Exactly! If Dem leadership refuses to meaningfully push back (even in messaging) against imperialism, expect somebody else to pick up the slack. And THAT is always going to be a gamble.

In this case it ain't fecklessness, it's the establishment's own love of corruption and elite impunity.

Anyone who responds to serious criticism by railing against "wokeness" is not a good person, regardless of whatever positive experience one has had with them in the past.

They also got a warning on e621, though the web screenshot I have is way too long and I am literally minutes away from starting work so I'm sorry about not providing an actual alt text atm. Here's the link to it to read the extended warning in full: e621.net/wiki_pages/8...

Right? You couldn't *pay* me to use a toilet that takes pictures of my poop.

Imagining a guy who is negatively polarized into starting the most combat effective chapter of a modern American Iron Front because he hates how all the weird trad-reactionary fetishists have tarnished his perfectly good niche corners of various websites

That's the most wholesome thing I've read this evening.

also, choosing to quietly resign when you know the soldiers under your command are going to be given orders you think may be illegal is coward shit, you make them fucking fire you and then you fight them on it

not to get all conservative or anything as an inveterate homosexual stoner myself but the people in charge of American society are decadent, hedonistic demons motivated by their basest urges, their pettiest grievances, and their vilest bigotries

As an R strategist, you'd probably feel better about a 16-point D shift in a special election with 60% of midterm turnout than a 12-point shift with 100% of midterm turnout.