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RyszardWithAZ @ryszardwithaz.bsky.social · 11h

Is anything changing tomorrow? The day after? Until something drastically does, it's performative.

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RyszardWithAZ @ryszardwithaz.bsky.social · 11h

Why? It's not as if we have accountability.

RyszardWithAZ @ryszardwithaz.bsky.social · 11h

"finally"? How cutely innocent.

RyszardWithAZ @ryszardwithaz.bsky.social · 11h

Can we fast-forward to that now?

RyszardWithAZ @ryszardwithaz.bsky.social · 11h

And @adamkinzinger.substack.com just ignored it too, when it was already racist and toxic. Sure, he says the right things now, but he was all-in at some point.

RyszardWithAZ @ryszardwithaz.bsky.social · 11h

Willie Horton. "Family values". Three strikes laws. "Welfare queens." They were screaming it back then too, white/straight people just ignored it.

RyszardWithAZ @ryszardwithaz.bsky.social · 15h

And I'd love to tag @schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social but... I don't think you're paying attention to anything.

RyszardWithAZ @ryszardwithaz.bsky.social · 15h

Hey @kenmartin.bsky.social, this is one of the biggest Dem failures of the last 30 years, when the hell do we finally start?

RyszardWithAZ @ryszardwithaz.bsky.social · 15h

Alright so are we ready for step 2 now? We've needed it since 2000 but still no step 2. We need to build a media & political ecosystem on the ground, online,in the media. The Right's been doing it for decades, buying billboards, legacy media, social platforms, news orgs. WHAT. ARE. WE DOING.

RyszardWithAZ @ryszardwithaz.bsky.social · 15h

a picture of yoda with the words that is why you fail above him

ALT: a picture of yoda with the words that is why you fail above him

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RyszardWithAZ @ryszardwithaz.bsky.social · 15h

Great! Where's step 2? We never get to step 2!! Come on!

RyszardWithAZ @ryszardwithaz.bsky.social · 16h

So... you feel better, right? But we're still under an authoritarian regime. Nothing's changed. What next?

RyszardWithAZ @ryszardwithaz.bsky.social · 16h

He'd be prouder if we actually fucking voted. We're still not doing what we've known for 25 years we need to do: investing & building a media & political ecosystem to fight the Right's bullshit. In fact we've lost basically all mainstream media in the last few years.

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RyszardWithAZ @ryszardwithaz.bsky.social · 16h

So a ton of us marched (again) today. And? What's next? Another march? We did this in 2016 and did that get us anywhere? Did it change anything? Oh but we "feel better" right? We're in an authoritarian country, we shouldn't be feeling better.

RyszardWithAZ @ryszardwithaz.bsky.social · 16h

I know I've said this more than once, but it's not to "punish" innocent people in specific regions, it's that WE'RE ALL CULPABLE here. We all let this disaster happen. The entire US is getting what we deserve & continue to deserve until we decide to do something about it. The US is currently lost.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 17h

I know Donald Trump is a pathological liar, malignant narcissistic sociopath, racist, antisemite, misogynist, xenophobe, homophobe, transphobe, hater of our troops and believer in euthanizing folks with disabilities, but we too often forget that he's *also* an adjudicated rapist and convicted felon.

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RyszardWithAZ @ryszardwithaz.bsky.social · 18h

Also, funny that comments are limited under that post. Don't want reality to burst that bubble, I suppose.

RyszardWithAZ @ryszardwithaz.bsky.social · 18h

Honestly? I'm not feeling it. We've been here before and it's only getting worse. So these protests make you "feel better"? That's dandy. What's on for tomorrow that'll actually change something?

Micah @rincewind.run · 19h

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?

anyway that’s why these events are important

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RyszardWithAZ @ryszardwithaz.bsky.social · 18h

It's not on life support. It's basically dead. What do we do next?

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RyszardWithAZ @ryszardwithaz.bsky.social · 18h

And we'll do...... what?

RyszardWithAZ @ryszardwithaz.bsky.social · 20h

and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do.

RyszardWithAZ @ryszardwithaz.bsky.social · 20h

That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved;

RyszardWithAZ @ryszardwithaz.bsky.social · 20h

Except we're still too afraid of the ending of that declaration. We're happy to list the grievances, just not ready to do anything about it.

RyszardWithAZ @ryszardwithaz.bsky.social · 20h

Why do you need a stage or speakers? There is only ONE message here.

RyszardWithAZ @ryszardwithaz.bsky.social · 20h

Where's the lie?