• N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    I’m going to be ignoring the news for the next couple years. “Trump Did Something Horrific,” followed by nothing of any consequence but “raising awareness.”

    Wake me up when there’s a real resistance.

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      I’m not American and will do the same. The amount of artificial and inflated drama is just unbearable. Not for another four years.

      “Trump said this unacceptable thing!!!1!” followed by a few days of outrage, nothing changes, then he says another stupider shit a few days layer and the cycle continues.

      In a way I’m sure the media are very happy for that Trump win. They’re gonna have some drama every fucking day.

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      Ah yes the embodiment of the French Revolutionaries spirit. Paraphrasing the slogan, wasn’t it something like

      wake me up my brothers after the king gets beheaded, why would I go out with my pitchfork if nothing’s gonna happen”.

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        I can’t speak to others but it’s exhausting. All the “did something illegal” “got egg on the face of the US” “made a clown of himself”. I can only be outraged for so long before I’m burned out. I’ve voted every election big and small. I’ve argued and talked with people about how bad this could be. I’ve told people who didn’t know there are still literal wars going on and how there is an avenue for ww3. People don’t care or they think trump is the one to see us through and any changes he wants to make are good.

        What else can I do? I’m not going to take up arms because I still believe in our democracy.

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          get organized! there are loads of community-based action groups that provide mutual aid services. the democratic socialists of America is a great example but there are plenty of other options if that’s not for you

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          Just like I’ve been telling my queer friends: some days you fight; some days you rest. You cannot fight if you don’t take care of yourself.

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      I suspect that’s going to be a long long looooooonnnng sleep you will be having there :(

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    as someone who has never used twitter, it always confuses me that twitter sometimes puts the reply before the message that’s being replied to. why do it this way?

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      It isn’t so much as a reply on a re-tweet, if you comment or “reply” to any tweet then the layout is the same as any other social media site and nests it under the post. Whereas for re-tweeting it is more like sharing something, like a link or an article, and your desired message into a post, just like here in lemmy your title or message is at the top and your content is under it. In this context the tweet is your content.

      I hope that made sense

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        this does make sense. thank you for explaining it. i had always thought that retweet was the twitter word for reply (a reply that is also a tweet), but this makes way more sense.

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      If you’re following someone but not the person they’re replying to, this is how it shows up because the design assumes you’re more interested in what the person you’re following has to say, and just includes the original for context

      disclaimer: I don’t really use the website so I could be slightly off. It probably doesn’t require you only be following one of the two users, moreso that reply tweets (sorry, reply Xs on X) from people you follow show like “normal” top level posts in your feed

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    This was the last time i vote for a dem candidate. they pay mouth service to progressive policies, but at the end of the day, they do next to nothing for us.

    back in in the 2010s when obama was president, there was a time when the dems controlled the house AND the senate at the same time. we still didn’t get any real progressive shit passed. the only thing i can think of is daca and obamacare. we didn’t get single payer, universal nationalized healthcare, we didn’t get robust protections for the working class, we didn’t responsibly pull out of iraq or afghanistan, the environment is fucked and there’s nothing that we can do about it anymore, big banks got bailed out at the expense of the working class, university cost was and has continued to be at an all time high. They didn’t fix the gerrymandering the gop has been getting away with. They didn’t set term limits on justices. they didn’t fight back when the Rs blocked merick garland. They did nothing to fix the broken electoral system. They did nothing to fix the economic policies set in the reagan era. they did nothing to set a law banning PACs, lobbyists or special interests. the only thing the dem party has going for it is that they are not literally the party of fascists.

    2 weeks before the election wasn’t the time to start getting excited about a third party. The time for third partying is now, and keep it up until the next one. I’m not going to forgive the dem party for their inaction and they should absolutely be punished by no longer existing as the opposition party.

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      If you truly want to see how much effort the Democrat party wastes punching Left, then stick with your convictions about organnizing and voting third party up through the next presidential election.

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        I’m done. I can’t with them anymore. I’ve voted dem every single election since 08 and they can’t seem to beat a literal fascist 2 out of 3 times. It’s not because they aren’t the progressive party, it’s because they don’t actually do anything. they talk, but don’t act.

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          I get it. I came to similar conclusions sometime between Hillary’s loss and the end of the 2020 primaries. -Trump is not some intellectual mastermind, it takes a special amount of arrogance on behalf of his opponents to lose a presidential campaign against him. To think the Dem party lost to him twice…

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        I don’t even know what this text is in reference to and I have no concrete suggestions immediately. But I will be thinking, connecting, and sharing in the coming months as a strategy emerges. Trumpism can still be defeated. The election was plan A but it’s time to come up with plan B. I am thinking that it’s going to take massive organized civil disobedience. We directly disrupt their ability to govern and harm marginalized people.

        But it’s going to take more than just me, so I ask everyone here to be ready and participate in whatever capacity you can.

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          My “text” is a direct response to your comment that proceeded it. Im not sure how that’s confusing.

          The fact of the matter is the election results are legal, certified, and recognized by every country on Earth. As much as I hate it, and I really really hate it, that’s reality.

          Unless things get ridiculously out of hand, which has yet to be seen, the only real thing anyone can do is create protests and marches, and vote for change when the time comes.

          If you think you’re going to create a “resistance army” you’re going to be checked very hard by reality. Your little keyboard warrior “massive organized civil disobedience” will be as lame as Jan 6.

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        if you want things to change, first you have to find a way to be able to confidently say “I’m ready for things to change”. Then, you have to help other people find a way to say it too. And when there’s finally enough people, nobody has to “go first”.

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          I mean that’s a nice sentiment, but it’s not the late 19th century anymore. Even if it was, that’s not really how revolutions worked in the past.

