knightly the Sneptaur @ knightly @pawb.social

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Maybe people in the most heavily propagandized country on the planet should stop relying on the "Democratic" process.

They didn't even catch him:

Didn't say they were the same, I said that we have no control over what they do in our names

Rather, the parties and their owners control us as they have for generations, by owning the newsmedia and steering public opinion as they see fit.

Yeah, that's your sign.

Furries get a slightly different vision:

We haven't had any agency in this for a long time. The two parties run the show on behalf of our billionaire owners.

I'm almost hopeful, in a perverse, accelerationist sort of way... Trump might break this country badly enough to force a "renegotiation of the social contract".

The fascism persists only because it promises to be of benefit to its supporters.

Fascism falls apart when it fails to deliver them tangible benefits.

Trump's coalition is a house divided, he cannot provide his billionaire sycophants with economic benefits without taking them away from his voting base, and he can't do economic populism without disadvantaging the billionaires.

We're already seeing this with the H1-B visa debate. Musk, Zuckerberg, and Thiel want them for the cheap exploitable labor, and non-rich Republicans want the program to end for both anti-immigrant and economic nationalism reasons.

If the Democrats were allowed to be competent then they'd be hammering on this contradiction 'til the Republicans lose all their electoral relevance, but they won't because they're faced with the same contradiction among their own supporters.

After he got what he wanted from Trump, who capitulated immediately because the threat to tarrif Columbian imports was a bluff. Deliberately bumping the cost of coffee would be political suicide.

It was going to happen sooner or later, I'm just glad I got out of Texas before it started.

Syncopoli on the f-droid store supports both ssh and rsync. That'll cover your android for free.

We're emulating that with a home server and a VPN to reach it when we're out of the house. Though, thanks to the magic of storage, it's been at 90% for a while..

Grab stuff from the internet archive, copies of shows, movies, and music. Anytime you catch yourself streaming something, download it instead.

Like something? Save it. You can always delete it later to free up space but there's no guarantee you'll get the chance to download it again.

If Kamala was in office now then Trump would be a shoe-in for 2028.

I think I prefer our current reality where the Democrats might actually be forced to move left to reclaim their electoral relevance. They aren't of any use to me so long as they care more about bipartisanship and meeting Republicans halfway than actually addressing the pressing issues of our time.

If Kamala had won, all we'd be talking about today would be Jan 6th 2, the inauguration day terror attacks, and how the Democrats are already bending over backwards to capitulate to petulant Republicans.

Hey, maybe if the genocide comes here the Democrats will stop supporting it.

...Nah, who are we kidding? The Dems will just keep compromising in the hopes of appeasing the billionaire owners of this country.

Are you saying that genocide is good or forgetting that Democrats wanted to continue funding it?

Monofilament wire is a real thing, it just doesn't have the tensile strength to act like it does in fiction.

So you admit that a vote for either Democrats or republivans was a vote for genocide... and you're still blaming the voters for failing to vote for genocide?

Make it make sense.

Every accusation is an admission.

And who picks the candidates that voters are allowed to vote for?

Make friends, get organized, have a plan.

It's literally illegal to say more. Don't talk about it online or within earshot of "smart" devices.