Cory DoctorowJun 13, 2025

If there's anything that illustrated the hollowness of the Democratic Party as an effective opposition for me, it's this.

Yesterday, I watched a video of a sitting US Senator being thrown to the ground and cuffed by fed goons for asking questions of the fed official he has direct oversight authority over.

Within minutes, I'd gotten DOZENS of texts from Dems and Dem orgs asking for $5-$50 to "fight fascism."

That's it. "Are you terrified that your country is slipping into fascism? Pay me."

Show threadfreelunaJun 13, 2025
@pluralistic I really fucking hate the DNC and ActBlue for this very reason. I’ve donate to the democrats and will do so again, but the consequence of even once donating to the democrats is to be constantly barraged by their bullshit in texts and emails, and it pisses me off to no end.
Show threadAngus McIntyreJun 14, 2025
@billclawson @pluralistic Essentially, political power in the US is now divided between a repressive death cult and a fundraising business, and the reason that the death cult keeps winning is because at least you can get people excited about joining a death cult.
Show threadアイアンハンドガンダムJun 14, 2025
@angusm @billclawson @pluralistic the American Experiment killed by a slim voting majority by Americans themselves who all will say they didn't see that coming and clearly didn't vote for that...
Show threadmicchiato 🎋

@mrt181

The so-called “American Experiment” (🙄) has died multiple deaths to the point that one must wonder if it ever really existed at all (with the exception of 2 short-lived periods of Reconstruction spaced 100 years apart). It never hung on the results of any single election, despite what liberals and centrists would have us believe.

Jun 14, 2025 at 3:03pmWeb