Brave Little Hitachi Wand

I see people who are showing concern borne of experience, and with marked consensus. If you’re confident they’re wrong about your situation, it still may be worth reflecting on what they’ve learned and to limit your ambitions - or at least, consider building things on a more conservative timeline than you were imagining. Have big dreams, but start with biting off an amount you can certainly chew.

…I was going to do a joke on that angle but I couldn’t make it funny enough not to hurt

nothing splinters a movement like victory

Felt that

All y’all are fighting the wrong people in this thread. We all agree it’s a bad situation and there’s no prize for “best degree of historical nuance in an opinion”. We all agree the enemy is present in the moment.

Because of course his kid being trans is somehow about him, that’s what being a narcissist is all about

To hell with him then

They would change their tune if someone showed a little backbone.

Dem insiders just don’t have the same values as their erstwhile voters

Can’t believe I clicked that. I fancy I know now how it feels to be an elf hearing the language of Mordor.

The customer is always right, especially when they’re left.

They know that any charming or well funded democrat needs to be shat on years in advance of any presidential ambitions in order to make whatever groaning pork mound ends up on their ticket stands a chance

You do not recant? If my testimony cannot move you, it is doubtful that you yearn to accept a contradiction, though it pleases you to pretend it.

I have forsaken a friend of over twenty years on these issues. I have made myself and my family immigrants among the English, all because I have known for years that America was fated for fascism. Still I do not say all Americans are Nazis.

If you brainlessly admit no nuance into the matter, why say anything at all? Better to remain silent and sneer at those less fortunate, like a fucking nazi.

Shiggles, the way you said this makes it sound like you’re calling every American in America a nazi. I doubt whether you intended this, but that is the reading people are responding to.

They are responding to a heinously stupid stance. I hope and trust you will see this.

I am an American who has been boycotting America as an immigrant elsewhere for the last 4 years. I had the understanding, privilege, and nerve to know all of this was coming down the pipe and to act accordingly.

Most Americans are not Nazis. The electoral system is not only systematically, but also in specific regulatory and monetary senses, skewed in the direction of Nazis. This has been an issue arguably since the Powell Memo half a century ago, but the roots of this poison go back all the way to before the country was an official entity.

It’s a shame, too. If “states rights” ended up being the fatal flaw in a neo-Confederate coup attempt, that would be just desserts.

I was writing in the midst of a morning torpor, and could not think how to put such a fine point on it. You’re spot on.

I don’t want to discourage you, she seems like a worthy candidate. It’s this “even if they did nothing” talk that grabs me. The average dem voter is so accustomed to weakness that we’re starting to sound like a battered partner.

Please understand that they still will cheat if they can, because it’s more fun for them that way

More “survived a punch” than “won a fight”

I don’t think it’s conspiracism territory when you have specific people/corporations with definite short to mid-term goals that are concrete and realistic. Elites hate not controlling mass media, been that way since movable type. If we went back to having town criers they’d pass anti-shouting laws.

It’s almost like billionaires buy media outlets for a reason