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 threadI Can't Believe It's Not Zero!Jun 14, 2025
@angusm @billclawson @pluralistic when we’re all dead, the fundraising texts will stop, so
Show threadUrzl

@steve @angusm @billclawson @pluralistic 20 years later I'm still getting life insurance pitched at my dead mother.

Nobody *ever* stops getting advertising.

Jun 17, 2025 at 7:49pmMoshidon
Show threadAngus McIntyreJun 17, 2025

@gooba42 @steve @billclawson @pluralistic

Doctors: Death occurs when respiration and blood circulation ceases.

Hemingway: Every man has two deaths; when he is buried in the ground, and the last time someone says his name.

Philosophers: A man is not truly dead until the last telemarketer stops trying to reach him about his car’s extended warranty.

Show threadUrzlJun 17, 2025
@angusm @steve @billclawson @pluralistic I assume I end up getting charged with some kind of fraud but I'm always tempted to fill out the paperwork and send back a death certificate alongside it to request they immediately pay up.