This is true, but also like… If you’re still on Twitter, fuck you.

Explain yourself.

We resist, and we take back power and give it to people who will use it.

We need to take every seat. From district school boards to US senators, every seat that comes up needs to go to someone who will fight.

And I really mean fight - everything from gerrymandering California to ordering police to arrest federal agents invading our cities. But smaller and more personal things too

If you’re so much as in charge of a book club, I want you to abuse that tiny amount of power to bully any open MAGA people

These people are trying to kill us and destroy our country. They don’t want democracy, they want to take away our votes and our freedom.

Their voices don’t matter, they need to be shamed and attacked until they can’t make eye contact. They should be made to realize they aren’t entitled to opinions.

No, there’s no glorious revolution coming. Just a period of fascism before the collapse of an empire. We are just fucked

But that doesn’t mean we can’t make a difference. Things can get better locally, we can drive the Fascists back and save a lot of people. We can slow them down until we can take back power.

We can start working on the cultural norms that will drive fascism underground for another century.

So if you want to make things better, fuck the rules. Things never would have gotten this far if we were more punk rock. We need to learn to be punk rock.

Cool, so there’s an ethnic cleansing going on. When it becomes full on genocide, do we still just shrug and respect democracy?

They’re currently attempting to rig elections and taking bribes, all out in the open. Trump attempted a coup, and managed to get back into office. They’ve pushed the unitary executive theory into practice, they’re ignoring both the courts and Congress when it suits them.

The rule of law is dead. No amount of following the rules will fix that. Our democracy has been hacked. The checks and balances have failed. Things will not go back to how they were.

There is only fascism until everything collapses, or progressives take hold of power and do reconstruction.

If you want to live in a democracy, respecting the will of people who don’t want democracy is not an option

There is no secret plan. These people are incompetent, they project every move, and if they don’t it leaks

Also, I don’t think you understand how bad rounding up the homeless is. These are largely people with mental issues or in extreme poverty. They’re going to be put in cages and tortured. They probably aren’t going to kill them directly, but they’ll put them in conditions where they’ll die

This is what the Nazis did to kick off the Holocaust, just stupider

Round up the homeless people and put them in the camps.

Trump and co self report their next move about a week in advance. He let slip that little nugget when he was talking about big balls

Yeah, that’s why we have to sweep the field with progressives

It’s also definitely true for South Korea, or Ukraine

Just… In these cases, the state is much more aligned with the people. Service to the state means protecting the people

This is just not common. This is an exception

We don’t glorify service to the state in any other way though. We look down on public servants.

And military service is the biggest gulf between service to the people and service to the state… It doesn’t help the people at all, it only serves the state

Exactly. And let’s be real, without humans, the world either would either heal or find a new balance totally inconsistent with human life

And if I woke up and there’s no more humans… Well then at least I’d know. As an endling, I’d try to find out what happened and build us a gravestone

But in any of these cases, my life only gets better from when I wake up. It’ll be the lowest point in the rest of my life, as opposed to now, where most paths seem to lead to living in a world that gets worse

I mean, yeah. Aside from Maryland and I think one other, the blue states aren’t very gerrymandered. This is one of the main tools that kept the Republicans relevant… They’ve just been cheating for decades, pushing further and further

If we strip fair election laws in places like California and cheat as well, they never get a majority in Congress again. If we pass national districting laws to make them all fair, same deal.

As far as gerrymandering too much… Tech giants are hoovering up all this data in part to share with groups like Cambridge analytica, which gives ungodly levels of granular data. They got very good at predicting elections

And that’s why Democrats are freaking out about Mumdani and Republicans are freaking out in general - progressive populists are out performing the models by double digit percentage points. And that’s well past the 10 point lead they used to consider a done deal

Yeah, I don’t know why we glorify military service. It’s just exploiting people to enforce exploitation overseas at this point

But even aside from that, I feel like this is in bad taste… They just finished fucking over all the trans people in the military. The tone is like telling someone “you’re welcome here” as they’re lying there after being thrown out

It’s like saying “well, I believe you’re an American” as they’re put on the plane. Just doesn’t seem like the right thing to say in that moment

Yep. Authorities have basically just refused to admit how unreliable drug tests are, no matter how many times it’s proven

It’s standard war on drugs tactics… They don’t care how many people they hurt, gotta keep that _slave prisoner population up

You mean I could die in my sleep or wake up in a world that has advanced 1k years?

I’ll take that deal every time

Are teenagers animals we don’t understand to be studied?

Genuinely, yes. They’re the stage where humans stretch boundaries and react to the society they’ve been raised in

Teenagers want autonomy and support, but beyond that? To understand them you have to study constantly emerging culture, constantly changing language, endless subcultures and remixes

So like… Two different groups of people.

These ones actually acted when the moment came, they have no control over what happens in Washington

We should be praising them. They did their damn jobs, and we should wildly gesture to them when the fuckers in Washington whine about not having the numbers to do anything

These are local Democrats, not federal ones

I have a theory. Back in ancient Greece, having a literal boy-toys was normalized. But not by everyone… By the men who owned estates, with slaves and workers and land and a whole little clan

You can draw a line from them to our ruling class, with plenty of additions, but one unbroken line

I think the West has been controlled by pedos, an unbroken chain of pedos lasting millennia

Nah, they’d do it at home

But it’s going to happen. It was a huge problem with the camp guards and the SS, very few people can live with doing that level of evil for long

I guess that’s fair, I’m not into shoes but I could spot running shoes at a glance

Yeah, obviously. Typing in codes makes you better at typing in codes… My job is to minimize human error on skilled data entry

Scans are like, 100x more reliable, maybe more. I can’t count the number of bugs that ended up being human error. In several years of coding, my mistakes costed cents…Theirs costed tens of thousands of dollars

They’re avoiding scans because they’re dumb, simple as