• @Carmakazi
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    I know we’re all itching for some good news but this is just a Twitter spat, hardly an AlL OuT cIviL wAr.

    I’ll believe it when they start tangibly sabotaging each other. They have a tendency to fall in line in practice.

    • @Jackcooper
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      For real. There was an all out civil war in America, it happened in the 1860s.

    • LeadersAtWork
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      They fall in line when they have a common, reachable enemy. As another user recently said, which I believe was wise. - paraphrased: The only reason they’re fighting is because we haven’t made ourselves a target.

      • DankOfAmerica
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        MAGA doesn’t want to promote of accomplish a stardard political goal like most other political parties. MAGA just wants to win. Once they’ve won and defeated their enemy, they need to find a new one. First, it was Obama, then Biden, Harris, immigrants, BLM, infectious disease experts, southern immigrants, and on and on…But they don’t really believe their platform. It’s unstable and lacks internal consistency because they say whatever to win. Once they beat their enemy, they have no goal. It all falls apart. I think the smart strategy for the next 2 years is for Democrats to stay out of the news, out of social media, and irrelevant. Let MAGA go at each other.

      • @Carrolade
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        111 day ago

        Let’s not ignore that there’s a real, policy-based disagreement here. Tech companies like to be able to import top talent from wherever they can get it (and are generally correct that this is overall beneficial), while white nationalists are dead set against the idea, as it strikes directly against the very core of their values.

        It’s a legit disagreement, and pretty foundational.

        That said, I do overall agree that we’re kinda beaten at the moment, and too busy licking our wounds and regrouping to care that much about this.

      • finley
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        111 day ago

        I think that mindset is dangerously misleading. We are all still targets, it’s just that these people are currently so distracted by their greed forpower and money that their cohorts are just bigger targets.

        They didn’t forget about wanting to hurt and or kill all of us in order to achieve their goals. They’re just focused on something else at the moment. And that is not going to last.

        • LeadersAtWork
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          It isn’t that we aren’t targets, only that we aren’t currently making ourselves immediately targetable. That said, we do need to brush off our fairly minor defeatism and deal immediately with the slowly encroaching apathy. Yes, the cult idiots will get theirs as they will be a majority negatively impacted moving forward, however we do need to collectively step up constantly.

          I truly believe we can make it the two years necessary to set in a rather sizable doorstop. We just need to work together on attainable goals.

    • Flying SquidOP
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      Lara Loomer losing her checkmark on Twitter is a bigger deal than you think it is.

      • skulblaka
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        Just buy a new one what’s the big deal, anybody can buy those now

        • @[email protected]
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          No you see, Elon is a “Free Speech absolutest.” Which is supposed to mean MAGA can say what they want. I believe Elon just canceled her. Does MAGA finally realize that these Oligarch billionaires are going to use Trump to fuck the whole country sideways for personal gain…? No because they are apparently blind and stupid.

          At the very least its fun to watch Loomer’s face getting eaten.

          Fuck Elon also. Looking forward to seeing how the karma plays out. 🍿

        • finley
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          21 day ago

          Only if you can shovel tons of cocaine into her, like shoveling coal into a locomotive steam engine.

    • @dhork
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      Remember how the old Soviet Union had leadership which was very opaque, and there were a whole class of “Kremlinologists” who would figure out who was in favor by how closely they were standing to the Soviet Premier in photographs of public events?

      This is similar, we can figure out who is close to our new Prime Minister by how he treats them on Twitter. “X-ologists”? It’s dumb, but so is everything in this timeline.

    • finley
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      21 day ago

      For a delusional dementia patient that rules by Twitter declarations, it obviously has much more meaning than you’re giving.

      It should be the crazy, ridiculous nonsense. You see it as, and it is crazy ridiculous nonsense. Sadly, that doesn’t make it any less real.