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Legally, I don’t think anything short of the plea deal of the century could keep him out of prison. Realistically? A mob of his supporters could try and break him out, which based on recent history might not be too far-fetched.

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My biggest fear is that Trump and DeSantis both run and split the ticket, but get more votes combined than Biden. Biden wins, red states refuse to certify, some move to secede and drag the rest with them.

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People often forget the value in field verifying and it drives me insane.

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When Trump lost, they decided (and were propagandized into believing) that democracy had failed. Many of them genuinely believe that the democratic party is a fascist entity bent on destroying America. That’s the scary part.

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I’m concerned that if he goes to jail, a bunch of his redcap loyalists will try and break him out. What they lack in critical thinking skills they make up for in numbers and firepower.

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It can be dangerous to assume your enemy does not learn from their failures.

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gestures vaguely at the United States

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I accidentally took 500 once and had a friggin out-of-soul experience. Shit was wild and absolutely terrifying.

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There never has been one nation. It’s a bunch of different nations fighting over one government, and some of then are slipping into fascism.

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This is anecdotal but I have seen this as a gay man living in Ohio. My whole family is from the sticks but I live just outside a major city now. There’s a pizza place back home that my fiance and I can’t go to because they won’t serve him (he is, admittedly, quite fabulous). I can go alone, because I blend in, but him they will just quietly ignore and occasionally glance over to check if he’s gotten the hint yet. No yelling, no epithets, but no service either.

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Thanks, I didn’t realize it happened either until one day it happened to me. Then it happened again, and again. Not frequent, and not always as tangible as being denied pizza, but little things here and there in the way people look at me and treat me that only started happening after I came out. I have yet to experience any actual violence, but the general vibe is such that I don’t feel comfortable being out and am considering moving to a more friendly state.

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While I appreciate where you’re coming from, I can assure you that, in this scenario, it was very much a case of homophobia. Unless everyone there grew new personalities at the same time that I came out.

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While I agree that a forced union would be a bad idea, it might actually help to empower our genuine leftwing movements to fight back against the extremists in the south and Appalachia. It helps to think of the US not as a single country, but as a coalition of a dozen or so vague regional groups, all fighting over one government.

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While you’re correct in that the American left must be it’s own movement, I am suggesting that it cannot truly do so, due to the various groups being so geographically isolated from one another by the stranglehold conservatives have over the center of the continent. Despite all the problems that a massive multi-continent union would create, it might give prospective socialists a stronger political fulcrum with which to unseat the reigning capitalist establishment.

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I’m going to sidestep much of what you posted, not because I don’t think it’s a valid argument (in fact I agree with most of what you’ve written), but because I think it points to a fundamental misunderstanding of American work culture.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m going to assume you’re European. It is often forgotten, even by Americans, that the American government almost went full fascist in the late 1910s under President Wilson. This devastated unions and the labor movement as a whole. Conditions worsened throughout the 20th century as Walmart brand politicians successfully brainwashed millions into believing that labor unions were secret fronts for communist spies and cut any protections for unionized workers. Businesses began raising prices, cutting wages, and laying off workers whenever they tried to unionize. Fast forward to today and vast swaths of the population have been conditioned to associate unions with hard times and financial abuse.

Outside of specific regions like New England, unionizing is career suicide. People who act supportive of labor protections of any kind are ostracized pushed out, and God forbid you actually to start a union. A few people tried to at my old job, and they were all “cut due to budgetary reasons” the week before the first negotiations. A few people who were friends with them got sacked too, just to make the message clear. A man at another job tried to start the conversation and he was stonewalled and mocked by our coworkers until he quit. Mix that with a near complete lack of a social safety net or unemployment benefits and it becomes nearly impossible to get any kind of workers’ movement off the ground.

That’s not to say we don’t try. My brother is studying labor law and I’m moving to a different state that has some semblance of workers rights because I refuse to give my labor to one that doesn’t. I support labor movement everywhere I work, but sometimes I would rather not risk becoming homeless.

Ultimately though I have no objections with anything you’ve said, I’m just a sad American socialist pining for better days.

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As someone who has lived their whole life around these people, I can assure you many of them really have drunk the kool-aid. It’s honestly all quite sad, and has cost me a number of friendships.

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You’re assuming they’ll do it alone and not as part of a coalition that controls large swaths of the American interior. A federation doesn’t mean shit if half the parties involved walk out.

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Superliminal is a fun puzzle game that plays with perspective to find out-of-the-box solutions.

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How about peacefully Balkanizing the continent and letting each geocultural region govern themselves? New England, the South, Appalachia, Pacific Northwest, etc.

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Yet

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If you run an office and need your computers to be relatively idiotproof, use Windowss

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Gaming, news, tech, general literature. All of these are somewhat thriving, with a steady influx of posts and comments. At the same time, the userbase is sorely lacking for more niche communities. In my case it'd be stuff like poetry, yoga, religion, linguistics, meditation. Or many other communities I'd doubt they'd form a...

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Congratulations! You get to help found those niche communities in a new place!

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test post please ignore

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