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The Republican project isn’t to win in November. It’s to make November cease to matter
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 20 May 2026
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It’s happening and Americans are either complicit or powerless to do anything about it.
They had a chance in November 2024. They wasted it.
America is complicit.
A chance for what exactly?
They''re not powerless. They could've had more than 3 protests in the past 16 months before giving up.
They weren't protests- they were parades. They had fucking live music and barbecue grills. Social media posts talking about how much "fun" they had protesting.
An absolute joke.
Every time I hear someone suggest protesting I have to assume they're a liberal. Which means they oppose leftists at every opportunity, oppose any acts of violence like the killing of Brian Thompson, explain the pragmatism of blocking the rail strike in 2022 and defend Biden for going around congress twice to ship weapons to Israel and preventing a legitimate primary from being run in 2024.
The short of it being, liberals oppose any kind of disruption so what exactly do they believe protests are supposed to accomplish?
That's the thing- they don't.
For American liberals, protesting isn't the means, it's the end.
It's their opportunity to telegraph to everyone that they're "on the right side." Accomplishing that and easing their guilt for doing fuck-all are the only outcomes they give a shit about.