Robert M Brown

Not a new idea, BTW.

"The primary and necessary object of all existence is to be happy, but happiness cannot be obtained individually; it is useless to expect isolated happiness; all must partake of it or the few will never enjoy it." -- Robert Owen, The Book of the New Moral World, 1836

Even if there was no poem, and they weren't coming for anyone else, speaking up would be the right thing to do.

None of us are free until all of us are free.

That's nice.

I think there's only one reason why people would be running around saying, "No, don't worry about any election interference! Our electoral system is invulnerable!"

And it's not because that's true.

I think you're either running a fascist op, or overestimating how many precincts it takes to swing an election.

You guys would be more credible if you'd stop claiming that the government would need to change every single vote cast in the country when everyone knows better.

My assumption when I see someone dismissing any possibility that the Federal Government is even capable of influencing elections is that that person is a fascist operative trying to preclude opposition.

Have you ever heard of this institution known as 'The Federal Government'? They have something like 150,000 law enforcement officers and well over a million in the armed forces.

Are you seriously asking 'How can the Federal Government possibly force its will on the states?'

He doesn't need to enforce it in every state in the Union. Just like 3 of them. That's enough.

Damn, you really love you some Nazis.

An average of about $6400 per household. That's real money for a whole lot of people.

theauthoritarians.org

Oh, look at you making up a guy in your head to pretend to be mad at so you can suck up to the people who actually let them walk

I'm sure you do

Well good for them. Too bad they didn't have it when it might have helped.

When given the chance, they didn't prosecute him, but if given the chance again they definitely will.

Uhm hmm. Okay.

So you're saying that the coup attempt and all the other crimes weren't enough, but now it's serious.

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And there's the block. Hah.

"I have long been of the mind that it's silly to argue against 'platforming' these people. They already have big followings. Exposing them to the normies is a good thing: much more likely to be a counterweight than a boost."

No, you're the one saying you've done research, but won't show it.

But you also think that platforming Nazis is a good thing.

The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump, Harry Turtledove

My favorite was an episode of The Walking Dead that had the zombies going 'nom nom nom.'

I understand. There's a tendency, though, to think of writers as these remote oracles from whom books sometimes appear. But mostly they're just folks.

Or perhaps I'm just nervy and inured to talking to writers. I had the nerve to email Terry Pratchett once...and he was kind enough to reply.

You can ask @annleckie.com you know. I don't think she'd be offended.

You haven't said that you don't think he's a Nazi.

What I'm hearing from you is that you're okay with him being a Nazi and are just trying to deflect because you know that Nazis are still unpopular among Democrats.

Nazi.

None of us are free until all of us are free.

He doesn't seem to think so.

You never did say what you think a primary is for.

Is it possible to nominate anyone other than Newsom? What do you think primaries are for?

Interesting. Where was that? It's not what I was taught in New England.

I mean, it's literally the thing in the 'Are we the baddies?' sketch. If he's not a Nazi he's dumber than a bag of rocks.

Ducky, it's not 'the left' that needs to think about that.

Critical Nostalgia‬ ‪@highway62.bsky.social‬ posts: Seeing some "She only sold 37 books on Amazon!" and folks, ain't a one of my titles sold more than that when self-published. I get it. She's a scammer and a slopper but if we're talking about sales as arbiters of a minimum of quality, you've already been suckered.

This is completely missing the point, which isn't that the books have only sold 37 copies because they're bad, but that she's LYING about how many books she's sold, and how much money she's made.