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   wet forest moon folklorist (seachanger@alaskan.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 09:46:18 JST wet forest moon folklorist

   feeling nihilistic is a normal response to the reality of trump taking control of the US, but its not an endpoint (no feelings are). remaining politically nihilist going forward takes intellectual effort, you have to actively convince yourself and others that - in the face of much evidence to the contrary - there is no point in trying to change anything for the better. and at that point you may as well put that exact same amount of effort into literally anything else

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     wet forest moon folklorist (seachanger@alaskan.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 09:46:17 JST wet forest moon folklorist

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     i read a short Holocaust memoir in which the survivor remembered how they always thought they'd reached rock bottom, but then it would get worse. that false sense of nowhere left to fall leaves you unprepared for what's next.

     so for those of you dooming out & saying we lost, its hopeless, i mean, be careful what you wish for. very possible we could look back at this moment 8-10 years from now and realize how much freedom we actually had to change things

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     wet forest moon folklorist (seachanger@alaskan.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 10:15:18 JST wet forest moon folklorist

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     look at how Trump took power. he is completely hostile to the GOP establishment but he did not start his own party. the Tea Party was a movement but not a 3rd party. they used the GOP as a trojan horse. they blew a path through and took the reins. they understood the system, they used it in their favor, and they remade the institution, bringing generational energy and a national political realignment with them.

     if they tried to do that via 3rd party they would be handing elections to the Dems

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     wet forest moon folklorist (seachanger@alaskan.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 10:15:19 JST wet forest moon folklorist

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     i've read many takes and written a few myself this week. today i think we need to get aggressive about hijacking the democratic party itself. in many places, it's a nothing burger so empty you can walk right in and make it your own. i wish RCV had had a big night last week but it got routed. we may have even LOST our new RCV here in Alaska. so the path to stop Trump is still locked up within the Dems. we just have to also be organizing in fierce coalitions outside of the Dems too

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