          The majority of revolutions that have been successful in the past have sprung from pre-arranged hierarchical bodies like the military. There is a reason the US military was developed to be domestically apolitical, and is forbidden to operate in any real sense within the United States.

          If there is some sort of revolution it’s perfectly reasonable to assume there will be Martyrs, it’s also perfectly reasonable to not want to willingly participate in martyrdom.

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        I went to DC and yelled at a bunch of brutalist buildings. I’m sure someone in one of those knows a guy who knows someone who sometimes gets close enough to see a representative. I did my part!

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              The part of the 60s that enacted change was not peaceful.

              That said, here is an especially relevant section of a document from 1963:

              [ We have waited for more than 340 years for our constitutional and God given rights. The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jetlike speed toward gaining political independence, but we still creep at horse and buggy pace toward gaining a cup of coffee at a lunch counter. Perhaps it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of segregation to say, “Wait.” But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim; when you have seen hate filled policemen curse, kick and even kill your black brothers and sisters; when you see the vast majority of your twenty million Negro brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society; when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six year old daughter why she can’t go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children, and see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky, and see her beginning to distort her personality by developing an unconscious bitterness toward white people; when you have to concoct an answer for a five year old son who is asking: “Daddy, why do white people treat colored people so mean?”; when you take a cross county drive and find it necessary to sleep night after night in the uncomfortable corners of your automobile because no motel will accept you; when you are humiliated day in and day out by nagging signs reading “white” and “colored”; when your first name becomes “nigger,” your middle name becomes “boy” (however old you are) and your last name becomes “John,” and your wife and mother are never given the respected title “Mrs.”; when you are harried by day and haunted by night by the fact that you are a Negro, living constantly at tiptoe stance, never quite knowing what to expect next, and are plagued with inner fears and outer resentments; when you are forever fighting a degenerating sense of “nobodiness”–then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait. There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair. I hope, sirs, you can understand our legitimate and unavoidable impatience. You express a great deal of anxiety over our willingness to break laws. This is certainly a legitimate concern. Since we so diligently urge people to obey the Supreme Court’s decision of 1954 outlawing segregation in the public schools, at first glance it may seem rather paradoxical for us consciously to break laws. One may well ask: “How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?” The answer lies in the fact that there are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that “an unjust law is no law at all.”]

              https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html

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              The civil unrest of the 60s worked because the black panthers were presenting the path to real change, so the establishment compromised by giving rights to people without threatening their power.

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    I’m not an American. Does Congress actually have the ability to enforce the laws they write? What would someone expect a Senator to do?

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      Warren’s party currently controls the executive branch. Though she can’t enforce the law, she knows and works with those who can.

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        And they have had that “official acts” thing from the supreme court for months. Zero reason this problem should have ever lasted this long.

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        They won’t. They are going to hand the keys to the next admin, as is decorum. They do things by the book and maintain tradition. This party at every opportunity shows how completely inept they are.

        They’ve abandoned us.

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      If they had a house majority and 60 Senators then they could either never inaugurate Trump or remove him via impeachment and vote to remove, same with federal judges he appointed.

      Problem is they only had 60 for one month over a decade ago, now currently don’t even have a majority.

      The USA voted for crime and destruction.

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    Nick Fuentes address is public and he’s still breathing. Tells me all I need to know about liberal activists.

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      You could say that about all activists. It’s not like the leftists don’t think Nick Fuentes is a Nazi shitstain. You know it, why are you here posting rather than carrying out the assassination you’re condemning others for not performing?

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    “I wrote a law that we’re not going to enforce!”
    - The lady who passes her husband insider info on deals being made in congress such that his stock trades are near-miraculous despite insider trading being horribly unethical for a senator and also illegal, too

    Edit: ooppps. wrong senator. (Didn’t pelosi say something similar?)

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        The political discourse here is horrible. There’s 30 people agreeing with that person’s incorrect statement.

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          This community is just perpetually disappointing. How the fuck are you someone interested in progressive politics and not know the difference between Nancy Pelosi and Elizabeth Warren? Especially on corruption and stocks. She’s one of the main voices leading the effort to ban stock trading by electeds and their families. The is is the most upvoted comment in the entire post!

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          Yeah, I’ve heard this claim about pelosi repeated but I’ve yet to see any evidence of her husband’s miraculous stock trades.

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              It’s worth noting that the lawmakers tracked by the fund also hold shares in many of the same stocks that are popular with hedge funds. This has led to the fund’s impressive performance, despite the ongoing scrutiny of lawmakers’ stock trades.

              If you can’t even take the time to read your own article and make sure it actually supports your point, why should I take your position on anything as being informed?

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                That’s the subjective spin of Business Insider. That’s them trying to justify it because they’re very much in favor of it.

                I don’t have to agree with the subjective parts to share it for the factual parts.

                If you can’t tell spin from relevant information, why should I take your position on anything as being informed?

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                  I’m not allowed to use the source you brought because it’s not credible enough.


                  Um, anyways:

                  The Unusual Whales Democratic ETF (BATS:NANC), in a nod to former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has seen a 30% surge since its inception on Feb. 7, 2023. This growth surpasses the 24% gain of the S&P 500 during the same period, reported Business Insider.

                  It’s not even Pelosi’s “own personal stock index”, it’s an independent index based off publicly disclosed trades made by members of congress, and it’s done well for one year (yeah, that absolutely could be a coincidence). It’s not even hard to find evidence to support your position, and I’m not even particularly disagreeing with you! Congress is openly corrupt! You just really, clearly, did not read your source. It directly refutes all the claims you’re making here.

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        Apologies, I made a mistake. I’ve edited my comment to reflect it. (thanks for informing me.)