hockeylover
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From whom, I’d ask? the only hope for pushback left, imo, is the people.
And it probably has to get kinda dark first there.
OT: American Politics
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And it probably has to get kinda dark first there.
lecoqsportif
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Putin papered over galactic levels of corruption and incompetence thanks to oil prices. Notice that they started war war talk re: Ukraine when the price of oil collapsed.
worm
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They have been convinced life was bad already.
lecoqsportif
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And that they’ve been screwed by immigrants, minorities and Harvard professors.
But not the oligarchy.
CH1
The Artist Formerly Known as chiggins.
IMO, this shit is depressing as real people are and will continue to get hurt, but nobody knows how it will all shake out.
From the article I linked
>>Nothing in politics is permanent, and nothing is inevitable. The scholar Timothy Snyder warns against “anticipatory obedience” to tyranny, and fatalism can be its own form of capitulation. Even a gutted democracy can always come back from the dead. “In that sense, ‘How Democracies Die’ is actually a terrible metaphor,” Levitsky told me. “Everything is reversible.” In these frantic days, he sounds like both a Cassandra and a Pollyanna, sometimes simultaneously. “We are not El Salvador, and we are not Hungary,” he said. “We spent centuries, as a society, building up democratic muscle, and we still have a lot of that muscle left. I just keep waiting for someone to use it.”
From the article I linked
>>Nothing in politics is permanent, and nothing is inevitable. The scholar Timothy Snyder warns against “anticipatory obedience” to tyranny, and fatalism can be its own form of capitulation. Even a gutted democracy can always come back from the dead. “In that sense, ‘How Democracies Die’ is actually a terrible metaphor,” Levitsky told me. “Everything is reversible.” In these frantic days, he sounds like both a Cassandra and a Pollyanna, sometimes simultaneously. “We are not El Salvador, and we are not Hungary,” he said. “We spent centuries, as a society, building up democratic muscle, and we still have a lot of that muscle left. I just keep waiting for someone to use it.”
hockeylover
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Tim Snyder took a look around and said get me the fuck outta here so they might wanna use the muscle now, that's all.
hockeylover
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View: https://bsky.app/profile/kylegriffin1.bsky.social/post/3lnvqz5gbws2s
(won't go anywhere but do it anyway)
worm
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It's his best move so far!
Wayward DP
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It was always obviously designed to be a cruel spectacle