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People literally died from Covid while claiming it doesn’t exist. There is never going to be a wake up call for some people. A lot of people. It’s not about convincing them if they can’t be convinced. IMO it’s about overwhelming them entirely with opposition.

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

They don’t announce they are going to suspend the constitution they just stop following rule of law. No one is going to tell you “this is the moment they’ve suspended the constitution” in effect we are already in the space where that has happened and we need to start to act like it as a population.

montanafreepress.org/2024/12/07/a... Luigi, check this shit out

the people who said dems needed to prioritize institutional reforms like court reform, election laws, etc, in 21 were right. and the people who said DOJ needed to drop the hammer on trump ASAP were right, and there’s been zero indication from dem leadership that they understand this

People adapt to fascism. That's what you learn when you read history. And it's easy for those who are not its direct targets to do.

It is soul-crushing on the order of the phrase “school lunch debt” to watch the state respond to disasters by threatening people in order to defend property that is all getting written off as a loss for insurance anyway.

I'm ready for robot umps, I've seen enough

The Biden administration, in which Harris still serves, is in violation of US laws on, respectively, providing weapons to a country denying humanitarian aid, and sending weapons to units known to committ warcrimes. To comply with existing law requires halting arms to Israel.

when I was a child, I thought smart people were in charge. when I got older, I realized you didn't have to be smart to be in charge. but the piece that was hardest to learn is that no one is really in charge at all. no one's going to fix it beyond us.

There is no amount of increasing border enforcement or deporting people that will ever make the American right wing believe the border is being properly handled by a democratic president. Any compromise on this is just a signal that they can demand more & keep the issue live. Immoral, bad politics.

From “technically it isn’t fascism” to “technically it wasn’t an insurrection” to “technically it’s not a genocide,” our intellectuals are really making a bold show of their commitment to sophistry and semantics above any meaningful confrontation with the realities of their time.

Multiple refugee camps. Schools. UN shelters. An ambulance. Now, a pediatric hospital.