Germans have a word for "staircase joke" - I wonder if they have a word for "meme you wish you'd have had for most of the past month but are gonna grab now because you're pretty damn sure you'll find all sorts of uses for it again soon..."
@AnarchoNinaWrites can't wait for Hakeem Jeffries to declare they will be resolute in finding common bipartisan ground with Trump in what kind of tortures can be carried out on the migrants we're sending to Gitmo
@tehdeminz "illegal offshore migrant prisons come and go, but what cannot be denied is that God is great..."
@AnarchoNinaWrites Bad thought: what are the odds Musk tries to impress sad nerds by trying to reenact Palpatine's "I AM the Senate" moment, but completely unironically
@AnarchoNinaWrites @tehdeminz This MF is absolutely on the cusp of trying to cite some biblical bits on slavery to justify what is coming on that front.

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I humbly submit "spätzßndungmeme" which I think roughly translates to "Late ignition meme"

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Problem is, these mofos don't know any other way to react to getting their asses kicked politically other than lurching further to the Right. It's locked into their DNA and their lobbying contracts.

@AnarchoNinaWrites As I was saying tho:

https://www.commondreams.org/news/democrats-progressive-groups

Dems Reportedly Angry That Progressives Are Pushing Them to Act Like an Opposition Party

"Citing unnamed sources, including a senior House Democrat, Axios reported Tuesday that the private meeting "included a gripe-fest" directed at "groups like MoveOn and Indivisible," which have "facilitated thousands of phone calls to members' offices" and pressured the party to use its considerable power to disrupt business as usual in Congress, including by opposing all unanimous consent requests from the Republican majority.

The unnamed senior House Democrat told Axios that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is "very frustrated" with the progressive organizations, which have urged people across the country to contact their Democratic representatives and pressure them to fight harder against the Trump administration and their Republican allies."

Look, it's not lost on me that these posts piss whatever small number of dyed in the wool liberal capitalists still follow me, but the reality is that I've been telling you that this is who the Democratic Party and the entire liberal establishment really are for a very long time now. I warned you that these people either didn't believe, or didn't care that fascism was real and Trump's movement was its vehicle to power because their actions, including appeasing a movement (that they publicly identified as fascist) to the point it literally got Trump elected, made it 100% clear that they either didn't know, or didn't care.

I don't give a shit how hard your job is, or how annoyed you are at people who didn't vote for Bushism in a dress, or even that the GOP has all three elected branches of government; asking you to vigorously oppose fascism at every turn is not an imposition or a bridge too far because my dudes? It's fascism. Right thinking people with an soul, oppose fascism, that's just how it works. Even if you can't win each individual battle in government, merely the act of opposing this entire Pork Reich shitshow slows them down and raises society-wide awareness that this is NOT business as usual, and this fascist agenda is something worth opposing. This is what guys like Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jefferies were fucking elected to do and they don't get to pretend they don't understand the stakes involved here because their own Party has at various points articulated those stakes; albeit very poorly.

Furthermore, I'd like to point out that so-called "progressive groups" like MoveOn and Indivisible are still at their heart, institutional liberalism. This isn't the "radical left" demanding that the Dem Party fight these nazis in the street, even though that would in fact be totally justified because hello, these people are fascists with openly stated goals to attack civil rights, destroy social programs, and transform society into an even more welcoming playground for rich cracker supremacists; an agenda that will, and already does, have a growing body count. These folks are rules and norms liberals, begging their representatives to fight the good fight within the rules of a rigged oligarchy built on genocide and slavery, and even that, even just asking the Democratic Party to do their jobs and stop rolling over for a fascist government controlled by a nazi Afrikaner supervillain who kills monkeys in weird brain computer experiments, is apparently a bridge too far.

With friends like these, it's no wonder our enemies are winning, and this is precisely why as an ardent antifascist prepared to die rather than surrender to this nazi bullshit, I'm done pretending the liberal establishment (read: rich people and the minions they own in media and government) are on the same side I am. And given that they lost millions of votes between the 2020 election, and the 2024 election, against the same bloviating reality TV show nazi and his fascist agenda, it sounds like I'm far from alone in that assessment. The cavalry isn't coming; these folks are collaborators. Fight fascism and stop waiting for the Schumers and Jefferies(s) of the world to tell you when and how to do so - before it's too late.

