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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 3d

Every one of you: post at least once a day about some small thing that makes you happy that has nothing to do with politics. This is a hard and fast rule. I won’t be keeping a spreadsheet or anything but if you don’t do it, I’ll know.

Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 3d

I think, for those of us on the political left, we need to address morale as a real and pressing issue that will fuck up our ability to fight if left unaddressed. We *need* to figure out a way to keep people feeling at least minimally good about things even in shitty situations.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 2m

Abbott couching this on Trump’s behalf as “protection for federal employees,” given everything they’ve done to federal employees, makes me so fucking mad.

Greg Abbott
@GregAbbott_TX
I fully authorized the President to call up 400 members of the Texas National Guard to ensure safety for federal officials.
You can either fully enforce protection for federal employees or get out of the way and let Texas Guard do it.
Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom
STATES CANNOT INVADE ONE ANOTHER.
This is so simple -- so fundamental to America -- I cannot believe I have to type those words.
America is on the brink of martial law.

The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 5m

Yeah, absolutely agreed. I see people saying as Republicans flail Dems should add more demands, and good god no.

The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 8m

Prices will drop so you’ll pay less with the jobs you don’t have.

The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 14m

I don’t think it makes sense for Dems to publicly demand that Vought be fired as a condition of passing a funding bill, but they should hint publicly (they have been) and say explicitly in private that it’s one of the only things that could signal enough trust to pass a funding bill.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 22m

You have forgotten the face of your father.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 24m

A lot of the people who are like “don’t say this isn’t what America is, it’s exactly what America is” turn around and use eliminationist language like this to half justify continuing to think humans are good by excising some humans from the category.

The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 25m

He’s not human, he’s last of the line of Eld.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 1h

I think it is bad that incentives on this site lead large accounts to quote post it talking about how democrats are bad. This is a reflex we must recognize in ourselves and train ourselves out of because it is very easy to just do it and get affirmation for it every time.

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 3h

I really believe that huge majorities of Americans don’t want masked soldiers shooting priests in the street. They don’t want naked children ripped out out of their apartments in the middle of the night and handcuffed. We win by making sure these stories get told.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 1h

Seriously but not literally &c

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 1h

People remember the fear that hearing this made them feel, and not that he isn’t actually gonna do it, and the first counts and the second doesn’t for some reason.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 1h

Also I think it’s bad that people on here exist in the realm of pure ideas and so the fear engendered by the threat of doing this thing, which he will not follow through on, will count in their heads as a Trump W, and not doing it won’t register as a Trump L.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 1h

Oh that’s just Trump.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 1h

Personally I think it is bad that the man exercising the powers of the presidency is a demented lunatic and his copartisans and the media grade his statements on a normalizing curve taking that into account.

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2h

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 2h

Right. Mostly people outside of niche microblogging websites don’t really know this, and just saying it is he said/she said. Demonstrating it is leagues more valuable, even if it requires a kind of feigned naiveté.

The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 2h

And like, point is, they did, it worked, so let’s not worry about how what if it hadn’t?

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 2h

“But what if instead of resisting so hard, republicans had given in and passed Dems’ bill? Then Dems’ strategy would have been foolish.” Yeah but that didn’t happen so shut up. We are in the world we’re in, not the world we might have been in had different things happened.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 2h

I get the idea of “we shouldn’t have even tried to deal, we should have just said no from the start,” but if we want to actually convince people that that’s the case, showing-not-telling seems far, far superior.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 2h

Let me emphasize once again that if you’re inclined toward “no deal is possible with these guys” then trying to make a reasonable deal and getting this reaction demonstrates that far better than just asserting it and refusing to try would have.

Marcus Bösch @boesch.bsky.social · 8h

Memes serve as a tool of dark participation and are used purposefully “to disrupt, undermine, attack, resist or reappropriate discursive positions pertaining to public affairs narratives in the news” (Peters & Allan, 2021, pp. 2–3)

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 2h

Automatically texts Mike Johnson and his son if you masturbate.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 2h

It was different then because ACA and non privatized social security was the real fascism.

The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 2h

And Greg Sargent is good, but he reposted this shit, maybe hastily, but we owe it to ourselves to take care with what we’re boosting.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 2h

If you have two switches, Dems (good/bad) because they do too (much/little) and you only toggle the second one, ask yourself how you’re helping.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 2h

Look we have to be the everyone else coalition and accept allies in our fight against fascism but that doesn’t mean I’m not gonna bristle at shit like this from a guy who works at the goddamn Cato Institute.

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 3h

“voters will side with the rule of law over authoritarian dictatorship—IF they are presented with this as a clear choice.” Too bad Democrats in leadership positions don’t want to fight authoritarianism

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 4h

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 2h

Seems bad that even niche microblogging sites are big enough to function as validation machines for anything a big enough account might say.

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