cthonides.bsky.social
burnt-out, neurodivergent, polygottal polymath and reconstructed emigré from the right-wing fever-swamps
Without a conscience, I could have been Q.
Had I been able to conform, I’d have been a pastor.
Now I’m some kind of artsy-fartsy, paganish commie.
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We all know that fear can make us want to fight, flee, freeze, or fawn. These are natural impulses. Appeasement doesn't work on fascists tho. Never has, never fucking will. It doesn't make them less dangerous, but it can turn you into someone who enables their violence.
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Yes!!! I have been trying to find a way to articulate this succinctly, myself.
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How the Dream fades!
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Wait, is that tengwar??? 😍
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Illustration by Mike Freiheit
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💗
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Far from typical of all but the minority intelligentsia, that is, and still fie on him for the years of apologia for war and the suppression of civil rights.
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I totally agree on the impeachment hearings. Yes, they will provoke him to go full dictator, but it is the right thing to do, and we are fooling ourselves if we think that he won’t go full dictator sooner or slightly less soon. They should have done it weeks ago.
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And the sad fact of the matter is that the Republican senators from my former state of longtime residence, Hoeven and Cramer, are utterly sold out, and talking to them is like talking to a brick wall, unless, say, Harold Hamm breaks with Trump. And he won’t. Oil barons don’t need democracy.
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Hey, I’m all for that, but Van Hollen and Sanders are showing what those without a majority in the chamber can still do, and there are still a lot of Democratic choristers who are voting “yea” on nominees and bills. I shouldn’t have to call them to get them to wake up, but I guess I do.
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Yeah, the OP only makes sense if we think that all they can do is vote. This is like the “oh, no, Manchin’s holding out—I guess were SOL” nonsense from four years ago. We’re not going to return to some mythical gentlemanly time by refusing to stoop to their level and shaming them. Twist. Balls.
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Yes, wicked goals—but concrete goals all the same: goals that lead to other things. And it is all with a coherent rationale of gaining and keeping power. I hate what the T gang is doing, but I get why they’re doing it. It makes sense, from an evil perspective.
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Yes, there is some palace intrigue between elements of the coalition. Yes, Trump himself is erratic. Those are familiar features which are predictably back. However, what could also have been predicted is AN ATTEMPT TO PLAN AHEAD BASED ON WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE and PLAYING TO WIN—to achieve goals.
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And I believe that they are about to enter their next, planned phase, consolidating gains.
I hope people, *particularly* those individuals in places of significant influence, will follow the examples variously set by Sens. Sanders and Van Hollen and treat this like the emergency that it is.
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Salut
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And nepotism is still bad, even when the erstwhile good guys do it.
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*Rubillius
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Constituent here: ☝️ what Louisa said. Stonewall time started in January and should have included Marcus Antonius Rubillus. What is going on? Why are you abetting this? None of this is give-and-take. None of this is business as usual—PREDICTABLY.