I’m on a road trip with my daughter, so I’ll let the numbers speak for themselves.
Thorbites - 300
Scorchsky - 300
Suevisa - 300
Cisco 212
Yossarian - 200
PDX Resists - 175
Bonnie & Clyde - 300
Larkworthy- 100
Me - 1075
= 2962
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2962 Signs appearing on major routes through LA/Southern California, SF/Bay Area, Fresno, Portland/Vancouver and Phoenix. All estimates, especially readership are rounded low.
“Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.”
Shown here are some of the 300+ signs from @thorbites along with some excerpts from Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny.
“The mistake is to assume that rulers who came to power through institutions cannot change or destroy those very institutions—even when that is exactly what they have announced that they will do.”
“Practice corporeal politics. Power wants your body softening in your chair and your emotions dissipating on the screen. Get outside. Put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people. Make new friends and march with them.”
“You submit to tyranny when you renounce the
difference between what you want to hear
and what is actually the case.”
“History permits us to be responsible: not for everything, but for something... History gives us the company of those who have done and suffered more than we have.”
“The effort to define the shape and significance of events requires words and concepts that elude us when we are entranced by visual stimuli. Watching televised news is sometimes little more than looking at someone who is also looking at a picture. We take this collective trance to be normal. We have slowly fallen into it.”
“Like Hitler, the president used the word lies to mean statements of fact not to his liking, and presented journalism as a campaign against himself. The president was on friendlier terms with the internet, his source for erroneous information that he passed on to millions of people.”
“Everything happens fast, but nothing actually happens. Each story on televised news is “breaking” until it is displaced by the next one. So we are hit by wave upon wave but never see the ocean.”
“What is truth?"
Sometimes people ask this question because they wish to do nothing. Generic cynicism makes us feel hip and alternative even as we slip along with our fellow citizens into a morass of indifference. It is your ability to discern facts that makes you an individual, and our collective trust in common knowledge that makes us a society.”
“History does not repeat, but it does instruct.”