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   Christina Warren (film_girl@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2024 02:31:47 JST Christina Warren

   Once again: we’re allowed to be fucking heartbroken and angry. I’m not saying that we can be mad forever. I’m saying we’re allowed to be angry and sad today. All this “now it’s time to work” bullshit is just that. Bullshit. People are allowed to feel what they feel. And be fucking honest: the work wasn’t enough this time. At all. At all.

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     Robert Link (phaedral@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2024 02:31:47 JST Robert Link

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     @film_girl Goes both ways. If my coping mechanism is to offer warmth and reassurance and try to close ranks and build together, that's surely might as much as it's your right to wail and gnash your teeth.

     The work is never enough, it was not enough before we got here and it will not be enough when we are gone, but we do it anyway. Sometimes we do it undismayed, sometimes we do it with our eyes streaming tears. But we don't quit.

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     Christina Warren (film_girl@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2024 02:41:00 JST Christina Warren

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     • Robert Link

     @phaedral maybe we need to be better and smarter about how we work tho. Because this hasn’t worked. I’m not saying we need to do the autopsy now. I can’t event contemplate it at this point. But we have to reassess our tactics and our leaders if we ever want the work to produce positive results. And that starts by acknowledging that we lost. We lost. And there is no sugar-coating that. Our work was not good enough. Our work was rejected.

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     Robert Link (phaedral@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2024 02:48:25 JST Robert Link

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     @film_girl Totally need to be better and smarter! No question! And I totally get the need to rage. My rage is only thinly veiled and barely held in. We lost, big, stupid-big. I am very much on the same page with you.

     I've been asking myself, how does someone like me connect with someone in one of those sparsely populated red states that gave Trump so much of the electoral college? How does someone like me counter the targeted efforts to pit such folks against folks like me?

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     Robert Link (phaedral@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2024 02:49:40 JST Robert Link

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     • Extinction Studies

     @aka_quant_noir "corporate media" is a big part of this. In the end I see the triumph of reality tv as the truly biggest factor. That's an oversimplification, but it's the broad stroke of my thought.

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     Extinction Studies (aka_quant_noir@hcommons.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2024 02:49:41 JST Extinction Studies

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     • Robert Link

     @film_girl @phaedral
     Our work was not sufficiently helpful for the voters we knew needed to vote, and wasn't even relevant to the folks watching corporate media.

     And the Dems didn't reach the pain that corporate America and it's subsidies continues to inflict.