Thanks for sharing, I didn’t know about him. For anyone else reading this look up the Coal Wars and the Homestead Strike.

Labor has always had to kill, die, and fight against Capital for the rights we have today. They don’t really teach these things in school (I think I learned about the Pinkertons in AP US History) because it would give Labor too much cultural power, but it’s crucial for US citizens (and anyone really) to understand what it has taken to get to where we are.

as long as they see more lgbtq and brown people getting it first, then they’ll have “won” in their minds

Sounds like it’s they want another fight akin to the 19th and early 20th centuries…

“Empathy is a sin”

Do you honestly think Trump is gonna “go down”? How would you envision that? I’m worried he’s going to Kissinger it and live for another 15 years.

I’m so looking forward to see this sniveling coward arrested and locked up (or worse) when this regime falls down.

Yes I know that’ll probably not happen that way but it gives me something to look forward to. Like solarpunk ideas, it gives me something to fight for rather than just something to fight against.

I care about his health and it’s heartbreaking that he doesn’t have a choice or know how much his mom is a sociopathic piece of shit.

OTHER

I think you meant “brown”

Get fucked Rachel. I hope you feel every possible pain that you voted for.

Lemmy wouldn’t let me edit my comment so adding a new one:

Also never acquiesce or give in without resistance. Always resist. They want you too paralyzed, terrified, and demoralized to do anything and want you to have anticipatory obedience. They want you to think since you’re just one person you can’t do anything so why bother. Do not give these fucks one inch. Always resist and don’t comply ahead of time.

There are a million ways you can research because you have the internet.

Off the top of my head: organize locally (and online, though online is more risky for infiltration), attend protests, fund groups in resistance lawsuits (ACLU, NRDC for climate stuff, etc.), join mutual aid networks, constantly call your local congressperson and attend town halls. Educate yourself and share truth when confronted with mis/disinformation in your own real life, get others you know to involved and help them understand the predicament we’re in, rather than what they see on Fox or Newsmax or Tiktok.

Then there are the more extreme things that I wouldn’t condone such as providing the implicit threat of violence to back up whatever the peaceful protests are advocating. The Far Right in America has done that part very well in the past 15 years.

No we’re not screwed. Yes the fascists are trying to solidify their tenuous hold but we will push back even harder and make their lives hell in every possible way, and fight to get back our representation as a whole. Stop with this defeatist bullshit and do something.

We sure are sounding a lot like the US in the late 1840s and early 1850s, in this context. Also we’re sounding like Europe in the 1920s and 30s.

None of the above, but not going to blindly believe anything I read on a random blog on the internet though. Please have a little more logic/skepticism than MAGA at least. Follow ETA or SMART for more reasonable analyses, but still take those with a big grain of salt, because they could also just be grifters out for donations (or they could be legit).

Nice! You’re still too angry though

He’s just another slimy corporatist owned by the ultra wealthy, but throws a bone to the social issues of Democrats. Pretty much the same strategy that modern Democrats have had for the past 40+ years. I will absolutely vote for him in the general or support him in pushing against Trump/Repulicans, but he’s one of my least favorite Democrats now.

NOBODY.

…yeah I know just let me have something

No. He should do what he can to push out and fight against this current regime, but nobody likes him or wants him as a president. Nobody.

haha ok, you should go outside for a bit and take a walk probably

lol you have no idea who you’re talking to. I think we should do some recounts because there are some odd anomalies, as I said about ETA. However, this substack post is very lacking in actual evidence other than “trust me bro”.