This isn't meant to discourage people from participating at all, it just helps to consider these eventualities.

Not saying this will happen, but -- Trump sends agitators to polling places, mayhem ensues. Trump declares elections suspended. An important ingredient here is cowardice from the opposition and civil society/business leaders, and their willingness to play along.

Competence doesn't seem like a useful concept here. It's like a dance where absolute idiocy from one side is met with complete cowardice and prevarication on the other.

As receitas dela só dão errado pra mim

She apologized and it doesn't track with the rest of her content. It's a bit weird to see you of all people engaging in this.

It’s a way to keep undermining the intelligence and credibility of women even as they’re supposedly acknowledging that those women were right while they were wrong.

I hope you write about this because I found it intensely validating - been experiencing it for the past few years a lot and it feels pretty unsettling tbh

I know men who built their entire progressive media careers out of being part of misogynistic Twitter mobs

Sure looks like a small state to me