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  • They will probably at least slow themselves down at minimum, though and that will matter. Their majority is already narrow and there are good odds of cutting into that majority further or potentially even flipping the house if we're very lucky. They had house speakership fights for a while in 2022 with a narrow majority

    They are already having some signs of potential infighting in the senate where some Republicans are trying to claim McConnell is holding a "coup" against trump by having earlier senate leader elections (McConnel is not running for senate majority leader so it's a bit more competitive)

  • Network effects matter a lot for social media. You need people on a platform for people to use it

    Every erosion of a platform's users will matter. Platforms often die by a thoudand cuts. It doesn't have to be a single death blow

  • At the federal level, drag out everything and block everything you can. Their margins in the house, should it be called in their favor, will be extremely narrow. Let them in fight and flame against each other. Use every procedural rule to slow stuff down. Filibuster everything. Even if a specific issue is a losing fight, make them have to fight it so they cannot move on to something else. Republicans have used these tricks to block progress for a long time, time to flip it back on them

    At the state level, we can much have more room to push back. A lot of what they are likely to pull is pushing things back into the states. Codify everything at state levels. Ensrhine our rights into state constitutions. A lot of federal operations rely on state government cooperating behind the scenes. Without it, a lot more can be slowed way down or made much more difficult

    Outside the government, we still have power as individuals. Organize unions, protests, etc

  • Most people actually voted in favor of the florida abortion ammendment. The threshold is just unusually higher (60%) than most states. It was close to 60% but just a little shy at around 57%

    With a different national environment with just a bit higher dem turnout, it probably would've passed

  • Ah I looked a bit earlier with less vote percentage reporting. Guess the outstanding vote was in more republican areas than I had thought. Regardless, the rest of my point still stands even if the vote share is about the same this election

  • He still lost vote shared had just about the same vote share compared to the previous election. It's just that dems didn't show up as much. If his tariff plans go into effect, his support will almost certainly drop a fair amount more. A good chunk of people supported him because they thought he'd magically fix everything economically. Destroying the economy will turn people against him or at least not make them so actively support him

    Tens of millions did not vote for this. If they want to take away rights, make every one a fight. Every thing that they have to spend time on keeps them from moving on to the next thing

  • Grief is natural, but we cannot give up the fight. Tens of millions did not vote for this. If they want to take away rights, make every one a fight

    Everything we fight is time they cannot spend moving on to the next thing. Drag every fight out even if it's something seemingly minor. Give them no ground

    The more resistance they see, the weaker they become

  • Don't give in to the despair that want to have. An authoritarian's greatest power lies less in their direct power and more in the hopelessness and culture of fear they want you to have. Self censorship is usually far stronger than direct censorship

    They want you to never fight in any way, because you might reveal them to be weaker than you thought

    Even if you are fighting a losing fight on a single issue, make it a fight! Everything you can drag out is time they can't spend making something else worse

  • Start at the local level and build up. It's a lot easier to have strong progressives run in races that might not really be all that contested in the first place. And make even small primaries count

    That kind of power starts to add up. The local politicians tend to flow up the party. Obama first rose from the Illinois state senate. Tim Walz first rose from an unexpected flip in a deep red house district in Minnesota

    Power doesn't always flow top down. It also flow from the bottom up

  • Understand that when your goal is blocking things, you somstimes do things you know will almost certainly fail. Republicans have used this playbook for ages to block the Democratic party

    Make them get tied up in as many pointless tasks to distract them from their other goals. Sometimes you'll even occasionally win a long shot challange

  • In fairness, the group talking about this (Run for something) has existed since 2017 and elected about a thousand progressives in local and state government. They haven't been idle before this, just seems like there's more people interested now

    We need everyone we can get now to fight back. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is today

  • They already killed it for Supreme Court nominees when it suited them. If they really wanted something they'd kill it for that

    By 2017, roles had reversed — Republicans held the majority in the Senate, and President Donald Trump sat in the Oval Office.

    After Senate Democrats, now in the minority, filibustered the confirmation of Judge Neil Gorsuch — Trump's first nominee to the Supreme Court — McConnell engineered his own "nuclear option."

    The Republican-controlled Senate voted 52-48 to reduce the vote threshold for confirming nominees to the Supreme Court from 60 to 51, per The New York Times.

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/10/01/fact-check-gop-ended-senate-filibuster-supreme-court-nominees/3573369001/

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    They're Usually Shredded Alive Rule :(

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    S.4562 Introduced to Senate - If passed would prevent the frighteningly common practice of intentionally feeding manure to farm animals

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    Company fined for dumping 'chicken sludge' in northeast Georgia creek (but residents say it's continued after the fine)

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    Quotes from slaughterhouse workers are hard to read rule

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    Transgender Athletes Could Be At A Physical Disadvantage, New Research Shows

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    Anyone know why there seems to be an uptick in transphobia on lemmy.world? Rule

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    Global beef production to contract

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    Lynn Conway was an icon rule

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    The "one bad apple" claims always ignore the many many many bad apples that exist

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    And Somehow Those Actually Turn Into Laws Rule

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    A Tyson Exec Wrote Kentucky’s Ag-Gag Law. What Could Go Wrong?

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    Human-like intelligence in animals is far more common than we thought

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    Most Irish people underestimate the link between eating red meat and climate change

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    Most Irish people underestimate the link between eating red meat and climate change

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    Huge amounts of bird-flu virus found in raw milk of infected cows