No part of what you said addresses my point, so I’ll repeat myself: Resistance movements have to worry about being coopted from the inside almost as much as they do about being crushed from the outside. Introspection and self-awareness are crucial if this movement is going to survive. Internal conflict is often rightly cited as a danger to any movement, but it’s also a survival mechanism that shouldn’t be shut down out of hand.

Thanks Biden!

Thanks Biden!

If you don’t address the inaction, you won’t beat the system. “We can address all the systemic issues in our movement after our movement succeeds” has borne out in history approximately 0 times. More often either the movement fails entirely or it’s coopted by its most conservative elements who turn it into something completely different.

If the Democratic Party had half a brain

Reverse Hanlon’s razor. Don’t attribute to stupidity what can only be explained by malice. They (kind of) know what they’re doing.

AFAIK Lemvotes runs a private instance with a bot (???) as an admin which it uses to collect downvote information (as others have explained, the information is already there, it’s just private on the client side on most Fediverse platforms).

Have you ever talked to anime fans? It’s probably similar.

My impression is that they’ve been purging people from past administrations, not their own appointees. If that’s off the mark I’ll have to rethink my position, but so far the purges can be explained by how they likely want high-ranking bureaucrats and military officers to be solidly in their camp.

I disagree on the MAGA part. MAGA is currently preparing for a coup, so they need ideologically compliant sycophants at the top levels of power. That’s not paranoia; it’s a pragmatic and effective strategy.

Yeah that’s the point of the title, “the more things change, the more they stay the same.”

Thanks for stating the obvious?

When they leave absolutely no room for doubt that’s the way it’s going to be, then there will be far less hesitation when it comes to opposing them.

Sure, but in return they’ll be far more powerful, and the math here is overwhelmingly in their favor. Both authoritarianism and resistance require time and preparation, so there’s no time to waste on electoral politics when it’s already known that it won’t work. Any resistance movement that tries to establish itself after the authoritarian takeover will simply be crushed; the time to stop the Nazis was before the Enabling Act, not after.

Somalia is committing fewer Holocausts than 1945 Germany, so yeah.

They’re not going to let you vote them out. That ship has already sailed.

K.

They work for the same boss, that’s what’s going on.

Relevant.

You can guess how much love I have for US allies.

I love the smell of leopards eating faces in the morning.

I have to constantly remind myself that this is what people in this country voted for

*What they accepted. There are a lot of ways to help fascists that don’t involve voting for them and aren’t mutually exclusive with voting against them. Fascism takes a lot more work on both sides of the aisle than just winning an election, and I for one am not letting the DNC apologists off the hook.

But Israel insists it’s been built without the necessary permits.

No mention of how it’s almost impossible to get the necessary permits. This article doesn’t even have a pro-Israel slant so it’s just weird how this piece of information isn’t included.