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Definitely degradation. Deskilling is a well-established phenomenon.

Frank Herbert knew what was up. Butlerian Jihad now.

Have you seen the movie?

No, my academic background is political science, not history, but they overlap. ‘The exception that proves the rule’ is generally trite, but I think if holds true in the case. Part of why revolutions are studied is that they’re rare. Most modern human history is a story of unequal distribution of wealth and the exploitation and coercion required to uphold that, and the moments in history where that bubbles into revolution are rare. It’s easy to say the French revolted in 1789, but that ignores centuries of the ancien régime remaining in power.

Conditions won’t just deteriorate until an eventual revolution. A revolution itself generally can’t be planned, but successful ones take a lot of groundwork.

Davis describes herself as a trans refugee. Back in Texas, she says, lived in a “pretty hostile and frankly dangerous” place. “I had a lot of close calls, a lot of threats.”

Wilbur also describes himself as a “refugee.” He relates an experience that is a virtual mirror image of Davis’. In Seattle, the local conservative talk show host — who also briefly served as Washington state Republican chair — felt like a stranger in a strange land.

Virtual mirror image, indeed.

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I want this to be true, but history seems to me to show that most people just tolerate increasingly worse conditions indefinitely. Exploited/oppressed people rising up seems the exception.

Police protect capital, not you.

When Republicans say that about their candidates, we rightly call them deranged cultists.

The striking workers our strike kitchens feed disagree. The unhoused we give clothes to disagree. The tenant unions we support disagree.

When I want opinions on the real life organizing I do in my community, I’ll ask the other real life organizers in my community and the community I serve, not some random internet stranger.

I have but I’m a bad public speaker. I do political organizing in real life, including helping run a recurring mutual aid distribution, and that seems a more valuable use of my time than a quixotic vanity challenge.

You’ve studied Nazism at a collegiate level but are asking for a source on what a totenkopf is…?

We keep voting for the lesser evil and then act suprised when candidates keep being evil.

Don’t be MAGA-brained. Politicians with a D after their name can still be criticized.

Not knowing what it is is an obvious lie, sorry. There’s no way the white male millennial soldier that grew up with the History Channel didn’t know what it was. His friends and family have said he knew what it was. He had Reddit posts defending police getting SS bolts and discussing the thematic differences between Totenkopf and Punisher tattoos.

And, honestly, if he genuinely didn’t know what it was, that level of historical ignorance should also be disqualifying.

Genuinely hope I’m wrong about him, but it’s frustrating that Maine couldn’t find a candidate without a Nazi tattoo. Or one that doesn’t go on Nazi podcasts and call themselves long time fans. Or one that didn’t enlist in a war they thought was wrong because they wanted to kill people. Or one that didn’t merc for Blackwater.

I get that one can’t pick their family, but his blue blood parents trying to buy him a mayorship is also wild.

Wild that people just casually admit to outsourcing their thinking to a machine. I’d never willing post something that embarrassing. Butlerian Jihad Now.

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Kobo has it’s own ebook store, plus it connects with Overdrive (outdated version of Libby) to handle library checkouts.

Kobo is also really easy to sideload books on to, so you can, you know, just get them from wherever…