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The mobilization itself was already not something I ever expected to see, but to actually win? Hell, to double the winning margin from the 2022 runoff? Genuinely surreal. Maybe child raping billionaires *don't* have to run the world with a shit-eating grin. Maybe that can stop.

What comes after? We’re not gonna get a truth and reconciliation type of Kumbaya moment These are the same people who were fine with everything up to the point that their gas bill got high. I want justice.

The Nobel committee could do the funniest thing in the history of marriage.

Muddling through is not good enough. It's kicking the can down the road for the next would-be autocrat to try again and try harder. It can be repudiated as a fundamental discontinuity in legitimacy and its perpetrators punished accordingly or else the democratic death spiral doesn't stop with him.

I mean, this is not complex: the death drive is right at the core of fascism, and fascism requires a constant sprint towards more cruelty, destruction and insanity. Any second it is at rest, it is dying. So it must keep getting worse and more extreme www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

they're rightly going to wonder why you're ceding ground on an issue that is almost entirely cared about, from the anti side, by insane bigots who are eternally opposed to your party and hate its voters personally

Yeah, the real black pill is that ~25-30% of the voters in basically every modern democratic state are dead-eyed fascists.

Good day☕ at #Bluesky💙🤝 👇 the good side of the #USA😊 🙏 "A Jew a Christian & a Muslim walk into the Senate. All follow the Constitution & want what is best for the people! Refreshing! Please,please let these guys win. It's time to turn the page in #American politics" @AzPetrich so 👉 #vote💙

The Somali guy hopping on the school bus to save the children even as Stephen Miller wants to denaturalize and deport him is a metaphor for our time.

Yes, it sucks that the No Kings insta was suspended (though I still think it was likely an automated tripwire, rather than deliberate). But falling back into "well we have to politically punish media execs to get better results" doesn't fix anything.

Touching grass is not enough I need to fight a raccoon over a pizza crust

The Confederacy must be destroyed.

Look, I’m not saying any billionaires are good blah blah blah, please don’t yell at me. I just think it’s telling that the biggest donors for each party are a Nazi and a Holocaust survivor respectively.

And no one knows how many of the dolphins that leap in the waters of the Inmost Sea were men once, wise men, who forgot their wisdom and their name in the joy of the restless sea.

"And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human" Count Zero by William Gibson

If we just keep imposing these politics everyone hates it’ll work and they’ll cheer up, and they surely won’t just vote for the fascists eventually. And if they do, well, fuck it: we’ll spend a few years in opposition, then come up smiling in the 2030s. Robert est ton oncle, le job est un bon un

In summary, I will vote for slowing down fascism if that's really the only option being presented other than fascism, but I refuse to pretend that it's a robust, righteous alternative.

Russia has made great contributions to art and science over the last 400 years while having about 15 minutes total of decent government over that same period.

There is absolutely no viable path forward for this country that doesn’t hinge on extreme accountability for everyone involved in this administration. They’re going to whine about politicization and credulous media types will echo them, but the thing is, they’ve committed tons of obvious crimes!

We are at part of the cycle where Republicans are about to lose badly, and so they pivot to talking about the rhetoric temperature as if there is no pathology to it. Every dang time, hacking a real desire for dialogue but asking nothing meaningful of the most vicious voices in the right.

It was true before but now it's especially true that the rest of the world can't rely on what 30,000 voters in Wisconsin decide to do every four years. We're unreliable and should be treated as unreliable.

If the US is going to start turning executions into entertainment I have a list that will get them huge ratings.

"What are we, a bunch of BROWN people?" This is white people doing white people shit. Y'all had picnics under our hanging bodies but sure ok. It's like the Taliban.

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

And the big mistake we'll make is thinking democracy will bounce back from aberrations like Orban, Trump, PiS, etc, as if that's the natural order of things, but fundamentally the natural order of things has been completely turned on the head, so what's a naive assumptions become an absurdity.

I also think discourse around disinformation keeps falling into the trap of treating it as a supply side issue, rather than examining the demand side and what to do about that. That is a far more pressing, and far more complicated, problem.

you don’t hold "AI" accountable; you hold AI developers, vendors, and corporations that profit off it accountable holding "AI accountable" is like holding a toaster accountable. it's an inanimate object. it doesn't have wishes, feelings, or desires

Holy shit.

The US government's statements about the Iran War starting with saying they had defeated Iran a dozen of times to then saying hey if they nuke American cities that is actually okay is the kind of shit that only speaks to a base that has willingly locked themselves in a room with a charcoal grill.

Democracy has a dangerous sentence: “Surely somebody will stop this.” Sometimes that somebody is a judge. Sometimes a journalist. Sometimes Congress. And sometimes it’s millions of ordinary people refusing to cooperate. 🗣️ #JulesUnfiltered

If decent people regain control of the government, it seems to me that one of the first things that should be done is for the US to become party to the Rome Statute and turn over Hegseth, for instance, to the Hague. The US does not have a good record holding white men accountable.

The US Democrats need to look at their next Presidency as an endless sprint to obliterate MAGA, every day for years. Until the cancer is gone then there should be no time wasted on MAGA tears or conciliation. Only endless justice and rebuilding the democracy. Govern like every day is the last day.

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.