mycorrhiza they/them @ mycorrhiza @lemmy.ml

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Yeah pretty much. The only exception I make is for people who are ignorant or haven't thought things through. Some can be persuaded when you explain the issue to them, as long as you carefully step around any mental firewalls they've developed. But when reactionary politics are an outgrowth of someone's shitty character there's not much you can do.

voting for Democrats is nowhere near enough to put a stop to these efforts

hell yeah

1. The Heritage Foundation was one dozens of right wing think tanks involved in writing this.
2. The Heritage Foundation is extremely influential and well-connected in the American right wing political sphere. They wrote hundreds of Trump's policies, picked a lot of his cabinet, and had 66 staffers in his administration. Pence joined in 2021.

you're "not even remotely worried" about the fact that one of the two parties that rules the country just wrote a 920-page plan to "eradicate LGBTQ people from public life"? Whether or not they manage to actually do it — and I don't find it as far-fetched as you do — they want to do it. They wrote a serious plan to do it. Maybe it won't be you getting criminalized, but it will be someone. Florida already passed a bill allowed the state to seize trans children from their parents. You're not even remotely worried?

You're going to trust SCOTUS to handle this?

These people pick SCOTUS. Their SCOTUS just mercked Roe v Wade.

A visibly armed LGBTQ community is a good way to counter right wing intimidation.

Also, cops aren't the only people to worry about. RIP Laura Carleton.

We need dual power — networks parallel to the established political system, able to organize effective protests, marches, demonstrations, and mass worker strikes, and to support individuals who are arrested or fired from their jobs in the course of those activities. Otherwise we're fucked imo. Voters don't get to choose policy. We vote for people. We vote for promises that are not kept. We vote for weasel words, vague convictions, "aspirational" platforms. At best, we vote to stall the inevitable, to pause the one-way ratchet of American politics for another turn. It's a ratchet that will slowly crush us.

I vote but it really feels like a pitiful stalling measure against the one-way ratchet of American politics.

We didn't vote the Civil Rights Act into existence. We got it only because the Civil Rights Movement — and massive, widespread urban violence — pushed the government to act. We got LGBTQ rights, tenuous as they are, because LGBTQ people fought and died for them. Labor rights, same thing, militant labor organizers fought and died for all the precarious protections we enjoy today, protections that are rolled back and eroded year after year, decade after decade, as the blue and red wheel turns.

We'll never halt climate change by voting, we'll never bring down housing costs by voting, we'll never raise wages by voting, we'll never gain universal healthcare (which 70% of Americans support) by voting, and we'll never secure LGBTQ rights or abortion rights by voting. The parties and the think tanks and the media and the politicians themselves will never let it happen. Both parties benefit from keeping those and other rights precarious. When our basic rights are at stake, we have no leverage to demand progress.

I vote, but I have no illusions about it.

The US doesn't enjoy a true representative democracy at all

Pretty much. A 2014 study put it like this

Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence.

and later, more bluntly,

In the United States, our findings indicate, the majority does not rule — at least not in the causal sense of actually determining policy outcomes. When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites and/or with organized interests, they generally lose. Moreover, because of the strong status quo bias built into the U.S. political system, even when fairly large majorities of Americans favor policy change, they generally do not get it.

Something like 70% of Americans want singlepayer healthcare, 75% want Citizen's United repealed, and iirc 90% of Americans want universal background checks for firearm purchases.

I see it the same way I see the lead-up to the holocaust: an effort to scapegoat a minority group and divert the outrage of a downwardly mobile middle class away from wealthy capitalists

the source of what, the article or the master plan?

The Heritage Foundation is one of the think tanks involved in writing the 920-page master plan discussed in the article.

And in the process they managed to repeal Roe v Wade

Another quote from the article, emphasis mine:

Most people aren’t aware of Project 2025, or its playbook, “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise”—but you need to be. In stark terms, Project 2025 reveals the conservatives’ plan to enact a sweeping “Don’t Say Gay” policy that will effectively blot out all LGBTQ content on the internet as well as any published material with LGBTQ content, no matter how benign.

Project 2025 is a coalition of prominent conservative organizations that includes the Claremont Institute, Alliance Defending Freedom, Family Research Council, Hillsdale College, Heritage Foundation, Freedom Works, American Legislative Exchange Council, American Principles Project, and dozens of others. The organization’s goal is to lay out a “first 180 days” agenda for the next administration, and to recruit conservatives to fill positions within the federal government appointed by the executive branch.

The Heritage Foundation alone is a massive, well-connected think tank with an annual budget of $38 million. Mike Pence joined in 2021. They were instrumental in staffing the Trump administration and directing his policies, with at least 66 Heritage Foundation employees and alumni given positions in the administration.

From the article:

Most people aren’t aware of Project 2025, or its playbook, “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise”—but you need to be. In stark terms, Project 2025 reveals the conservatives’ plan to enact a sweeping “Don’t Say Gay” policy that will effectively blot out all LGBTQ content on the internet as well as any published material with LGBTQ content, no matter how benign.

Project 2025 is a coalition of prominent conservative organizations that includes the Claremont Institute, Alliance Defending Freedom, Family Research Council, Hillsdale College, Heritage Foundation, Freedom Works, American Legislative Exchange Council, American Principles Project, and dozens of others. The organization’s goal is to lay out a “first 180 days” agenda for the next administration, and to recruit conservatives to fill positions within the federal government appointed by the executive branch.

The Heritage Foundation alone is a massive, well-connected think tank with an annual budget of $38 million. Mike Pence joined in 2021. They were instrumental in staffing the Trump administration and directing his policies, with at least 66 Heritage Foundation employees and alumni given positions in the administration.

This is not a fringe effort.

Hexbear got hit by the same DDoS

1. hexbear got hit by the same DDoS
2. virtually all of the hexbear comments about the defed are light-hearted jokes

can I ask who the kid is? is there a post about this somewhere?

I'm heading out to meet friends, and I also feel like I'm talking to a brick wall. Take care.