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> your resistance probably falls into either "helpless" or "stupid," since it doesn't really do anything to check Trump's power

Some combination of "helpless", "lazy", and "stupid", like the narrator in Niemöller's poem "First They Came." [1]

It is to do nothing except to fret (and to post on social media), despite knowing that eventually no one will be spared by energetically unethical monsters.

[1] _ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_They_Came



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