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Getting strong RE4 vibes

It's possible that you're right. It's also possible that people would follow those groups to Mastodon.

It's very possible that people would follow AOC to Mastodon as well. There's no reason she can't post on Mastodon as well and see how it goes.

Do we really want to mandate jail time though? It seems like maybe fines would be effective? I'm not in favor of inventing more ways to fill up for-profit prisons with non-violent offenders.

Unprofessional conduct alert indeed... It's like he was putting up a trigger warning for his own post

Possibly? Could correspond with increased digital surveillance. Most people understand that nothing is private anymore.

Even Bank of America doesn't support MFA apps.

The US Postal Service should get in on this action.

Sounds like their leadership team could use a few adjustments.

A general strike? Protests? Before this election I would have agreed with you. Now... half or more of the workers you'd need to pull that off voted for Trump.

A general strike right now would basically just be leftists self-blacklisting themselves and doing the fascists work for them.

If there's anything this election has shown, it's that there's no unity on the left. Who are we organizing with since it's clear that the cultists are a lost cause and the left can't be relied on to show up when it matters most?

The left couldn't be bothered to vote but you think they're going to riot?

It would have maybe been mobilizing if the election was closer, or if the Dems at least won the popular vote by 5 million again... but this defeat was thorough enough to absolutely crush the morale of anyone who leans even a little bit left. Why should I waste my time and money supporting progressive policies when some people won't even do the bare minimum to prevent Republicans from establishing a stranglehold on our government and institutions?

If the accelerationists thought that sitting out and handing the election to Trump was going to mobilize the left I'm afraid they're going to be disappointed. You say there's still time, but is there? I used to think the "Trump is a fascist" rhetoric was hyperbole until J6 happened, now the proof is on video. Just engaging with these posts on a leftist site could be getting me onto a McCarthy-style blacklist that would prevent me from getting a job.

There's also a chance that the DNC still won't get the message and we will do it all again in 2026, 2028, and so on. I guess beatings will continue until morale improves.

I was a naysayer in 2020, I thought the DNC was repeating the mistakes of 2016 by putting up a moderate but I was wrong.

I was practically giddy when I heard that the FTC was finally going after these corporations.

I was thinking that there's no way they can blame the Dems for what happens in the next two years, but I'm guessing the post-reality anti-facts crew will find a way.

I didn't realize a wealth tax, 25k credit for first time home buyers, support for legalized cannabis, support for trans people, etc were Republican policies.

Are there more things on my progressive checklist? Yes, definitely. Universal healthcare, for one.

Part of being an adult is not being able to get everything you want when you want it.

Part of politics in the US is understanding that some of those things that Harris supported which resulted in a candidate that was not far left enough to get progressives off the couch, are too far left for other voters.

I don't envy whoever is picking up the pieces at the DNC and trying to determine what the precise amount of leftism is that will get those 10-15 million leftists off the couch without alienating the 60-70 million that did show up.

This is especially true for the Palestine issue. How many of those 10-15 million watching from the sidelines would have shown up for a pro-Palestine candidate? Even if it was 10 million, there would still have been more who would sit this one out or vote Trump, because they'd believe the bullshit that the Palestinians are all terrorists. I truly wish it wasn't the case, but I fear the post-911 Islamophobia and the imperialist attitudes about support for Israel would have cost a pro-Palestine candidate more votes than they would have gained.