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Elon Musk is the one running things.

I’m trans. How long until they decide my ID is fake and that means I’m here illegally and come to disappear me too?

Well when the choice is dying in a firefight with the gICEtapo or being tortured to death in an El Salvadoran prison…

If ICE agents showed up to arrest you and refused to present a warrant would you be legally justified in shooting them?

Look on the bright side: when the economy crashes you’ll be able to sell your car for more!

To pretend Trump is changing the game, you need to ignore how its historically been played.

Right, he’s just reviving older parts of the playbook. Very few of the things he’s done are actually new, they’re just things the US isn’t used to anymore or things that haven’t been done on a massive scale.

But it wasn’t voting that made those older practices fall out of favor, it was more direct actions: labor militancy, mass protests, and radical organizing. What your examples demonstrate is that Trump is defeatable even if he revives every authoritarian trick in the US playbook, but none of that proves voting specifically still matters.

I’ll be watching the 2026 elections to see if we can still vote our way out of this, or if we simply need to do something else.

The “voting no longer matters” crowd is going to assert that these will be landslides for heavy MAGA conservatives, I’m presuming?

Or votes being thrown out due to “fraud” or the election being cancelled or certain voters being rounded up by cops so they can’t cast ballots or any other number of ways elections can be meddled with.

And don’t be too triumphalist just because the election goes off without any problems and Democrats win, this isn’t really The Big One. The House and Senate races in 2026 will tell us what the future of elections will be.

TBF I think they’re saying liberals are only mad because Trump’s genocide is incompetent. Like, liberals aren’t mad about the actual content of the messages, they’re mad that Trump broke the law.

voter backlash

Aww, liberals still think they’re going to fix this by voting. How cute!

Tabasco always tasted like a white vinegar mixed with capsaicin.

Exactly! Delicious.

What I mean is that Republicans are going to do everything they can to stop or rig elections so they don’t have electoral consequences for Trump. Party organizing is going to need to take place outside of electoralism.

That won’t be done through voting either. Do you think Republicans are going to let themselves lose ever again?

Voting is not going to be what ends the genocide.

There was no chance to end genocide.

Pretty sure they’re gonna replace it with some privatized bullshit, which will be “worse” but also way less effective because it’ll be cost-cut to shit.

What do you think VoA even is?

Did any of Batman’s villains have characterization before the 90s? I thought they were just gimmicky villains-of-the-week.