I don't think we need to be worried about full-blown civil war, but preparing for an increase in stochastic terrorism probably isn't the worst idea.

murder is in general bad, fed-posting is inadvisable

also there's a broader boring argument about the dangers of violence being normalized as means of political change, but those arguments are boring

new skill learned: "investigative journalism"

Douchey rant?

I can't really imagine danger being particularly extreme for anyone other than trans people, for trans folk updating passports is likely a good idea. But keep in mind that blue states would still be relatively safe.

If shit truly gets to the point where it's death squads and fascist street gangs, realistically there would not be anywhere in the world that would be safe.

I use https://gitlab.com/... and I almost never reach a paywall, not sure if there's a chrome version

I could understand an NDA if you're talking about the particulars of the backend, but the fact that we don't know what the NDA contains, AND the author of the entire protocol hasn't been approached doesn't bode well (https://octodon.social/@cwebber/110567421460454488)

I agree is justified in many situations, the French revolution ain't a good example for that, namely that it didn't work in the long run with all the Napoleon-ing. The people most adept at violence, who will be most empowered by violence as normalized political tactic mostly don't promote the interests of most people if they get into power. Napoleon and such

also every time there's been prominent "propaganda of the deed" it's backfired by inciting a HUGE state crackdown, Tsar Alexander II and William Mckinley come to mind though both were relative reformers, which would make this about target selection and not alienating potential allies rather than the use of the tactic in general

truth is dead

yoooo if we get MAGA to turn against cattle ranchers that might actally be huge for american politics in the long term

An important aspect of the success of D&D/40k has been fan creations and lore explainers. A challenge for growing a creative commons (alternatives is that there isn't a unified set of "cannon" stories for independent creators to make "TOP 10 WACKIEST THINGS IN [franchise]" which are the intellectual equivalent to baby food (which I don't mean as an insult).

then again, d&d and 40k are popular because the companies that own them decided to let smaller creators do the work of reprocessing the decades worth of lore into easily consumable and marketable chunks. Both the small creators and the central company got to symbiotically feed off of the brand value of the other. Then begins the enshitification once the brand reaches the mainstream

The problem for less centrally controlled media isn't just that there isn't decades worth interconnected lore within one overarching franchise, it's that stories that aren't centrally controlled will mutate and be remixed too much to have the sort of symbiotic brand growth of 40k and d&d

Fascists think they do

For some reason the thing that sticks out to me most here is the fact that the packing plant is owned by a company out of Oklahoma and that the Janitorial contractor hasn't just been fined before, it's be fined before in multiple states and has operations stretching from nw Iowa to VIRGINA

Well ain't that just fucking grim

There's also an important conversation to be had as to if talking about the specific effects is the best strategy, I'll be doing it anyway. but we still shouldn't loose track of how this is all flagrantly unconstitutional and a naked attempt to turn the federal government into a monarchy.

the prodigal Jim returns!

New York man

The difference with Fetterman is that his background was as a rich nepo-baby who got his start in politics getting elected mayor and having major government functions flow through his family's charity.

My understanding of why fetterman got such a good rap, was because of his social media strategy being run by an especially talented progressive campaign staffer who (I wish I had the citation sorry) I believe has since denounced him as an elected official

For Platner there really is nothing that smells insincere about him to me. Definitely questionable judgment, but scheduling a tattoo coverup basically the instant it became a campaign issue is a plus in my book. But I'm not from Maine so I'm not going to push too hard for any candidate