a rabid raccoon might need dispatched. Also, some of are too old,or fat, to run from an animal.

angry clowns

We are stuck in a surreal angry clowns horror movie.

Yes, but do you support those who have pollution spewing private jets like Amazon and Meta, to name just a few? Do you support candidates who will take necessary actions against climate change? Do you grow a garden and cut firewood?
Half the population could cease to exist without much effect but if a few thousand of the one percent ceased to exist it would make a massive impact.

Artificial sugar also triggers hunger. That’s why you often see people with a diet Coke in one hand and a Snickers bar in their other hand.

A cashless society means your overlords will have COMPLETE control of your lives. Of course the oligarchs will have secret avenues of cash for themselves.

Seriously, if you are AWARE of propaganda, you are also aware that you have been influenced by it. Propaganda is pervasive in civilizations. It is simply manipulation. TV ads and guys trying to pick up chicks are everyday uses of propaganda.

I don’t miss the thousands of obnoxious, foul mouthed folks on FB that I routinely blocked. Haven’t experienced any of that on the fediverse yet.

“My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.” - Carl Schurz:

It’s our civic duty to make our country better.

Some people may need to move because because they aren’t safe here right now.

Some people need to be removed, one way or another.

the DNC is the last place to find actual conservatives these days.

There is a good reason for this. Money to win elections comes from CONSERVATIVE corporations and populism isn’t on their wish list.

Nearly $3 billion USD flowed through the TRUMP cryptocoin

But wait, there’s more. Us taxpayer money will now be used to “invest” in these crypto scams.

Didn’t they say climate change was a hoax or was that just for their brain dead cult followers? Amazing how easily they are manipulated. It’s like Republicans captured all the media then spewed shit to dominate them, but hey, it works magnificently.

Hold off. Kraznov is getting so much shit he is going to walk it back, so he says. Can’t trust him any more than a rabid bat though.

Perhaps a better question is, “What are you doing to help?”.
Supporting a national strike, canceling Amazon, leaving FB, might be a good start. Contacting you representative who doesn’t represent you seems to be futile. Maybe flash protests?

Exactly! All a person has to do is to look around - the right buys up all popular media platforms and converts them to propaganda outlets.

Probably the oligarchs. They have been trying to install fascist dictatorships for a very long time.

Mostly sales and the self projection of being "cool.