Gwen Snyder is uncivilI am very, very worried for what the post-2024 United States will look like.
The GOP is a fully fascist party at this point.
If they win big, there aren't enough constitutional safeguards in the world to contain them.
Their war on Black and trans existence is a preview of what they will attempt to do to any and all marginalized people, as well as leftist opposition, on a national level.
I really fear that we are potentially about to reach the point of no return.
During the Trump era, I was very insistent that we needed to militantly oppose explicit fascists in the street and make sure there was a bright line that kept electeds from courting them.
That's still important, but's infinitely more difficult now that the line has been crossed.
And now that we're in an era of social media companies deliberately kneecapping those efforts (Facebook limiting event invites during protest times, Twitter's left-suppressive algorithm), it's also that much more difficult to build spontaneous mass political protest movements.
There's no lifeboat big enough to fit all the people they want to hurt and kill, so we have to be disciplined and wise and find ways to fight here, now.
Even though we are all so exhausted.
These are not easy or fair times.
The Great Llama 
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I have a friend who always has a new plan for where she and her husband are going to escape to. She still hasn't been able to explain what part of the world will be safe if the US follows the fascist pattern and goes to war with the rest of the world.
I have a friend who always has a new plan for where she and her husband are going to escape to. She still hasn't been able to explain what part of the world will be safe if the US follows the fascist pattern and goes to war with the rest of the world.
Riley S. Faelan@TheGreatLlama: These days, Germany is a pretty good place to hide from the Nazis.
@riley
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It's been a LONG time since I was there. They certainly took that shit seriously back then, but...
It still doesn't address the issue. There isn't a place on the planet that is safe if we allow the US to go fully fascist.
@TheGreatLlama: Unfortunately, Melon is already hard at work creating a fascistic dystopia on Mars. 
Urzl@riley @TheGreatLlama @gwensnyder His Mars colony will be a company town built on indentured servitude and a population that literally relies on his beneficence for their lives.
@gooba42
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I object to the word "will". It won't, because it's not happening. It WOULD be that if he could make it happen, but there is a lot of literal space between earth orbit and starting an actual colony on Mars.
That said, if you agree to get on the spaceship of a con artist to go live in his magic martian kingdom, you are only the victim of your own foolishness.
Shailesh Kumar 🇫🇯🇺🇸@gooba42: Sounds a lot like the main impetus in Warframe, at least the way Demon Mama described it.
Billy Smith@gooba42 @riley @TheGreatLlama @gwensnyder
Covered in one of The Stupendium's songs:
THE FINE PRINT | The Outer Worlds Song
The Outer Worlds by Obsidian and Private Division rips you out of hypersleep and drops you in the middle of a conspiracy at the furthest reaches of the galax...
Annietime@riley My niece is working in Berlin right now. In mulling it over I decided she is safer in Germany than anywhere he U. S.
@gwensnyder: No it isn't. It will just be done using new platform(s).
Juni@riley @gwensnyder More difficult (because less widely known). Not impossible.
@CharleneTeglia@gwensnyder Even if they don't win big they are seizing power.
Tea time.@gwensnyder True, but...
From demographics to economics to incumbent advantages, to the unpopular Republican policies/Trump, the odds of a GOP nomination winning aren't great.
Polls this far out have no relation to the outcome. It's common for approval of modern POTUSes to be low a few years in, but factors I mentioned ALL weigh in pretty reliably.
Biden beat Trump by 4.5%.
I'd expect 5.5% next, w/ the map to be similar, but w/ Biden win in Ohio, due to Sherrod Brown being up for re-election.
@gwensnyder Out of these states, NC, GA, OH, and AZ are most likely to flip.
But all of them could go Republican, and Biden would *STILL* win.
@gwensnyder Still, there's no time like now to help register voters. Or, if you are not in a battleground state, to contribute to groups that do so, especially geared towards minorities that the Democrats underspend on and underhire when it comes to voter registration.
Prickly Pam (D-PA)If you're not in a background state you can still help them. Check out a state Dem party and volunteer to help.
@gwensnyder The absolute best way to defeat fear is action, and when it comes to suggested action, I think Steve Phillip's diagnosis is correct. See "Brown is the New White".
Invest in one-to-one minority voter registration and organization, rather than throwing ads at fickle white voters. Fund groups who have a track record for successful organizing.
