Must admit to being a bit shocked by Americans’ inability to react to their constitutional order being destroyed. Maybe don’t go to the mall, go to work, pay taxes as normal?
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I know it’s easy to say from here (and we might get tested this way soon), but I somehow expected a society as resourceful and rich to have some sense of attachment to democracy
aug 24, 2025, 1:59 pm • 7 0 • view
This thread captures some of the horror of realizing many powerful people's attachment was, when it counted, not deep enough: bsky.app/profile/bret... Instead, those people continue to dismiss as hysterical those who called Trump a five-alarm fire from the start.
aug 24, 2025, 2:06 pm • 1 0 • view
When you get to the point where the choice of presidential candidates is between two of whom each is effectively committed to continuing sponsoring a genocide, the politics is so broken that adherence to any norms is not to be relied on.
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