#USPol #DemocraticParty #Fascism #Trump #Indivisible #MoveOn #ChuckSchumer #HakeemJeffries #Collaborators #Antifascism

Dems Reportedly Angry That Progressives Are Pushing Them to Act Like an Opposition Party | Common Dreams

"Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer are architects of the crisis that allowed Trump's fascism to arise and succeed," argued one progressive organizer. "They have zero credibility to be leading the fights we face today."

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So how do you disassemble a 250+ year old system with a minimum of bloodshed? The American population has repeatedly shown itself to turn against any movement that turned to violence (or the movement was violently repressed. viz Shay's Rebellion, all of the labor revolts/strikes of the 19th-early 20th century.

Saying "fight fascism" requires more than saying it. It's really too late for words, but what actions are viable?

@dennis_moser @AnarchoNinaWrites Get a library card; there are a lot of books about how to do revolution available and you reading them doesn't require me to write a step by step guide for breaking the law in a fascist police state for you in my replies Dennis. I disbelieve that the problem for you is "how" my friend; I think it's just that you don't like the answers and that's not really my problem.
@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes @AnarchoNinaWrites I suggest that you might consider reading my profile? 😇 The question was somewhat rhetorical… as for whether or not I like the “answers “, I came by my bayonet scars honestly…

@dennis_moser @AnarchoNinaWrites Or, and here me out here - you can go ask rhetorical questions on your own timeline and not waste my time? I read your reply and it sounded like a lot of excuses and bullshit. Fighting the nazis didn't happen "without bloodshed" and abolition, Civil Rights, and ending the Vietnam War were all "unpopular" with the American public.

You showed up in my replies to try and overdog me with what amounts to shitlib nonsense and I saw you coming a mile away. Now fuck off.

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Again, I refuse to believe the problem is folks don't know "how to resist." if you're waiting for someone to write you out a step by step guide to breaking the law in a fascist police state (which America was long before it "elected" Trump in a rigged oligarchy) you're more or less saying "I'm looking for an excuse not to act." Shutting shit down, going after the ability to make profit, using your body to grind the gears of the fascist police state to a halt are all pretty self-explanatory endeavors and you've got plenty of examples from both recent American history (fighting cops in the streets during 2020) and America's past (occupying draft offices during Vietnam, battling fascists and their police escorts on Cable street in Britain, helping escaped enslaved people run to Canada via the Underground railroad, and so forth.) If however, my cynicism is getting the best of me and you really are committed to fighting fascism, but you really don't know your ass from your elbow or what "shut it down" means, this November 2024 article on Crimethink is a good place to start in terms of how to think about resistance, how to formulate your own plan for resisting, and the pitfalls you need to be prepared for while resisting. This *also* isn't a how to break the law in a fascist police state 101 article, but it will at least help you frame acts of resistance in their proper place mentally, and help you identify the purpose of that resistance so you can come up with your own ideas on how to enact that resistance. https://crimethinc.com/2024/11/20/the-case-for-resistance-what-were-up-against-and-what-it-could-look-like-to-fight The Case for Resistance: What We’re Up Against—and What It Could Look Like to Fight "Many of Trump’s ostensible opponents have maintained that two of the negative consequences of the next Trump administration will be that more people will “radicalize” (to the left as well as the right) and that there will be “chaos” (which is to say, disruptive protests). The implication is that Trump wants and benefits from both of these phenomena. It is incumbent on us to articulate which kinds of polarization and chaos actually benefit Trump and which do not. Donald Trump did not win the 2024 elections because people took to the streets—he lost the 2020 elections as a consequence of disruptive protests, and he won the 2024 election in part because those died off. Everyone must understand this." #USPol #Fascism #Antifascism #Trump #LGBTQ #Migrants

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@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes @AnarchoNinaWrites heh. I went to an Indivisible meeting once out of curiosity in 2020 and their radical actions were literally making handmade cards and knitting hats to send their congresscritters.
@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes @AnarchoNinaWrites I've been hearing for a while that the Dems are the same kind of fascists as the Reps, but quieter. This is the first time that I seriously believe it (the long list of receipts from this and other posts helped a lot, since I'm not checking the american news every day). This is a warning for those of us who don't live in the US: who is following these same patterns in our own countries?
@AnarchoNinaWrites Well, we have to invent a word for this because the German liberal establishment - having watched the success in the US - is exactly doing the same thing here in Germany. As if the liberal bourgeoisie cannot help themself to do the wrong thing, prop up fascist ideology and doing everything they can to help capital.