His org, Democracy in Color, has an excellent series of suggestions of groups in battleground states vital to support.
https://www.democracyincolorplaybook.com/
The Democracy in Color Playbook
A New American Majority is rising. And not everyone is happy about that... The Confederate Army supposedly "surrendered" in 1865 following the "end" of the Civil War, but their fight to keep America fundamentally a white nation never stopped. Instead, it’s intensified. We’v
@gwensnyder i.e. The problem, even within Democratic circles, is *STILL* casual racism, deciding where the money and attention goes.
https://democracyincolor.com/2020-report-cards
https://democracyincolor.com/2020-report-cards
Kerri Levine
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They don't believe in the Constitution, only in applying a veneer of it to their actions, e.g. the corrupted/purchased vote of a Clarence Thomas is expected to grant legitimacy to a Supreme Court ruling. We can't win until we all acknowledge this.
They don't believe in the Constitution, only in applying a veneer of it to their actions, e.g. the corrupted/purchased vote of a Clarence Thomas is expected to grant legitimacy to a Supreme Court ruling. We can't win until we all acknowledge this.
@gwensnyder: If the fascists gain control over USA's federal government, a civil war inside USA is the best remaining option. The best option among only bad options.
Because the alternative scenario is, the top GOPnik will do what Hitler did when he invaded Poland, and if we're really unlucky, we might even find out how the Fermi paradox really works.
Caledon@gwensnyder they have never been contained and they’ve always been fully racist.
The last 60 years of Republicans have been spending massive amounts of energy to keep as many black people in prison, gerrymandering against black peoples, and otherwise making them unable to vote to mitigate their having been given “civil rights.”
Nicole ParsonsRepublican billionaire donors funding fascism:
Charles Koch
Ken Griffin
J. Joe Ricketts
Joe Craft
Robert Bigelow
Robert McNair
Miriam Adelson
Robert D. Arnott
W. Ed Bosarge
Seth Klarman
Linda McMahon
Robert Rowling
Kenny Troutt
Richard Uihlein
John Childs
William Dore
Lawrence Ellison
Stanley Herzog
Foster Friess
Marcus Hiles
Richard Gilliam
Daniel Loeb
Robert Mercer
Charles Munger
Paul Singer
Geoff Palmer
Steve Wynn
Trevor Rees-Jones
Rex Sinquefield
Warren Stephens
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Republican billionaire donors funding fascism Part 2:
John Catsimatidis
Nily Falic
Sheldon Stein
Peter Thiel
Jeffrey Yass
Timothy Mellon
Thomas Peterffy
Steve Schwarzman
Harlan Crow
Barre Seid
Tim Dunn
Farris & Dan Wilks
Kelcy Warren
Ron Lauder
Bernie Marcus
Elon Musk
David Green
As Rick Wilson of the Lincoln Project says, "Let's make them famous, shall we?"
Making it unfashionable to fund the Republican party's anti-democracy movement should be the goal.
Aviva Gary@gwensnyder It will look like it did when it was (basically) "first" established...
Rights for cis white men (or those that are thought to be...) and none for anyone else.
That's it. That's the post. It is what they always wanted and think it is a great thing to "get back to".
They have made their aim very obvious. The only issue now is what to do...
KrazyKat@gwensnyder Concur.
Douglas Phillips Books@gwensnyder every election from here on is existential. Do we want democracy or not? Republicans have made it clear they will end democracy if given the chance.
Dr. Fortyseven 🥃 █▓▒░@gwensnyder I mean, if it gets that bad, there's always less civilized solutions. Hopefully it won't get that far.
A Tattered Scrapbook@gwensnyder There aren’t enough to stop them from winning. The system was designed for a purpose.
agarbathi@gwensnyder Unfortunately, our democracies have become vulnerable. Or rather, conservative views have become radicalized. That can be very dangerous for all of us. Here in Germany, we have very similar problems, and it will also be a long election night for us in 2024.
@gwensnyder .. this is why we need to vote for every seat in every election and ask every one we meet to do the same. When we vote, we win
InfiniteOne@gwensnyder @bethpdx #sophiescholl and the White Rose Movement should be boosted all day, every day.
gavinisdie 
@gwensnyder there is so many possibilities, from a peaceful demlcrat victory to a Civil War to a Fascist Dictatorship
Not a Spring Onion@gwensnyder
We need an on-site nuclear warhead.
We need an on-site nuclear warhead.
And if they lose they won't accept it.
stoicmike@gwensnyder I agree.