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   Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 22:56:00 JST Cory Doctorow

   If there's anything that illustrated the hollowness of the Democratic Party as an effective opposition for me, it's this.

   Yesterday, I watched a video of a sitting US Senator being thrown to the ground and cuffed by fed goons for asking questions of the fed official he has direct oversight authority over.

   Within minutes, I'd gotten DOZENS of texts from Dems and Dem orgs asking for $5-$50 to "fight fascism."

   That's it. "Are you terrified that your country is slipping into fascism? Pay me."

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     Kim Scheinberg (kims@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jun-2025 01:18:09 JST Kim Scheinberg

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     @pluralistic
     The texts were offensive

     That 40% of the senate Dems went and voted for Trump's Grypto bill after was infuriating

     Primary every single fucking one of them

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     freeluna (billclawson@sfba.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jun-2025 05:55:37 JST freeluna

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     @pluralistic I really fucking hate the DNC and ActBlue for this very reason. I’ve donate to the democrats and will do so again, but the consequence of even once donating to the democrats is to be constantly barraged by their bullshit in texts and emails, and it pisses me off to no end.

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     Angus McIntyre (angusm@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jun-2025 13:40:17 JST Angus McIntyre

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     • freeluna

     @billclawson @pluralistic Essentially, political power in the US is now divided between a repressive death cult and a fundraising business, and the reason that the death cult keeps winning is because at least you can get people excited about joining a death cult.