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      I won’t be happy. Last government shutdown saw our national parks get destroyed by visitors due to the lack of enforcement as well as certain businesses taking advantage of the brief shutdown to illegally harvest resources from the parks.

      Honestly there are two paths to removing a fascist dictator: General strike that marches onto the Capitol and hold those accountable, or 2A as the Founding Fathers explicitly detailed and intended for The People to use.

      Before some numbnut goes “hurr wot can people do” forgot the recent uprising in the Phillipines, Brazil prosecuting their dictator, and going further back how America gained independence from the British ala guerrilla warfare.

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      i don’t know of a fed in the colonies that provides services, i know about the one that jails a shitload of people and does war though

      is that the one you are talking about?

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        If you aren’t even here (who tf calls it the colonies?) or know enough to talk about it, then you really need to shut up about it. “The Fed” here refers to the Federal Reserve. If that shuts down we are very fucked. But it appears you are trying to talk about the federal government. In which case there are an assload of departments which protect the people and our interests. If the federal government gets shut down, they do as well. Not just the shitty parts suffer.

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          i live here, i call them the colonies because its a colonial slave empire

          ppl keep talking about all these great services the federal government supposedly provides but all i see is a hellscape of walmarts and prisons

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            Then you aren’t very observant or well read. Which is making your position fall flat. You can’t just ignore reality and pretend there aren’t good departments or good things that exist. That’s ignoring a great deal to make a shakey and rather flippant assertion.

            If you want to just say uninformed bullshit you aren’t any better than the MAGAts that ignore facts and give equally ignorant opinions. Know what you are talking about, or be open to being wrong at least and then learning from it by going and reading or hell, even watching a half decent educational video.

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      “The government” can be your hyperlocal full-participation commune council. OPs post is specifically about the US federal government, not governance in general. Eventually that machine is going to break itself irreparably, and seeds need to be ready to grow from it’s corpse so that as few people as possible fall down through the gap in support.

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    the federal reserve? that’s what “the fed” usually means. I’m thinking you mean the federal government? either way, I hope you have a backup plan.

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    I have no strong opinion on the U.S. federal government. But if the federal reserve calls it quits, you can kiss the global reserve currency goodbye.