• Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.ca
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    7 days ago

    The other side is already scouring obscure precedent to use to disqualify and deport him. So while this is great news, I won’t hold my breath for any sort of actual election victory past the primary.

    Going through the motions of elections right now feels very much pointless since only someone incredibly naive would think that the right has any intention of allowing elections to matter any more.

    The sooner Americans realise that it’s Let Them Eat Cake time the sooner they can move on with guillotine o’clock.

    Peaceful protests, boycotts and sternly worded letters rely on the people you’re protesting having a sense of shame. Which the right (and most of the left) no longer have.

    • JaggedRobotPubes@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      This is not nearly as true as it seems. Sustained protest and sustained cultural change can and does work.

      Hell, look at all these nazis covering their faces. You think they’re proud? Republicans in Congress are incapable of making eye contact with their co-workers. Proudly defiant my ass, these people know the score.

      Far more of them are looking to hop off that burning pile of shit than we realize, and we need to openly be a place where everybody who abandoned that loser ship for real can come join the normal people looking to stop it.

      • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.ca
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        6 days ago

        Yes. They are proud.

        I hate to tell you, but they’re not covering their face out of a sense of shame; they’re covering them in order to prevent retaliation from people who disagree with them. They have no shame about what they’re doing.

        If they are recognised and shunned, or refused service because of their actions, there’s no shame or self-reflection. it’s still the fault of the “damn libs”. THAT’S why they cover their faces; because they know they’re actions are unpopular and will get them retaliated against.

        But knowing their actions are unpopular doesn’t mean for a second that they’re ashamed of those actions. On the contrary, the fuckers are proud to be doing Trumps dirty work.

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        6 days ago

        So after 8 more years of walking around with signs and nothing happening, can we please try moving atoms around in physical reality to enact change in physical reality?