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Extremely unlikely. Trials get rescheduled all the time, it’s absolutely routine.
Extremely unlikely. Trials get rescheduled all the time, it’s absolutely routine.
Not the only thing being organized. There’s obviously a difficult tension here between taking the time to organize stuff properly, and not waiting so long that Trump and his cronies have time to consolidate power.
While there seems to be some disagreement as to what happens on the 17th, it does seem to have been largely settled on as the first of multiple days of action. If nothing else, getting in contact with a group like this means you’re in communication with the people who are trying to do something.
Don’t trust anything you see on Bing. Got it.
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They won’t, because loot boxes are their main source of income.
And this is exactly why “good companies” like Valve cannot save us. Good companies will never be a substitute for good regulations.
That’s a damned if you do, damned if you don’t kind of standard.
The situation is, when assessed honestly, really fucking bad. If they present it as being better than it is, they’re sugar coating the reality. If they present it as bad as it is then according to you they’re spreading doom and gloom. How are they supposed to win this?
It can easily be both.
The problem is that these criticisms of the Dems do matter. Fascism doesn’t grow in a vacuum. Treating the Democrats as an outright enemy is idiotic, but it’s not at all idiotic to point out that they’ve created the conditions for this swing to the hard right.
In 2020 I predicted that a Biden victory would guarantee the Republicans win in 2024. I knew then that he would be a one term president, because he’s exactly the kind of hide-bound, corporate friendly Democrat that fascists love. In actuality Biden was far better than I expected; while his legislative agenda was incredibly reserved, he used the justice department and the machinery of the federal government to achieve a lot of big progressive goals. And he was in reality a hell of a lot less corporate friendly than I expected.
But, exactly as I suspected, his goals were still far too reserved, his actions designed to pay off much too far in the future and the result was that at a time when people were struggling with a skyrocketing cost of living, Biden’s government was trumpeting “economic accomplishments” that in no way translated to the average person having more money in their pocket. People aren’t so stupid that they can’t figure out how poor they are. Progressive policies have to actually achieve progressive goals to be popular, and billionaires getting richer while everyone else gets poorer is the opposite of that.
Biden would have been a great president in the nineties. But it’s too late for his quiet, dignified approach to politics. They’ve run out the clock. We hit “France five days before the revolution” levels of wealth inequality a while ago, and the average person is ready to burn everything down on the 0.001% chance that something better might emerge.
You can’t resist fascism with quiet, dignified centrism. Weimar Germany tried that. Look where it got them.
You resist fascism by solving the underlying problems that make fascism appealling. This is true one on one when dealing with individual converts (there are some great studies and practical examples on this, showing how the best way to peel people off of fascist movements is to help them resolve the problems in their personal lives) and its equally true at the mass scale. Fascism feeds on the feeling that traditional governance is failing the masses. Mussolini got elected on promises to solve the political gridlock that was preventing the government from doing anything useful. Hitler was elected because people were feeling intense economic hardship and he offered simplistic solutions. By the time Hitler and Mussolini achieved power, the second most likely outcome in either country was that the Communists took over. In Spain the hard left actively fought a war against the fascists for control of the country. These are not conditions where the status quo can be maintained, and anyone whose overriding objective is to wholly or largely to maintain the status quo is ultimately creating the conditions where fascism grows best.
The Dems are not evil in the way that the GOP are evil, and they are inherently preferable to the GOP as a result, but as they are now they cannot - not will not, cannot - save the country from fascism. Instead they have inadvertently enabled it by being unable to take the kind of radical action necessary to prevent its growth.
Well, it is and it isn’t. The filibuster is a rule of senate procedure, not a law. The party in control of the senate can remove that rule if they wish.
I do agree that a lot of progressives will unnecessarily leap from valid criticism of the Dems to claiming - in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary - that they’re literally as bad as the GOP. A party of some progress is manifestly and obviously better than a party that wants to undo progress.
But it’s also complete valid to point out that a lot of the things that supposedly prevented the Dems from achieving more progress were norms, not hard rules. Biden could have rebalanced the supreme court by simply adding more members. The Dems could have thrown out the filibuster. There were options that were on the table that the Dems refused to use because they think they’re playing a polite game of chess, while their opponent just showed up and slapped a gun down on the table. I despise the GOP with every fibre of my being, but at least they understand the stakes.
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Waiting for the organized resistance that ticks off every single one of your personal requirements is a really great way to sit on your ass doing nothing.