MAGA are conservatives. The distinction between a conservative and a fascist is one of degree, not kind, so the military will be radicalized and/or purged until they become MAGA if they aren’t already.

If I’m not wrong that was the whole point of criminalizing weed.

Oh I should’ve said chattel slavery, but still abolitionism older than you imply. In any case, however, it was very much a thing by the time of the founding of the US and a few states had banned slavery even before the American war of independence. Even if we ignore the whole “not giving them their freedom despite the will of his father in law explicitly demanding it” part, someone like Washington could not have been ignorant of abolitionist thought except willingly.

1/4 of Presidents lived in a time and society where owning slaves was accepted.

Abolitionism is as old as (edit: chattel) slavery itself. They owned those slaves and inflicted unspeakable horrors on them despite no shortage of people telling them that’s wrong; it’s not like “black people are people too” was such a foreign thought to them.

Makes sense.

Why, though? I mean it’s not like Britain had to rebuild anything right?

Small comment: “Bernie bro” is a term created by centrists to discredit Bernie-supporting progressives as a bunch of sweaty white dudes.

I think rightmost second from the top guy’s problem is a bit bigger than just size.

You know how refugees and asylum seekers have to make insanely dangerous journeys in order to reach places where they can actually survive? Yeah turns out that’s not because there’s a plethora of options to choose from.

I suspect that the standard for “worth living” is going to decline very much very fast, but yes.

This is such a silly thing to complain about.

Lack of effective resistance to fascism is absolutely not a silly thing to complain about.

I met a lot of people, and heard their stories. It was massively important because it made all of us realize just how many people oppose this evil regime.

This protest was one of the largest in US history. It showed the WORLD how many of us oppose the disguising behavior we’re all witnessing.

We’ve known that since April, and again since May, June, July and now September. How many of these do you need before something happens?

What does it hurt?

Fascism running unopposed while the people who should be opposing it think their parades are going to stop it is a bad thing. It means you’re still going to get fascism.

Being not American, my game plan is to watch this shitshow unfold from the other side of the world.

As that particular wise man once said: It’ll be the ballot, or it’ll be the bullet.

And when can we expect anything concrete to happen? The clock is ticking.

Because there’s no evidence a significant number of people are willing to escalate beyond holding a parade every month and a half. With no credible calls for striking, civil disobedience, obstruction or armed resistance, what is the “networking” realistically supposed to lead to? There’ve been enough “protests” that, if there’s real progress happening, we should be able to see it.

I mean, that requires enough people involved to want to do something, which is clearly not the case.

At this rate they’ll hold does math nine more protests before the midterms. What exactly is any of this supposed to accomplish?

Definitely, but a red state in 2025 is right up there with third world countries at war for the umpteenth time in terms of bad spawn locations if Trump continues doing his thing.

Or he could be just asexual, that’s a thing too.

May I ask, good sir or madam, that you read this reply on a public forum?