A penitent who is loud

Truly amazing. A huge part of this guy’s political identity is “no foreign wars”

Is that a thing?

Peaky Blinders meme: No fighting with regime-run accounts. No fucking fighting with regime-run accounts!

Especially do not interact with the new DHS account. Not only is this account solely here to taunt & gloat, they have an entire branch of armed thugs at their command and have shown exactly the sort of petty malice to turn them loose on dissidents.

Do. Not. Interact. You cannot dunk on them.

Of course they are! These people will LOSE.

But we shouldn't trip over our own feet.

You can easily block the official MAGA government accounts here. Do not engage them. Do not give them what they want.

block this shit

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You should block the MAGA government-created Bluesky accounts.

Do not engage them.

Do not give them a single scrap of what they want.

Do yourselves a favor. Do not interact with the various malevolent government accounts now with a presence on BlueSky. Not only will nothing you say register to them, don't underestimate their hunger for persecuting anyone who talks back.

Consider just blocking them entirely, and DNI.

it is pretty funny that the government is so completely obsessed with Posting that they came here to set up accounts during a shutdown

Nobody ever joined up with an organized ideological movement in my personal experience to get dunked on by state agents, they join because they think they're going to eventually get to do the kicking or be badass urban guerillas defying authority & self actualizing with cool splash photo images.

I don't actually know what the solution is here, especially because the main way, one could argue, that the left sustained a long term sense of enthusiasm and morale WAS through propagandized narratives of the mighty militant left, instead of "you get your ass kicked until they give up."

People *want* it to work, because it feels more empowering, more defiant. The mythology of the Noble Masses who could easily overturn the wicked few by force of arms is strong! It's humiliating and degrading to keep taking a punch!

But if we had the power to fight, we wouldn't be in this mess.

They matter for the people *directing* the protests, not for the social potency of the protests.

Passion and ideological or intellectual rigor is useful to *direct* that mass action, and necessary. It is also a management task, which is distinct from the simple task of getting bodies out into the street to create a wellspring of social power.

Political action is getting a critical mass of social momentum behind cause or against a program. The content of your mind or soul does not matter.

Political action is not about the purity of your conviction or the rigor of your beliefs or the demonstration of personal or community character you display. None of that MATTERS and we need to stop prioritizing it in our hagiographic views of the past and present.

We need to stop assessing political action as primarily a display of one's own extreme passion and ideological rigor.

An oppressed person defying oppressive persecution and the most feckless median voter have the exact same number of votes: 1.

Politics is a numbers game. Nothing else matters

keep an eye out today for every single person either fedposting about how it's only safe to protest in black bloc drag, or trying to indelibly associate protests with omnicause watermelon emoji shit instead of normie liberals fed up with temu monarchy. they are trying to kneecap us. do not let them!

People desperately want No Kings, and protest in general, to be their chance to finally Be Cool and enact our cultural fantasies around cool street resistance.

You didn't see them - and you know who 'them' is, I mean it no broader and especially no narrower than deserved - saying "a real Holocaust" for years now? Well before October 7th? There's no mitzvah to be stupid. Victims need not be perfect nor imagined as perfect.

"it has a Star of David..." no shut up
"Palestinians are calling it a Holocaust..." so don't listen to those Palestinians (and if you keep failing on which Palestinians to listen to, stop listening to Palestinians, 'listening' is a useless ritual as far as humanitarian matters go)

Some of you who are ceding ground on "Israel inherently acts in the name of Judaism and we need to accept that" were letting yourselves be gamed on Holocaust terminology the week before. Stop falling for manipulation; any associate of yours who requires these purity tests isn't worth it.

Some Jewish friends are too easily persuaded into accepting anti-Jewish talking points in the spirit of fairness.

You need to stop doing this.

It just is not WORTH this amount of nerd passion over it!

How much do you think the myth of the superior Tiger has to do with the individualized nature of its supposed strengths? You correctly describe the superior traits of the Sherman here as being strategic boons, but perhaps armor and firepower registers more to the crew than logistical strengths?

my experience of Europe as an American is more or less “free healthcare for what I understand French people to be and let’s launch all immigrants into the sun”

in spirit, that is Horse.

hornet is a horse girl

To be fair if we win an election we can probably prosecute some of them for their very real and tangible crimes