So you have no red line.

In 2028 when Harris is exterminating everyone in the immigration detention camps you’ll vote for her because Republicans are worse.

Oh I absolutely loved it, don’t get me wrong. I lived through that decade as my own political awakening, so every single event described was something I watched super closely and posted about and participated in as part of the online activist space (and sometimes in person!)

Your observation that the social media companies can leverage and benefit from these protest movements (and perhaps even create them) is important, I think. It’s probably why Musk bought Twitter, he wanted to wield that kind of power over the masses and their ability to organize. It seems to have worked, too. We don’t see anything like what we saw in the 2010s these days.

I read another book along similar lines called If We Burn, which was a broader look at the 2010s protest movements that sprung up from online activism. What I took away from it is that most of that activism was hollow and didn’t have a political vision or party program, it was just the masses shouting “No!” at their shitty governments. It was also easily put down once people in power got used to it.

It’s not just “other people” that make those experiences bad.

It’s specific people.

YES! Yes holy shit, I love to make kids cringe by intentionally using memes wrong.

I’m not even a teacher but this is the best part of being a full adult.

Hotter take: patents shouldn’t exist.

Trump is the most American president we’ve ever had.

That’s MY president.

Only good US Representative.

Continuing a proud American tradition of deputizing the settlers to harass the colonized population.

Whelp.

I absolutely believe this, and I think we’re going to eventually find out he sabotaged Harris’s campaign 🤫

The Republican race 😔

Less of an assist, more like he neutered the effect of that comedian calling Puerto Rico a garbage patch. Now they have a tit-for-tat response (even if it’s clearly different) and both controversies cancel each other out.

Fuck rolling Rs is so hard for my cracker ass.

Except the bottom track loops around to run over everyone else when the Supreme Court decides it wants to hurt more people.

Let’s say the Supreme Court decides to end gay marriage at a federal level and send it back to the states. Harris won’t do shit to help people in red states, she’ll just tell them to vote for Democrats in 2026/2028 but otherwise ignore them.

I’m from Iowa.

The difference between Democrats and Republicans is that Democrats will merely watch while Republicans kill me.

Democrats will never blame themselves. They can only blame foreign adversaries and leftists.

You aren’t getting close enough.

Push your head through the screen.

There’s a new pink tide struggling to be born in Latin America right now and China continues its meteoric rise as not only a superpower, but possibly dethroning US hegemony. In addition, the Axis of resistance remains defiant against the settler-colonial entity known as Israel.

It’s not all bad.