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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lin7mc5Feso

…ye gads, i adore aerial but most of her ouvre pre-ninth wave does nothing for me…

…i think we explored this place in our call of cthulhu campaign; poor henry was reduced to black ooze…

…y’all roughly correlates with coke, although there are some deep pockets of soda-water in the back country…

…my grandparents punched fascists; it’s a mark of civility that we only call them names…

shyeeah. right.

…lap dog’s going to do whatever his handler commands…

…i held my nose and voted democrat in the face of imminent fascism, and i’ll never forgive the fascists for forcing my hand…

…that hard choice wasn’t enough, though, and i don’t blame you for that…

…“baby steps” they called that corporate handout, fomented by a groundswell of apologists that patience would be rewarded in due course…

sixteen.
f*cking.
years.

…when was the last time the democratic party ran a legitimately progressive platform?..i’m not talking about vacuous platitudes, i’m talking about articulated commitment backed up by tangible, substantive, follow-through changing the nature of established paradigm?..

…the electorate can vote or not vote for whomever the f*ck they see fit: that’s the fundamental point of democracy…

…the most-effective way to win those votes is to earn them, not to berate the electorate with a presumption of entitlement…

…the funny counterpart is that when liberals run a full-throated embrace of populism, their greatest threat isn’t the surge of new progressive supporters, but establishment democrats desperately afraid of losing conservatives who’d never support them anyway…

…was there one before?..

…you don’t win over conservatives by offering light-conservatism, but the democratic party have run the same playbook since 1992…

…i’m not sure that’s how one builds a coalition…

…rather presumptuous that non-voters were democrats…

…this is the crux of it: bernie’s time was eight years ago, and even though i absolutely respect his lucid resolve, the movement needs fresh figureheads to sustain its momentum…

https://acoup.blog/2024/10/25/new-acquisitions-1933-and-the-definition-of-fascism/

…the progressive movement held our collective noses and reacted to an existential crisis for the preservation of american democracy in the face of imminent fascism, and the coalition succeeded at that goal for a short while, but only just…