100% of the space crime you know about

… but yeah, good for the astronaut, but also sad for the memes.

Right? Obi Wan is nothing like the Clintons!

And here I thought the color “Estrogen” would be the same color blue as the little pills

gross.

Right? I thought it was a sort of self-defence against being swindled, lied to, or otherwise taken advantage of by malicious thought patterns.

Trying to use reason to communicate - especially with others who don’t share your commitment to reason - is insane.

direct action and electoral politics are fundamentally different

I disagree. Are there plenty of people who vote who don’t understand direct action? Sure. But I can’t imagine anyone who really understands direct action isn’t bothering to vote when given a chance to.

I don’t know why this gives leftists so much trouble when the fucking fascists seem to understand it intuitively. Does anyone think the Proud Boys don’t vote? Politics and activism are all pretty seamless to conservatives, don’t see why we can’t seem to grasp it.

What will happen if/when they lose their majority in the midterms? …they’ll launch their coup

Case in point. You have no problems imagining a world in which Republicans are running for office on Tuesday and then planning a coup on Wednesday. Why is it so implausible that we embrace a diversity of tactics to achieve our goals?

the work to make sure such resistance exists starts now

Absolutely. And you can go to the firing range on Monday and then to the ballot box on Tuesday and then plant a community garden Wednesday. Resistance is 90% organization anyways, so if you’re getting to know your neighbors and building a network of people you trust then you’re already most of the way there. If you’re already emphasizing a diversity of tactics then there really is no contradiction in supporting an electoral candidate with one hand and creating an armed resistance with the other.

With this congress? or really any congress under our corrupt system? probably not.

Ideology is malleable. People aren’t nearly as “axiomatically opposed” to anything as you think they are.

If your organization is already taking direct action (protests, strikes, sit ins, peaceful civil disobedience) then your tactics will naturally escalate as the government becomes more authoritarian. If you pitch extreme tactics now, though, the only people who will join will be the craziest.

You can only make them while they’re vulnerable

They won’t abolish elections all at once. Their strategy for the midterms - or at least what it seems to be - is voter suppression and gerrymandering. Those are powerful tools, don’t get me wrong, but not so powerful that they’re invincible.

Obviously it would have been better to already be organized, but failing that, the best time to organize is now.

Thanks for the good work! Education is important!

Technically the guy who discovered it named it Alumium.

The best time to plant a tree…

Organizing is organizing. If you have enough people in your corner to win an election, you have enough people to blow up a bridge.

Or has everyone forgotten why we hold elections in the first place? Voting is a proxy for fighting. If they won’t hold a fair election, make them. Remind the oligarchs why we have elections in the first place.

Mamdani won. He seems like the real deal, too.

If he can do it, we can too. We’ll build a whole new party if we have to, but we’ll get people in office who will actually fight for us.

Interesting that Dems were putting up a fight until Mandani won in NY. If the shutdown is fueling voters to elect actual progressives, then suddenly Dems have to cave.

USian here, please keep speaking truth. We deserve a real left, but for that to happen people need to wake up

So we remind them. Preferably by fielding candidates that will actually fight for us, and aren’t afraid to point that fact out. Loudly.

Building up a real base of support takes time. As in, 4-5 years worth of time. Might as well get started while people are pissed.

Oh, there are ways to replace Justices all right.

I doubt I’d be allowed to say them out loud, but they exist.

Vote them out. End their careers, every last one of them.

Maybe they’re starting to realize what a bad look all of this is.

Too bad it’s too little too late, they won’t be respected by anyone for a long time.

It just means it’s legal for them to measure your speed and ticket you from an aircraft. If the sign wasn’t there they (presumably) wouldn’t be allowed to measure your speed in that way.

well you didn’t explicitly say you were checking this tile

Yep, that sucks. But tracking time is still good for gameplay