One of the likely paths that concern me is a cycle where more extreme and brutal acts by the administration results in more protests which result in more extreme and brutal suppression AND more right-wing private-but-endorsed violence, in a feedback loop.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3laor4eaolc2s
"all those other platforms, the ones where I unwisely allowed myself to get locked in, where today I find myself trapped by the professional, personal and political costs of leaving them, they were all started by people who swore they'd never sell out."
@samcarter @ChuckMcManis I just wrote a simple one in postscript.
@violetblue Wondderful!
@Free_Press But, are tradionally Republican farmers sufficiently alarmed so as to NOT vote Republican in the election?
@realTuckFrumper Working as intended.
Citizenship cannot save you from fascism https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/citizenship-fascism/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
This is rather sure sign that our faith in a President following the laws is not grounded in reality.
TFG will violate every law, and his people will as well. They have learned they are largely immune, protected by potential pardons and commutations, and that any action by courts will be at least years away. And SCOTUS added to the mess by making the President a King with royal immunity.
Protip:
When designing a user interface, imagine some old woman using it, say Margaret Hamilton, and she's clicking your app's buttons and saying to you, as old people do,
"Young whippersnapper, when I was your age, I sent 24 people to the ACTUAL MOON with my software in 4K of RAM and here I am clicking your button and it takes ten seconds to load a 50 megabyte video ad and then it crashes
I'm not even ANGRY with you, I'm just disappointed."
What kind of a world do we live in where ballot boxes have to have internal fire suppressant?
https://floss.social/@downey/113387281091862923