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Wait is the party that literally did away with democracy during their primary process suggesting that Trump is the one trying to kill democracy again?

Surely they can’t be that stupid
 
57Brave said:
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How much difference will the No Kings Day protests, even as big as they were, make in the face of the administration’s attempt to get rid of our democratic political system and replace it with authoritarianism? What good is an inflatable frog against federal agents?

Scholar of social movements Lisa Corrigan noted that large, fun marches full of art and music expand connections and make people more willing to take risks against growing state power. They build larger communities by creating new images that bring together recognizable images from the past in new ways, helping more people see themselves in such an opposition. The community and good feelings those gatherings develop help carry opposition through hard moments. Corrigan notes, too, that yesterday “every single rally (including in the small towns) was bigger than the surrounding police force available. That kind of image event is VERY IMPORTANT if you’re…demonstrating social coherence AGAINST a fascist government and its makeshift gestapo.”

Such rallies “bring together multigenerational groups and the playfulness can help create enthusiasm for big tent politics against the monoculture of fascism,” Corrigan writes. “The frogs (and unicorns and dinosaurs) will be defining ideographs of this period of struggle.”

— HRC
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Multi generation groups?

Who is that again based on the composition of the rallys?
 
Tapate50 said:
Wait is the party that literally did away with democracy during their primary process suggesting that Trump is the one trying to kill democracy again?

Surely they can’t be that stupid
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It’s just Heather Richardson Cox nailing the moment once again. See her musings on (R) using “cheap fakes” to make Biden look infirm in the days prior to the Trump-Biden debate, or her insistence that the Charlie Kirk killer was right wing, and you’ll know what you’re dealing with.
 
acesfull86 said:
It’s just Heather Richardson Cox nailing the moment once again. See her musings on (R) using “cheap fakes” to make Biden look infirm in the days prior to the Trump-Biden debate, or her insistence that the Charlie Kirk killer was right wing, and you’ll know what you’re dealing with.
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I knew.

It’s more fun to play it out.
 
acesfull86 said:
It’s just Heather Richardson Cox nailing the moment once again. See her musings on (R) using “cheap fakes” to make Biden look infirm in the days prior to the Trump-Biden debate, or her insistence that the Charlie Kirk killer was right wing, and you’ll know what you’re dealing with.
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But she’s a respected university professor!
 
Yesterday, here in Chicago, where I am today, America caught a glimpse of its possible future, and it was terrifying. Federal agents, dressed like soldiers and armed with the weapons of war, rammed a civilian vehicle on 105th Street, using a maneuver outlawed by Chicago police, and then fired tear gas into a crowd of bystanders and local officers.

The air filled with smoke and screams as parents fled with babies in their arms, teenagers were slammed to the pavement, and a young girl was struck in the head by a gas canister. One boy was detained for hours, denied his rights, his family left in the dark.

This was not a foreign regime or some distant “law-and-order” fantasy. It was an American city, in broad daylight, and it looked more like a militarized crackdown in a third-world dictatorship than traditional American law enforcement.



The question we have to ask is simple and chilling: Is this America that we are becoming, one where democracy dies behind clouds of tear gas?

Trump’s secret police are trying to provoke riots in the streets to justify a harsh crackdown on dissent and the Democratic Party. They’re kicking in doors and dragging screaming American citizen children into the cold night. They’re shooting priests in the head with pepperballs.

And they say it’s all to “make America great again.” Again?!? Like in 1861?

-Thom Hartman
 
mqt said:
It can’t be great for the state of the leftist movement in 2025 that one of the apparent thought leaders in the movement is someone I had to Google. I feel like I must be missing out on so many important updates about how fine I am.
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Oft quoted academic oj these boards by 57
 
mqt said:
It can’t be great for the state of the leftist movement in 2025 that one of the apparent thought leaders in the movement is someone I had to Google. I feel like I must be missing out on so many important updates about how fine I am.
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I know a history prof of a very prominent school who quotes her and sends her posts out constantly. No amount of countering her with documented facts is ever enough, the response is always something along the lines of “check your sources.” She definitely has some kind of hold among those with too much appreciation of her credentials.
 
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