Sure, but you don't get to revolution without many smaller escalations

Libs harp on that word because it sounds rightly ridiculous to an american, but say 'armed protest' and suddenly it sounds a lot more realistic.

it’s designed to only function as advertised if there’s full participation

Uh, what? Are you forgetting that suffrage was originally limited to land-owning men?

It was never designed for full participation - universal suffrage has been repeatedly rejected in favor of 'compromised' exclusions since our founding.

Our system has been quite literally designed to prevent full participation, idk where this idea comes from that full participation is somehow the true spirit of american democracy.

Either way, it’s much easier to convince people to go out and vote than it is to convince them to take up arms in a revolution, kill their opponents, and risk being killed or imprisoned as a consequence

It's not an exaggeration to say that basically every bit of progress for labor and democratic rights in the US has been won by violent struggle, and it's never been by a 'majority' of voters.

Apathetic morons who don't realize that the president is only held accountable by the other branch of government

Maybe this was a typo, but there are actually 3 branches of government, and we're already in a constitutional crisis between the first and third

For retaking a chamber of congress to be significant in the fight against fascism it has to actually be functioning. If they were to impeach and convict (60 votes in the Senate and they currently only have 47), Trump could just say 'no' like he did to the SC. Even if they convicted and Trump didn't just say 'I ain't fucking leavin', a third of the country is still rabidly supportive of him. That'll impact who even can win seats in congress, and they would probably burn the national mall down this time

Libs need to get past their inability to see how the system has completely fallen apart.

History never ended, we should stop pretending like it did.

How about for the American government in general?

I’d have more respect for your argument if you had something constructive to suggest, rather than simply asserting what you stand against.

I've made several.

The truth is that the Democrats have plenty of options in at least slowing down the rapid growth, but dismiss them out-of-hand simply because they break decorum. Booker just did a 25 hour filibuster (which is awesome), but he wasn't even filibustering a bill. Democrats only seem to want to break decorum when the stakes are low enough not to piss off republican lawmakers, and that's a huge problem when those lawmakers DGAF about democrat reactions and break the law anyway.

This is the time to be raising the alarm and making noise (remember when libs were whining that 16 months before an election was 'not the time' to be protesting democrats?). I don't care about the occasional good thing the dems do in opposition to fascism, I care about all the things they're not doing. They're still acting as if there will still be elections, even though they spent the last 2 years screaming that there won't be any more if trump wins.

At some point they have to start behaving like they actually believe what they've been trying to convince the rest of us of.

Depends on the type of magnesium

Liberals and progressives staying home wouldn't matter if the democratic party appealed to the working class as a whole instead.

It doesn't 'personalize' it for you though, you do that for yourself

All the default sorting algorithms do is sort by basic global metrics like time and activity - anything else is done by the user (blocking, subscribing, ect) and the instance (federation or banning).

People misunderstand just how broad a term 'algorithm' actually is.

The ceasefire ended

Just want to point out the passive language there - it didn't just 'end' by itself, Isreal ended it

Idk if using a homophonic slur (even as an lgbt individual) will fly here either, honestly.

Just a heads-up

..... ok but isn't that post still about your burn out with blahaj?

Do you have something more specific than your (purely objective) recounting of what happened? A link to it?

At the moment, I'm not sure I'd trust you if you told me the sky was blue