Too many people do not want violence of any form ever, so they’ll just let maga do what they want.

If the rules prohibit something, and they do it anyway, you need to stop them. Much like the paradox of tolerance, the rules are a treaty not a suicide pact.

They want to emphasize certain words, but don’t really have the confidence and writing skills to do so in other ways

that she had no idea that there was any risk to drinking the milk

Did this person not take 9th grade history?

The ignorance and stupidity of people is astounding

I think most computer users now don’t know that file systems exist

Fear and hatred of out-group is a pretty core part of conservatism. They are bad people

He got people talking, which is worth something.

Feel a little like a crazy idiot, but I wasn’t sure where long beach is and it was kind of hard to figure it out. California.

There are certainly worse candidates. Stewart still seems like he has a soul, unlike most republicans.

Well, there’s the extreme end of things that moderators don’t like posts about People love Luigi, though. But I understand not wanting to throw one’s life away, even if success pushed the entire world onto a better trajectory.

There’s also that low grade sabotage stuff that gets talked about. I think people were posting the ww2 sabotage manual a couple months ago. Stuff like have excessive meetings, make plausible mistakes to gum things up, that kind of stuff. This works better if you’re closer to a source of the problems (eg: ICE, mega corps, republican think tanks, etc)

Then there’s safer stuff like protests. There’s the really safe ones where you just go and march. Those have use, but are kind of limited and won’t fix things on their own. You can also do disruptive protests, but you have to be quick and smart, or you have a high risk of going to jail (or worse).

Radicalizing your friends also can be planting seeds. Maybe those will grow.

You could run for office, but that’s slow and expensive.

There’s probably other stuff, too, but I’m running out of steam here.

The zohran campaign called me and asked if i’d canvas. never done it before but i said yes. fuck cuomo and the other conservatives

Yes, it’s very common. There are many reasons.

Sometimes I’m just excited to share something. Could be something trivial (“i saw a cat on the walk over and it looked right at me and said ‘meow’!”). Could be something bigger (“They finally fired Useless Bob at work”)

Sometimes people want to vent. Talking about something can be emotionally soothing.

Sometimes people want help or advice. “I can’t believe I’m spending $20 a day on lunch. The stupid sandwich I got wasn’t even good. What’s your strategy?”

Humans are social creatures.

For years, prominent voices on the right argued that Democrats were enacting a police state. They labeled everything—a report on homegrown extremism, IRS investigations into nonprofits—a sign of impending authoritarianism.

Everything from the right is projection.

They are bad, dishonest , broken, people.

Well, yes. Capitalism and friends don’t care about a healthy society. They care about the owners having all the riches. This is inevitable without intervention.

This supreme Court is bad

Republicans are not fit to govern.

Reminds me of toddlers who want contradictory things.

And yet a big chunk of the country are still republicans, and another big chunk think doing anything to stop this is simply too gauche (pun intended) to consider. We can’t fight back or be at all disruptive because then they’ll do the bad things they’re planning to do anyway!

Many conservatives only care about in-group and emotions. They don’t all justify it with as many words

One problem is there don’t seem to be a lot of strong left wing candidates. There’s Zohran for NYC mayor, and… AOC I think is a mixed but on the whole good bag, I think? Sanders is like a million years old, but could be worse.

Republicans are the worst of all people.

Democrats are everyone else

There are some pretty shitty people who aren’t the absolute worst of humanity.