Building a democracy / class movement strong enough to replace them would also be strong enough to scare them into being cooler — all part of the same problem set imo; it’s crazy hard to recruit good primary challengers

Standard ideological arc, many such cases

Truth and reconciliation commissions with jail time and permabans from federal office as a reasonable, genteel alternative to extralegal outcomes

Tacit admission when they did the “Trump should step down too” editorial that they can mostly only police Democrats

I hope I’m wrong but not holding my breath for trials and truth and reconciliation commissions. Even the basic stuff they’re doing to e.g. USAID is nakedly unconstitutional and rises to the level of a human rights offense

Fwiw I don’t think leadership was prepared for it so kind of left her to her own devices. Similar to some of the racist stuff the Squad had to deal with.

After they illegally torched USAID I think they exceeded W. Bush for worst modern presidency in terms of body count and preventable suffering.

everybody talks shit about arsonists until they're stranded on an island and Jeff Probst has taken away their flint

when will the Syracuse Post-Standard's betrayal stop

Canonically good political communication / organizing book. Often think of the passage about risky actions and “beating swords to ploughshares” at nuclear sites too.

All right kids who’s got their respirator? It’s time to lay down some polyurethane!

I have paint and a bunch of little brushes. :) One of my buddy’s kids called my workshop my “craft room.” I have some gift box templates I’ve used for older kids, too. The older ones always want to see the laser engraver, too.

The Thanksgiving connection is so incidental.

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Someone said something on here last week about listing items for a very low price to avoid flakes then telling whoever shows up yeah it's free, get it out of here, have a good one -- not a bad idea sometimes