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Like, yeah, they can 'get away with' ending soft power. They can 'get away with' extrajudicial killings. They're operating off of pure machismo right now. They're getting drunk on their vices. They're stripping masks where masks wouldn't be advised to be stripped. I feel like I understand now that Fascism is, in part, an expression of weakness. They wouldn't be doing this unless they were scared. It's too volatile. It feels both too late on a power-level and too early on a popular-level. Never mind the ticking time bomb that is AI data centers. It feels like, and I'm sure this is cope, there is a timer on their ability to run the circus much longer.

My first instinct here is to doubt myself, intellectual pessimism and all. In that vein, maybe this is just revolutionary optimism, but we're at the point where it feels like there is a palpable anger brewing in the basement. I don't know. Maybe Palantir works as an anti-communist panopticon and we just death spiral forever. I don't want to lose hope.

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today -1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Damn right I'm pissed off, and emotional about the loss of my nation to treasonous pedophile scum. I'm not apologizing for pointing out that discouraging action, without offering solutions, is encouraging that enemy. Anyone who isn't angry about MAGAs vicious destruction of our country IS a disgusting weakling.

And your whiny call for politeness toward MAGA appeasers and collaborators makes YOU just as much of a MAGA appeaser. You're probably one of those people who follows the insipid Michelle Obama Doctrine: "When they go low, we go high," possibly the dumbest political statement I've ever heard, outside of EVERYTHING uttered by any MAGA. When they go low, you metaphorically kick them in the teeth, then stomp their heads.

Corrupt Traitors, racists, rapists, misogynists, ignoramuses, and PEDOPHILES deserve nothing less. They certainly do it to us every chance they get. They even manufacture opportunities to deliberately hurt us. Don't they deserve the same treatment in return?

But you want to be polite, just like Chamberlain and the Nazis. That pathological need for Democrats to always be polite, even in the to face of withering corruption, is the reason that the MAGA Traitors are BACK in power. We locked them out once, and weaklings like you let them right back in, because it was so important to be polite to bullies. How is THAT strategy working out for you?

Retract my posts? No, I stand by every word.

[–] oliveoil@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago

Lol I'm not polite, I just don't like you.

Pressuring the democrats to take action is somewhere between neutral impact to positive impact.

Pure electoralism will not help you. You need to understand that the guy you're chewing out has a point.

The point of the 2 party system is to preserve capital and the interests of capital. The democrats have spent decades pretending to be unable to fight back.

Remember that it was Chuck Schumer and the democrats who decided to amplify Donald Trump in the Republican primary of the 2016 election.

Real action involves organizing with other people to create a force that can stand on it's own legs and push back against the system.

Also fuck your country.