and look, it's fine if you're not super familiar with frederick douglass, most people know less about this stuff than they're willing to admit, it's good to go "whoops! I was wrong!"... but MAYBE YOU SHOULD CONSIDER WHETHER THAT IGNORANCE AFFECTS YOUR ESTIMATION OF WHO IS A RACIST GENOCIDE DENIER

It’s one thing to get pushed back. It’s another to attempt a charge right into the heart of the enemy. If it peters out halfway, you’re not just losing, you’re going to be annihilated. Trump is fast arriving at that moment

Now what? They can’t regather their momentum. They’re much weaker than before and even their strongest wasn’t strong enough. Their leaders are detested, their cult of personality is built around a rotting human mound, they cannot regain the initial shock. The ship is sinking; who will board it now?

Their plan was to take the momentum of their initial shock victory, measly as it was, and push through all the lines of resistance, counting on each one to fold out of pragmatism, so their strength was never tested. But Minneapolis didn’t fold, their strength was tested, and they broke instead.

Given that they are not winning, and in fact probably cannot win, the goal needs to be stopping them, as quickly and permanently as possible, so that we have to rebuild less in the aftermath

Biden got absolutely hosed by this because everyone, regardless of partisanship, agreed that Joe Biden was the Senile Inflation President, because that was the view on TikTok that proved you were In The Know, and thus they all convinced themselves groceries doubled in two years.

I think the thing to really understand here is that there are *actual* veteran organizers on site who are Shutting The Fuck Up and doing the work without posting about it, and there are “veteran organizers” who are using ‘opsec’ as a cudgel while they post from an easily subpoena’d social media acct