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Authoritarians like Trump love fear, defeatism, surrender. Do not give them what they want
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Same tired speech we got in 2016.
Guess what, we fought, we organized, we donated, we voted.
Now you went and fucked it all up again while we fought, we organized, we donated, we voted.
And 15 million of you, including statistically a lot of Democrats and progressives, didn't do fuck all. For reasons unknown but I'm guessing petulance, economic anxiety, misogyny, supporting genocide, not supporting genocide. You all know the stakes, you didn't have our backs, you let the nightmare happen.
Now your coming back like nothing happened and tell us once again, we need you to keep fighting, need to organize, need to donate, need to vote?
No. I'm done. You all are on your own to fix your own bed. I'm tired of wasting my time and money on both Democrats who refuse to change and keep trying to be diet Republican and and progressives that throws tantrums and won't work the long game.
Get your shit in order on your own and count me out.
I feel the same way. Everyone has this blind belief that courts and laws are going to mean something to a group of people that laws don't apply to. Nothing is being dragged out or tied up except our bodies.
Yeah, the trust that the courts that are overwhelmingly now and going to be worse, MAGA controlled is bat shit insane. I mean it's sad that they haven't paid attention to everything they've done since Trump's days with the courts.
Yeah, hunker down, survive, get a backup plan and let America sort itself out whatever that may look like.