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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 3h
Communist hanging out with the skeletons in their closet who is prepared to do what it takes to break GOP operatives running the government through their control of SCOTUS? Great. That makes you better than someone who checks a lot of my boxes, but not that one.
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 3h
I don't have a vote in a Maine primary, but breaking the filibuster for court reform (among other things) is such a high priority for me that you can be excellent along any number of other issues and I still have to prefer the opposition if they are better on this issue. Even if they kinda suck.
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 6h
That was his rhetorical trick. You cannot, in fact, sue for a workplace feeling "like a frathouse" unless that's code for something like sexual harassment. Which reduces the argument into, "I can't sexually harass women, but they can be all girly in front of me?!"
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 6h
Good time to remind that race science pseudoscience goes hand in hand with similar arguments about gender roles and sexual dimorphism from the same people and the resurgence of the former portends the latter.
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 6h
...to get that across, you're going to want it to penetrate through sources like this that are in the hands of right-wing actors hostile to you. That takes some thought about how you want people to behave and to nudge them in that direction.
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 6h
Speaking as someone who isn't ordinary a big fan of street protest, one of the reasons that you might want to show up to a No Kings protest is that you're going to want to send a message that that we can and should prepare for a color revolution if we lose fair elections by showing the numbers...
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 6h
When right-wing activists take over applications like Twitter and TikTok to turn them into propaganda outlets, they're involved in a war for mass media to determine public opinion.
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 6h
Mass communications via Internet applications is a form of mass media? What do you have in mind that you don't think involves communicating to lots of people at once through media tools such as this website that we're communicating on right now?
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 6h
Why do you need the mass media at all? Because that is the predominant source a very large majority of people get their opinions from, either directly or indirectly? Your problem with my point is my thinking mass communication is important in a battle for public opinion?
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 6h
Suppose hypothetically I'm not Stancil. You know, for the lols. If that were true, would you say your conviction that I am says something about how you think? You know, while we talk about not making bad assumptions?
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 6h
Is that what it says? That I think you should adjust your tactics to the terrain you will be fighting on? That's the advice of someone who doesn't want to win?
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 6h
I was say understanding the winding path of history in its appropriate context. Trump wasn't inevitable. It's a contingent development.
EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 6h
I didn't make up my mind. You are replying to a post in which I explicitly say, "I think you might mean this, but because I don't want to assume and in the interest of charity, I'll read it as this instead..." Read that again?
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 6h
To that end, pressuring Dems to oppose Trump with appropriate alarm because of his threat to liberal democracy has the added benefit of expecting that attitude to apply to Trumpists just the same.
EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 6h
I don't want to assume your point, but this feels like a oblique reference to the idea that Trump is just a symptom of CAPITALISM expressed with an intense vocal fry, but I'll take the more charitable reading that movement conservatism's fall into fascist-like politics doesn't stop with Trump.
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 6h
Trump's dictatorial ambition and the cult of personality around it is by far the most pressing problem as it is an accelerant to other cultural problems he emerged out of that he makes worse every day he holds power.
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 6h
It is, however, true that there is pervasive right-wing bias in how a lot of mass media operates. You do have to try to tactically work with the media you got, not the one you wish you had, in trying to drive narratives most favorable to you.
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 6h
I don't take your point, because the influence of the profit-motive on media is more complicated than this. The civil rights movement was covered by a media also driven by profit motives.
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 6h
And while I get you're excited about the "when do we get to start attacking Democrats?" part, the fun here for you about this is, "right away" so long as it is aimed at those who aren't acting with sufficient opposition. This helps builds mass support behind get on board or get removed.
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 6h
I don't think it's true that there is broad public understanding that Trump is a capital T tyrant or how much conviction and alarm there is among the subset of people who *do* understand this.
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 6h
You argued that in order for the protests to be effective they must be staunch in being"...against the profit motives pushed by capitalism right." No. It does not follow that you must be opposed to the profit motive to oppose Kings or have a functioning liberal democracy. That is not correct.
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 7h
But yes, the purpose of these protests is, in part, to try to communicate a well of strident opposition to Trump concerned about (as the name suggests!) the fact that Trump is destroying the Republic in order to rule over it.
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 7h
No, it does not follow that if you dislike tyrants, you must also dislike capitalism. That's a view you hold, but you are doubtless aware there are people who do not connect those two things the way you do. They're helpful as allies, particularly because there's a lot of them compared to you.
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 7h
No, I don't think Trump can be convinced to change. You do need to convince other people to oppose him with the necessary level of conviction, though.

American media has always been for-profit. That is not the factor that explains why it is now harder to push opposition to conservatives through it.
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 7h
Protests can be a tool to construct scenarios that prompt favorable mass media coverage to persuade the public and place pressure political leaders to act in desired ways. I can think of one series of protests with some success premised on this mechanism of action.
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