Just because I want to see you dig your own hole deeper: unpack that one for me, champ. How so?

Absolutely.

And honestly, I’m convinced that that generation more or less fully dying out in the last decade or so (and I mean across the western world, not just in the states) was a pretty direct cause of this fascist resurgence, because everyone who was a part of getting rid of fascism the hard way last time around is in the ground.

lol fuck you’re probably right 🫠

No, I genuinely do think the unsaid part of their game plan is to just destroy as much as they can, wherever they can, as they extract wealth from everything possible. And then they’ll try to bootstrap a techno-fascist feudal system, most likely.

I wouldn’t bet on it in this case. He’s been wanting to open some canned sunshine since his first term, but all the non-crazy people who were still all over the government made it effectively impossible for him to do it. Now he’s gotten rid of all those people and replaced them with loyalists. So, you know… hold on to your butts.

In a given population, you’re always going to have outliers. No population is THAT hermetically sealed.

• Disproportionally low votes for Harris, combined with normal spreads for other reps and elections? Funky, maybe worth looking at, but not a smoking gun.
• ZERO votes for Harris, combined with normal spreads for other reps and elections? That right there is a fucking HUGE smoking gun. That simply doesn’t happen in electoral statistics. It’s effectively impossible.

Yeah he might declare himself emperor or something, who fucking knows

It’s darkly impressive that city council members who live in a country that’s fighting for its life against a genocidal invasion would pull bullshit like this, but humans gonna human.

Lmfao holy shit. I low key hope he does it, because that would trigger the most insane rebellion from rich people, because he would immediately destroy the value of the dollar, and irrecoverably push the world away from the USD standard.

Ok so genuinely, what the actual fuck are the fash hoping to get out of this besides a simple distraction?

No, because the boomers will get big mad

This is all by design

Now that’s a username I can trust.

You clearly have not read the article, and thus don’t understand that the prophylactic nature of the shot requires a 6-month administration cycle. Like when you get a flu shot, or a Covid vaccine. Or (with current PrEP meds) a pill that you take every day.

Read the article.

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Yep, pretty much, if you’re talking about state schools.

And that’s by design. They’re doing their best to undermine higher education in any way they can because Steven Miller et al think that’s where the “woke mind virus” comes from, and also know that educated people are not only somewhat harder to grift, but also tend to think Miller and his ilk are (at the very least) massive assholes

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My prediction is that 3p candidates are gonna do shockingly well in 2026 (assuming we even have elections at that point, and assuming the elections aren’t manipulated six ways from Sunday - neither of those are safe assumptions).

So, call me crazy, but I really do think the protest organizers need to push WAY harder on the idea that while ICE is the enemy, the NG (and the military at large too, hopefully) is not. We should make posters saying stuff like “NG: We’re citizens, and you’re citizen soldiers; we should be friends!”

I genuinely do hope and believe that when the chips are really down at some point, if the National Guard or any active-duty unit is ordered to do something absolutely beyond the pale, they’d refuse the order and frag the person who gave it. I think that may be part of how we end up getting out of this shitshow. And yes, I do realize how deeply fucked it is that I’m basically banking on a mutiny by elements of the US Military as our final breakwater against fascism… but our civilian institutions are manifestly failing to meet the moment in any meaningful way.