Post Ak1JRnoryfPNMvcVyS by futurebird@sauropods.win
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(DIR) Post #Ak1ICQejiU0dEMzBgm by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-07-17T11:17:58Z
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There are many Republicans who think they will win and you can tell because they have no plan in sight for what they will do if they don't re-install Trump.Fighting with the desperate and cornered (desperate cornered wealthy and powerful) is dangerous.It seems arrogant & naive to me to assume you can shape the future like that? Will we be defeated by our pragmatism? Nothing about any of this is ordinary, this is the most openly broken things have been in my life.
(DIR) Post #Ak1IiuAvV4qc38Woq0 by tob@hachyderm.io
2024-07-17T11:23:46Z
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@futurebird I think things were pretty f-ed in Reagan times. And Dubya was awful.But I get your point. It feels like so many people seemed completely uninterested in progress for our country. Even Reagan had his "shining city on a hill."
(DIR) Post #Ak1JRnoryfPNMvcVyS by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-07-17T11:31:58Z
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@tob All they talk about is the people they want to get rid of. Immigrants, trans people, non-Christians...That's not a "vision" it's just bitterness and revenge.
(DIR) Post #Ak1JZHDL5T5WYtd5tY by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-07-17T11:33:15Z
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@tob I remember thinking how awful Bush was. But it wasn't like this.
(DIR) Post #Ak1JusDehLx3Pd4kmu by tob@hachyderm.io
2024-07-17T11:37:11Z
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@futurebird I want to believe that when push comes to shove, regular American voters will realize they're tired of Trump. It's all so boring.
(DIR) Post #Ak1KkJSpA9vug9hOfw by tob@hachyderm.io
2024-07-17T11:46:30Z
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@futurebird Nixon, Reagan, Dubya, Trump. Each step a steady decline in virtue. Each an increased willingness to use power for personal gain.The progression is disheartening. Trump is the purest distillation of the conservative ideal (without the "corrupting" influences of compassion or vision or intelligence).For all the talk about how MAGA is divorced from the GOP, it's where they've airways been headed.
(DIR) Post #Ak1LAbOx5tLxqAQJwO by billiglarper@rollenspiel.social
2024-07-17T11:51:10Z
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@futurebird @tob Agreed. The violence is the point. Not sure if they are cornered - more like greedy.The only good thing might be that these fascist movements tend to be fragile and prone to infighting. While the MAGA extremism is bigger than Trump, they might turn on each other and implode. Especially if they are not successful and get disrespected and shunned.The implosion of the Torries in UK might be an example.
(DIR) Post #Ak1LCWg5cwlllmMBfs by tkinias@historians.social
2024-07-17T11:51:36Z
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@futurebird Bush’s reelection in 2004 took me to a very dark place—the realization that white America actually *wanted* this man in office (as opposed to 2000, where he didn’t really win, and we could plausibly imagine that the apolitical types didn’t really understand what he was).It almost seems quaint now, though, to look back on how terrifying his administration was.@tob
(DIR) Post #Ak1Narm72XHe3kuMQS by gulovsen@mastodon.social
2024-07-17T12:18:23Z
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@futurebird I sense that as well but we have to fight and we have to win
(DIR) Post #Ak1NutnpD8d08jGGWm by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-07-17T12:22:01Z
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@tkinias @tob 9/11 had very bad impacts on this country. It didn't unite us or make us find our better selves. We couldn't even really contemplate why it happened or what it might mean. No, it was just used as a fear trigger to let us descend into nationalism. And now Mr. Vance is saying how he is "nationalist who worries about America's fertility."Now it's a task to even explain why nationalism is a bad philosophy. "What's wrong with loving your country?"
(DIR) Post #Ak1O9XWWKIItO09GcK by nicholas_saunders@mastodon.social
2024-07-17T12:24:38Z
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@futurebird @tkinias @tob 9/11 united the world for about five minutes. The same as covid.Then the knives came out. It's the human condition.
(DIR) Post #Ak1OHVXfZqkVYcU9zc by nicholas_saunders@mastodon.social
2024-07-17T12:26:03Z
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@futurebird @tkinias @tob reading this more carefully, you're picking up on the Handmaid's Tale (Tail?) vibe from decades ago.
(DIR) Post #Ak1QeDG7v1OtQGEaUS by 1dalm@deacon.social
2024-07-17T12:52:28Z
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@futurebird They might not have a plan B, but they are executing their Plan A extremely effectively.
(DIR) Post #Ak1jUC8V8a1iAmbVpI by palin@mastodon.social
2024-07-17T16:22:49Z
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@futurebird They are planning coup#2 so I truly hope that we are ready with the people needed to stop it immediately.And take no effing prisoners.
(DIR) Post #Ak1kLNZnKjsX0BjMbg by StevenSavage@sfba.social
2024-07-17T16:33:14Z
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@futurebird "The Unaccountability Machine" is a book I read recently and it explains a lot.The GOP is basically a runaway organization. It's identity is simplistic and inflexible. It's not evaluating actual impacts but winning oft in the short term. It has money to throw at problems.The question is does it implode, go off a cliff, or tear everything up? If the GOP faces a Uk/France situation it's response won't be rational. Anything from screaming for civil war to dramatic and unpredictable realignment. If it wins, it'll take us all off the cliff.
(DIR) Post #Ak2ZFnrfmCVSSVBwAK by nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social
2024-07-18T02:03:43Z
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@futurebird What scares me is now that they are cornered and lashing out violently, it scares people. But a lot of people think the proper solution when scared is to leave the cornered animal that is killing everyone alone hoping they'll be safe. Except when the room is clear and they are the only ones left suddenly they find out that it wasn't safe to ignore after all. The proper solution is, of course, to band together and stop the cornered animal from killing.