Cory DoctorowToday's threads (a thread)
Inside: The conservative movement is cracking up; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/14/when-youve-lost-the-fedsoc/
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This Thursday, November 16, I’ll be in #Stratford, Ontario, appearing onstage with #VassBednar as part of the #CBCIDEAS Festival:
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/cbc-ideas-visionaries-in-conversation-tickets-729692809837
I’m also doing an afternoon session for middle-schoolers at the Stratford Public Library:
https://www.provocation.ca/upcoming-2023-events-stratford
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The conservative movement is cracking up: It's not just Trumpism - antitrust is an emerging fracture line.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111410553114872754
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Cory Doctorow (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Politics always means coalitions. In parliamentary democracies, coalitions are visible, coming together to form the government. In a dictatorship, the coalitions are hidden to everyone except infighting princelings and courtiers (until a general or minister is executed, exiled or thrown in prison.) - If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/14/when-youve-lost-the-fedsoc/#anti-buster-buster 1/
geographile@pluralistic elephants are awesome, I wish they weren't that party's symbol.
@geographile Even better are unhinged medieval drawings of elephants based on third-hand descriptions!
@pluralistic there are a lot of good reasons to believe in monsters, and medieval Europe's illustrations of animals they haven't seen are definitely one of them.
mikelgs 
⁂@geographile @pluralistic could you share with me some examples of that kind of drawings?
femaven@geographile @pluralistic their party symbol should be the monkey covering their eyes lol