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Or make Vance do the meetings

Yeah, although sometimes ya do gotta let off a little steam… but you are right.

Does he think

I’m going to stop you there. :)

And even the ones who are not are almost all beholden to our oligarchs and serve at their pleasure.

I’m more than happy not to charge her rent.

…that sounds creepy, but I just mean I’m glad she’s in politics fighting the progressive fight, and I support her. lol

We’ve managed some progress. As much racism is a huge issue and on the increase, overall minorities today are a bit better off. Lynchings are a bit less common; sundown cities far fewer in number. Haven’t seen segregated water fountains or anything like that in a bit. Although there’s certainly still redlining and plenty of inequality…

Women have done even better - as recently as 1974 being unable to open a bank account without husband’s signature. While there’s still plenty of inequality there as well, that situation has improved even more.

I certainly don’t want to minimize the successes, it’s just that the increases in bigotry that we’ve seen in many areas just feels worse because it felt like we were making progress, only to realize that it is truly a slog and struggle.

And sometimes what one of us thinks isn’t true.

True, although I intended there to be no pause between the directives and the start of the shooting, so I think we’re basically in agreement, or close to it. heh

I got back to 1300 alright, but not 1200. But I had a bit of an odd upbringing - our houshold library for some reason had lots of British fiction from the 1700s/1800s and so I got a jump in obscure vocabulary. heh

No, þou ſtupid idiot, he proffered his luſty hens.^[1]

This, but also it was more complicated as well: There were conservative and liberal contingencies in both parties, but after the big flip, conservatives went with or stay with Republicans, and progressives gravitated towards Democrats.

I’m 50, and I grew up after the flip, so it’s weird to think about how it must have been before. I think that’s the only reason things worked out as well as they did after WWII. Somehow we managed to push back against the racists and make some progress (Civil Rights Act, etc.) and even kinda pushed them into the racism closet for a while there. But boy howdy they exploded back out when the Tea Party took off and Obama was elected. But by that point, the Republians had already been working on attacking our democracy for a couple of decades.

The Southern Strategy was one big waterfall moment; another was when the Republicans partnered with evangelicals. I think the first big moment when partisanship really started to show its ugly head was the attack on Clinton and the attempt to impeach. Not that he didn’t abuse his office for blowjobs, but that really was not impeachable - and they didn’t get him for that, they got him on what was really a technicality. But after that, it feels like the gloves came off and partisanship was the primary tool of the Republicans.

Technically… the nazis have always been us. Hitler took huge inspiration from US politics and policies, so to see it come full circle… the call is coming from inside the house!

Worth remembering that the Republican Party isn’t the root cause. Our oligarchs corrupting our democracy is what’s broken it. And a huge part of that is our media - not only propaganda outlets like Fox, but the control by the oligarchs of almost all media is the reason Republicans always get a pass and Democrats get minimized.

And nearly a decade late even then.

Anyone who didn’t see this with the rise of the “tea party” just wasn’t paying attention or was ignorant. Maybe not about us heading toward fascism (especially so quickly), but there was an increase in nazi bullshit even then - but with the rise of the sheer public racism that RUSHED out of the closet… we knew we were fucked.

Just want to say to OP that I remember reading about the racing horse with that name so I get your username and that’s hilarioud.

PAC money is a little bit complicated to discuss just because we think of PACs being corporate, but other orgs create them like unions. Also, there are times politicians have extra and so send money to those they want to support, and so it can mean the target gets indirectly funded by money, some of which came from PACs.

That said, as far as I can tell, there are around 20-25 members of Congress (a couple in the Senate, the rest in the House) that have pledged to take no corporate PAC money - but the good news is that list is slowly growing.

We need to continue to pressure them not to take PAC money and support them ourselves since the simple fact is that it takes money to get elected (among other things).

I think this is incredibly important and basically the only non-violent way out of this fascist mess - if we can get enough in Congress who won’t take money from our oligarchs, since they (the oligarchs) are the root cause of our fascism.

By far not the worst I’ve seen. I can actually read these. The worse ones are the ones that flash up one word at a time. The highlighting sucks on these, but at least there’s 2-3 words at a time and they stay up long enough to read.

That said, the best subs are full phrases/sentences that stay up long enough to read.

Seems to me they’re still standing firm. How much territory have they lost recently? Fighting for their lives, they’re still holding on, and they’re continuing to survive with the help from the US all but cut off.

You may claim to feel bad for them, but it sure sounds like you’re like Trump - suggesting they give in to the terrorist Russians.

But a quick peek at your posting history shows you love to vocally block people. So go ahead and block me and be done with it.

Look. If you want it to scan, it’s got to be "‘ppendix’, otherwise there’s an extra syllable there. :)

NSA

Yeah, non-sexualized anal is totally better ;-)