Allow me to address the elephant in the room:
The Trump administration is not setting the course for a four-year term.
The Trump administration is setting the course for an everlasting dictatorship.
If Americans don’t want that, the window to stop them is closing quickly.
The window closed when 11 million people who voted for Joe Biden in 2020 couldn’t be bothered to vote in 2024. Now everyone is up in arms because nobody bothered to read the writing on the wall that’s been there since 2016.
@benroyce is probably the best person to comment on this, but I'm not sure it's just that people "couldn't be bothered”. There was an epidemic of #ToxicIdealism spread perhaps primarily by the “G-n-c-d- Joe” brigade leading a non-trivial number to not vote as some sort of masochistic protest.
The left wing must, finally, learn the lesson:
Fight in the primaries, unite in the election
@mmalc @HamonWry @Strandjunker
It's rather weird still encountering people, as I have recently, who think "teaching Democrats a lesson" is more important than {gestures broadly}
It's also extremely entitled
That the bad effects of the Trump administration won't affect them
(Or, rather than entitlement, extremely fucking stupid to think it won't effect them.)
@phaedral @mmalc @HamonWry @Strandjunker
That's an actual thing on the far left and far right:
Accelerationism
Of course revolutions in the real world mean 100,000x injustice and suffering
And then what wins might be worse
Or if good wins, it begins to decay again because... some people still don't vote due to the same whiny toxic idealism- that's the real problem all along
But it's hard to get that across to edgelords vibing to the dimwit cosplay revolutionary fantasy life in their head
@benroyce @phaedral @mmalc @HamonWry @Strandjunker I sometimes envy those who think the solution is to take a page from France's history and start building guillotines.
They're optimists.
Specfiically, they think it'll go better for us than it did for France, and I envy them that kind of faith in humanity. Because France is doing great now, but how many generations did it take to get there?
Overthrowing the monarchy didn't lead to a Republic any more than England colonizing North America did. Directly, it led to a purge, a famine, an empire, and a bloody military defeat that saw the men who hadn't starved or been killed in the revolution die for the short-sighted aspirations of a small man.
@mark @phaedral @mmalc @HamonWry @Strandjunker
agreed except napoleon wasn't small, that's just ancient british propaganda
@benroyce @phaedral @mmalc @HamonWry @Strandjunker I meant in terms of goals (though I did choose words to play on the old stereotype on purpose).
A whole people behind him in a country with gorgeous land and access to both the Mediterranean and the Atlantic and what does that asshole do? Try to take more land? Specifically fucking Belgium?
What a waste of lives.
(Nothing against y'all, Belgium, you are also a beautiful country with a rich and valued history. Good on ya for kicking Napoleon's ass; he deserved it).
@mark @phaedral @mmalc @HamonWry @Strandjunker
we had something going in the USA for awhile. we have our demons but we were making some progress
now a bunch of morons want to learn all the lessons for why participation is the best path after all, despite the flaws, the hard way
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