@Jackiemauro @mekkaokereke Some of that is also structural. The American political system does not reward movements with broad support as readily as it does small but welll-focused hyper-partisan ones.
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klausfiend (klausfiend@dcerberus.com)'s status on Sunday, 26-May-2024 12:44:13 JST klausfiend
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klausfiend (klausfiend@dcerberus.com)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 21:36:56 JST klausfiend
@asymco SUVs globally produce more CO2 emissions than entire countries.
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klausfiend (klausfiend@dcerberus.com)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jan-2024 04:52:57 JST klausfiend
@lauren @gme It's a combination of those two things and an unrequited desire by management types for more control of employee time. No decent rationale otherwise.
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klausfiend (klausfiend@dcerberus.com)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 22:59:40 JST klausfiend
@misc @mekkaokereke @georgeeyong The _most_ support any fascist politician has ever gotten in a free and fair election is something like 34%. Fascism is ultimately an unpopular organizing principle, and requires violence and intimidation to usurp power.
As violence is integral to the fascist calculus, they _do_ respect strength in numbers, but if you have numbers and refuse to be intimidated, their ability to project force is greatly diminished.
Deep down, most of them are just bullies.
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klausfiend (klausfiend@dcerberus.com)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 22:59:39 JST klausfiend
@misc @mekkaokereke @georgeeyong That said, it's also no less important important to be mindful of just how fast fascists move on their murderous impulses when they do end up in power:
Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor in January 30, 1933, and the first SS concentration camp (Dachau, outside Munich) was operational by the end of March, 1933.
Do not take chances with these people, they WILL kill you if you give them even half an opportunity to get away with it.
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klausfiend (klausfiend@dcerberus.com)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2024 21:21:52 JST klausfiend
@robpike I'm assuming this is at least peripherally related to your appearance on Letterman as an assistant to P&T? As a longtime fan, well played.
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klausfiend (klausfiend@dcerberus.com)'s status on Sunday, 17-Sep-2023 03:43:45 JST klausfiend
@mekkaokereke forgive my ignorance, but what are the 3Ps of trust and safety?
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klausfiend (klausfiend@dcerberus.com)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 21:04:56 JST klausfiend
@mekkaokereke The existence of trans folk with fascist leanings blows my mind. Trans people were some of the very first victims of the Nazis, and fascism is explicitly pro-natalist and heteronormative -- anyone outside that paradigm is dancing with death (and likely, a bad death at that.)
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klausfiend (klausfiend@dcerberus.com)'s status on Saturday, 27-May-2023 23:24:43 JST klausfiend
@springdiesel @sofiav @mekkaokereke @longobord ugh, this is the story of way too many "smart" kids: breeze through stuff that's believed to be hard, then get frustrated and burn out on stuff that actually challenges you because it turns out you were never given the tools to deal with that.
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klausfiend (klausfiend@dcerberus.com)'s status on Sunday, 26-Mar-2023 22:13:19 JST klausfiend
@rbreich The worst part is that this kind of rent-seeking fits seamlessly with "COVID was a manufactured crisis" narratives that dishonest people use to mislead the credulous, and Big Pharma is too arrogant to consider that in so doing, it's sowing the seeds of its own destruction.