Doesn’t even know the presidential oath he pledged.

You proud now MAGAts? Does this make you proud?

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He knows. He just hasn’t consolidated enough power yet to outright openly say he doesn’t give a shit. But keep waving those protest signs around guys. I’m sure that’ll slow him down.

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That’s the issue isn’t it? Things aren’t bad enough that armed rebellion would be successful. If you tried you’d die and the vast majority will simply call you a terrorist and move on. Maybe you’ll get some popularity like luigi while the state works on executing you.

So instead people protest, but at best that may swing one or two votes in congress, but not enough to stop anything.

But as things get progressively worse and the state becomes more authoritarian revolution will also be harder as many will be tossed into a gulag before they can take up arms.

Plus any armed resistance will be used as an excuse to declare martial law.

Seems like a no win scenario. The current best chance is he has a stroke and Vance fails to govern effectively

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The solution is to work towards forming and building up antifascist guerilla resistance blocks, so that when shit really starts getting too real for people, resistance groups are there ready to go

Yes, it of course would have been better to do it all earlier, but as you said…

It’s super frustrating, for sure. You can plainly see what’s gonna happen, and yet most people are too clueless to support it

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Don’t forget calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. The Gaza virtue signallers really hated that.

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We can blame the MAGA crowd, too. There’s enough blame to go around. We can also blame the strategists who killed the momentum that Harris/Walz had.

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Apologies, but I only skimmed your reply. I don’t disagree with you that non-voters share the blame. I just don’t want to give anybody a free pass here.

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It’s not the Dems fault that so many people didn’t give a shit about marginalized groups.

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I think the Dem strategists who say we need to abandon pronouns cost more votes than they gained. Need more primary challengers and voters to steer the party.

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I’ve been saying this for a long time.

The people who stayed home or voted third party are still trying to blame Dems for this, because the Dems didn’t try hard enough and “didn’t inspire them”.

Yeah? Well if you need a politician to inspire you to show up and fill out a piece of paper that will help protect marginalized groups, then you’re a piece of shit.

I’m not a Dem. Never will be. But I understood what was on the line.

Gaza is gonna get glassed, my gay and trans loved ones are in immediate danger, among God knows how much more heinous shit is going down.

They said they were gonna do this. And a huge group of people who wanted to be seen as morally pure decided to sit it out to feel superior.

You’re not superior. You’re a monster. The Dems shouldn’t have to “inspire” you to stop a fascist regime. It’s American exceptionalism at it’s fucking worst.

Fuck ALL of them. All of em.

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Even dems are still American, and everything is about MEEEE!

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She was the second shittiest candidate, but in a two horse race, why would anyone choose otherwise? Baffling.

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Imagine celebrating a fascist swearing allegiance to a slavemasters pact.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_religion

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I’ve got it! Let’s wring our hands about this while we continue to do nothing. Wait until it’s too late, and THEN start to fight back. That’ll show ‘em!

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Someone start a Facebook group, this person is onto something!

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I take it that you’d recommend a celebration on the 5th of November?

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Hey, you’re really on to something …we could even have like an expression or stanza or something. “Remember, remember the fifth of November” sounds good.

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November is far away shouldn’t we do say July 4th. Give our country the greatest gift on it’s birthday.

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I was referring to his username, but hey, if it means no more fascism, July is a nice time of year.

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This what you get, no-vote cowards.

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This is what you get for running two genocidaires.

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This is what you get for running two genocidaires.

Ahhh there it is… Finally getting honest are we?

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What do you mean? The Democrats ran horribly unpopular genocidal candidates and lost. Do you disagree?

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I’m mad at the Democrats for under signing a genocide thus disaffecting their would be voters.

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the world is not binary. there are many people who bare part of the responsibility:

  • the republican party - all of them
  • republican voters
  • the democratic party
  • no-voters (who didn’t want to “support genocide” and now you have a worse genocide and a bunch of other horrible shit including a shit load of extra war crimes in ukraine for the foreseeable future)
  • the media

these and many more can have played a part all at the same time

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The media is largely controlled by billionaires and thus republicans by association.

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Ikr, so hard to blame the republicans and the people who didn’t vote for the shit us is in rn /s

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