@TheAbbotTrithemius

New York and California will be resistance hubs.
Newsom has recalled legislature into session. NY will be back in session soon too. As the Commerce & financial center of the US, there is much that can be done legally and legislatively to resist.

@Bliss @TheAbbotTrithemius Washington State reporting for duty. We have fewer people, but we are true-blue up and down the ballot.

@agunn @TheAbbotTrithemius

Thank you!

@Bliss

Everyone seems sick of, including me, the term resist (so 2016 right??), but we need to do more than that in the next 4 years, we need to be conduits and connectors to a country that is pre-MAGA. I think there's a danger some people just say, fuck it, can't beat them join them, and that's bullshit. We NEVER EVER ALLOW MAGA-ISM to be normalized or for it to be seen as as anything but an aberrational freakish anomaly that is TEMPORARY.

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@TheAbbotTrithemius

agreed.

@Bliss

So retaining the idea of what we are now as an imperfect Democracy, but also I think the Dems are going to come out of this stronger, and it's going to require a lot of soul-searching. A LOT. And that means we can't constantly let the MAGA-shitheads keep setting the narrative and getting us to react to THEM.

The GOP is beyond dead. Trump has clipped it's wings and enslaved it. It's fed off it's own body to survive.

I would rather be where we are now than them.

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@Bliss

Let me amend this, I wrote: "we need to be conduits and connectors to a country that is pre-MAGA."

PRE and POST-MAGA.

@TheAbbotTrithemius

When a democracy is taken for granted it languishes then dies. Germans, italians and spaniards had to live through the death of their systems and live through fascism to appreciate and protect their democracy. Sadly, we will have to experience the loss of it in order to fight for it.

In my neighborhood someone put up posters that read: "Biden/Harris are out!
Zionism is Dead!" Someone else wrote underneath, "Nah bitch, palestine is dead! Get ready for your deportation!"

@Bliss @TheAbbotTrithemius

That explains a lot, in a way; a bunch of people got it into their heads that everything they were angry about could be attached to President Biden and Vice President Harris, and they could get their revenge by voting against (or refusing to vote for) Harris. They just refused to realize that all of their agendas were different and, therefore, their outcomes could not possibly be "wins" for all of them.

@DavidSalo @TheAbbotTrithemius

David, something that I saw at the polling place where I was working: On Nov 5th, a group of 15 people came in, mostly men, all who were wearing a keffiyeh as a shawl over their shoulders, making a political statement. Don't know who they voted for, but it was clear that they were making a protest vote. And here we are.