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Cybersecurity engineer, full-time RV nomad, Twin Peaks fan, aspiring Luddite. He/him.
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Please. No more speeches on Bluesky about having the guts to stand up Trump when you have voted to give unanimous consent to advancing his agenda 345 times since inauguration.
You are a God-damned coward and a traitor to the Republic, Bernard Sanders, and I'm ashamed I ever thought well of you.
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Outspoken D Senators are like those really annoying guys who talk big about how they'd kick anybody's ass in a fight because they binged some krav maga and bjj videos on youtube, except that those annoying guys don't also spend tens of hours each week supporting, protecting and arming muggers.
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100%. It reminds me of Y2K when software experts freaked out for a decade about the 2-digit year date overflow that would cause systems to treat 2000 like 1900, then nothing happened, BECAUSE EVERYBODY FREAKED OUT AND FIXED IT.
If USA gets better it's because we freaked out, not because we waited.
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When your personal political bookshelf consists of 38 copies of Pearl Clutching For Dummies, it's muscle memory.
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Repeating one point from the thread: Don't organize anything or do any personal business on company-owned devices. We monitor a lot of that shit, because some of your coworkers sell data to criminals or hostile nations.
If you own it, be careful.
If you don't own it, it's definitely compromised.
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Been leaving voicemails for my R Senators and House rep reminding them that opposing Trump costs them no personal or party power, because their D coworkers are idiots and cowards and will still give them everything they want afterward.
No responses in 3 weeks, but I'm telling them the truth.
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Dem Senators could have objected to unanimous consent constantly to slow this to a crawl, which would have given us months more time to organize, prepare, and resist.
Instead, they decided they'd rather give speeches to empty chambers and have long weekends.
indivisible.org/resource/exp...
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And their deliberate inaction and discouraging of grassroots resistance has transmuted a lot of willingness to support into a desire to buy more popcorn.
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Introducing legislation? Are you fucking serious?
Can you get other Dem Senators to vote with you, let alone Republicans? Can you get it on the docket and passed in the Republican-controlled House? Can you get Trump's tiny hand to sign it into law?
Try objecting to unanimous consent instead.
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"Enshittification" is an actual term worth searching that describes this phenomenon in the tech space. It's as an explicit business model with clearly delineated phases.
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It doesn't even have to be a political renaming.
gulfof.mapquest.com?name=The+Wig...
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Plus if they gave a shit, they could ask us directly. And of course no, we won't dial them down, but there's a special level of third-order cravenness in volunteering to carry the water for elected Dems who volunteer to carry water for Repubs who volunteer to carry water for King Diaperfill.
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Since our two parties are 1) sentient cancer cells and 2) doddering dipshits who met gravitas and self-preservation in a bar once but vomited on their shoes and passed out, the correct framing is absolutely "keep pressuring them hard until we can remove them." They are unwilling tools, not allies.
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I'm coming around to the view that corporate US media is just as captured by inertia and the desire to ground out resistance instead of informing and supporting it as Dem politicians are.
Not suggesting anyone should stop shaming them, obviously - just not rely on them as a lever for resistance.
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Hmm, sounds a lot like you for not objecting to unanimous consent.
We'll remember that your long weekends are more important to you than your constituents, your oath of office, and democracy.
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Having made it brutally clear that they value their long weekends more than our lives, they'll realize sooner or later that being primaried is the very best outcome they can expect from the next few years.
To be clear, I'm not threatening them: Trump already did.
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Their fundraising haul in '26 is way more important to them than democracy, their bosses the American public, and their oaths of office.
Their long weekends are also much more important to them than our lives.
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unfollowing
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Team America, World Police 2: America's Fucked, Yeah?
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"There's nothing Dems can do, so we need to ____ instead" - helpful.
"There's nothing these specific Dems can do with their current approach, so we need to pressure them to resist or resign" - helpful.
"There's nothing Dems can do, oh well/thanks nonvoters" - pro-fascist, pro-Trump, pro-Musk.
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For clarity, arguments like "I think X is a better way to resist than Y because [reasons]" are great, because the text and subtext and intent are focusing, energizing, supportive of resistance.
"Don't do X, it's bad/stupid/uncivilized/unpleasant/unpopular" is enervating support of the fascist coup.
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Don't want to fight one particular battle? Fine, rest up - nobody can fight all the battles themselves.
Want to fight a different battle instead? Great, have at it.
But telling other people not to fight a given battle IS fighting that battle yourself, for the other side.
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Let's remember the names of those who are are willing to lie in the service of evil, and the names of those who give those lies greater reach.
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Nothing like a tyrant to shine spotlights on who the collaborators are.
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Thank you for your service
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From the cynical perspective of "All political communication is propaganda", I would like to see Dems switch to "Propaganda opposing fascism and resisting the dismantling of our democracy" from their current state of "Propaganda laying groundwork for their election fundraising in 12-18 months."
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Exactly. Not everyone can fight every fight. But when you say "Don't pick THIS fight," you yourself are picking that fight - and fighting on the wrong side of it.
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He didn't get the subtext and he also didn't get the text, which is cool because billionaires who fail the Turing test taking over the government is totally not an existential crisis or anything
*cries in Elendil*
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Cool, thanks! I'll look them up.
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I hadn't heard of Timothy Snyder. I enjoyed this link I found: m.youtube.com/watch?v=9toc...
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Totally agree on messaging - it seems like they haven't been trying to do much more than fundraise.
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I hope those calls go/went better than Thune and Rounds. One cabinet member delayed wouldn't help much; all cabinet members delayed would have helped more; not conducting overnight sessions that only D's showed up to would have helped make R's suffer for rubber-stamping their god-emperor's agenda.
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They've objected to unanimous consent twice, I think (open to correction if I'm mistaken). They could be doing it much more. They could be calling for quorum instead of speechifying to empty rooms.
If you don't feel like calling Senators that's cool. They could still be doing much more, now.
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I love the civil disobedience examples too, and would celebrate examples of those, but right now they're not even doing all the things that each and every one of them has explicit and ongoing written permission to do, unilaterally.
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This is a good short list for the Senate in particular. indivisible.org/resource/exp...
TL;DR objecting to unanimous consent suspending the normal rules of order would slow everything nearly to a halt, buying us time. Requiring quorum calls would make R's listen to e.g. Warren's empty room speeches
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And here I thought primary challenges were a pie-in-the-sky best case scenario for D's in '26 who talk big, but fail to use any lawful parliamentary measure to oppose fascism like they would if they'd ever believed a single word they've said. Next-level grifting makes for a shitty reelection resume.
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Failure is fine if you're trying. Dems are not only not trying, they're sucking resources that could be used for opposition, and using those resources to block opposition.
Every single Dem Senator (and Bernie) values long weekends and bipartisanship more than their oaths to uphold the Constitution.
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What is this weaksauce resistance ethos that can only oppose one thing at a time? I spend more time on the phone with my Rethuglican Senators and House rep than fussing at Dems here. R's need to stand down, AND D's need to uphold their oath of office. Both/and, not either/or.
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"All Americans will suffer", you say, and that's not even worth working more than 4 days in a week to you. Disappointed in myself that I actually believed for years that you gave a shit about anything more than your reelection war chest.
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Big talk for a collaborator who votes consistently with fascists on unanimous consent instead of opposing them. You say all this crap, but you won't even forego a long weekend.
Seems like you're looking forward to your fundraising windfall in '26 when your ally and friend Pres. Musk tanks things.