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It’s wild that press officers can just make up whatever narrative is most convenient at the moment and face no consequences whatsoever— and no one even bothers bringing up the idea of consequences for spokespeople lying because we’ve literally waged wars over claims like this and nothing happened.

I am not a military strategist, but I have a vague memory that not feeding the troops was one of those big fuck-ups that Sun Tzu talked about.

To my average offline progressive liberal or socdem friend, I am the hardcore psychopath they go to because they don’t trust political pundits anymore.

It’s absurd to write off the only demographic masochistic enough to be paying attention, we also exist offline! Lmao duh

The blue no matter who people, who spent years telling the left to enjoy the camps for telling them that transphobia and genocide are wildly unpopular election-losing positions, ended up voting for a sexual predator *not* running as a democrat who was endorsed by Trump, Musk, and Miller. Who lost.

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These Arch Linux people are getting out of control.

again a reminder that the NYT leadership supports Cuomo *because* of his record of sexual harassment, not *despite* it. they have a strong interest in making sure that they and their friends can never again suffer the indignity of being held accountable by their inferiors.

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I'm not gonna vote for a transphobe. Making him your nominee will lose the election.

It's only too late that you realize you stopped too far forward on the crosswalk I needed to use. With a flash, my katana has left its sheath and gleams in the sunlight, quickly leaving a really big scratch on your kia sorento

*tosses another example onto the comedically large pile of examples showing how replacing spelling and grammar checkers with a statistical engine to find the -likely- word rather than the -correct- word and training said engine on everything everyone ever wrote online produces Not what's needed*

wage decline all around. even respectable jobs like bank robber and guy who ties maidens to train tracks cant make enough to live comfortably on

It's pathetic that in as heavily armed a society as we live in, totalitarian bullshit is happening without meaningful opposition. Cowards and boot lickers.

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Put down the wizard book shit

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I hear stories like this and it's just fucking awful. We let the worst kind of people take up too much space, and it renders us unable to organize at all.

I feel like doomerism in that post stops just before it gets good.
No one IS coming to save us.
It WILL get worse before it gets better.
True!
How can one not immediately follow that with the idea we have to fight like hell until things change? It's up to us!

Ok which one did something?

To have an honest discussion about this, we should acknowledge how the biggest, most well funded group coordinating stuff does in fact suck up a lot of the oxygen we need to start our own fires. So, I think it makes sense to engage with no kings marches in an effort to help people see other options.

Got up early and sat in the dark. And it's cold, and the sun is rising. I feel like there's a lot of insurmountable awful stuff. And one day it'll all be too much?
But today I'm going to get up and fight for better.

Maybe it's me? But I'm in the struggle until it's entirely hopeless. Then I'm in the struggle just to spit in the face of hopelessness.

Just, we gotta liberate people from the sense that they need a legitimate, top down authority for their actions to mean anything.
No Kings forbids even civil disobedience! We are going to need civil disobedience at the very least to change things.

I agree we need a big coalition. So if transphobes want to fight fascism, I'd say they need to recognize that antifascism is going to need a big tent, so they're going to have to stop issuing political purity test and let trans people live their lives. We can't afford to shrink the tent for them.

I dislike "big tent." I like "solidarity." Solidarity holds on even when it's unpopular, which is dangerous, but it doesn't let people go. I distrust those willing to give up this group to get that group while saying "we need all groups." We DO need all groups; so hold tightest to marginal groups.

I feel like doomerism in that post stops just before it gets good.
No one IS coming to save us.
It WILL get worse before it gets better.
True!
How can one not immediately follow that with the idea we have to fight like hell until things change? It's up to us!

When you talk about abandoning the culture war, in practice how do you align yourself when you see something like an effort to ban trans medical care? Is it something that you'd oppose?

Remember, any time racists are making excuses for other, more dead racists by saying "they were products of their time" that so was John Brown.

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i killed him. we are free