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Jason Marbach
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Sorry, you don’t get to vote for dismantling the whole reason we have a July 4th and then celebrate July 4th. Pick one
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Father, Author, Lover, Human. He/Him. Modern Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Thriller/Fantasy/Chaos/Weird, Insane Stories Set in a shared universe. Creative partner with @rwmeadors.bsky.social. I’ll follow back, let’s help each other rebuild our follower counts!
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Jason Marbach
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Sorry, you don’t get to vote for dismantling the whole reason we have a July 4th and then celebrate July 4th. Pick one
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Jason Marbach
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Man, The Boys really is just unmitigated shit now, huh?
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Jason Marbach
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They’re definitely bonering
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Jason Marbach
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The Acolyte is quite good, actually
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Jason Marbach
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Sounds like he’s volunteering to be first, to me
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Jason Marbach
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Aaaaand I got blocked 🤣🤡
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Jason Marbach
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I’m sorry, it’s well past time to give them what they’re asking for and just get it over with. It’s about time this tiny little group of garbage remember how small they actually are
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Jason Marbach
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Aight, well, blood it is then. He can volunteer first
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Jason Marbach
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Notice how quiet the “originalists” have been the last 24 hours or so? Remember that.
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Jason Marbach
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Listen,
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Kaitlin Has Had Enough
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The United States has always been a democracy for some and a brutal authoritarian regime for others, and the effort to expand it to democracy for all has led to a 70+ year backlash culminating in SCOTUS claiming that kings are totes cool and also judges are the ones to coronate them
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Jason Marbach
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Both, and more (worse)
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Jason Marbach
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“Mercy ain’t got no judgement, Justice got a rag tied around her eyes Oughtta be tears rollin’ down her face At the blind trying to lead the blind Rich man rolls the dice Poor boy pays the price” - The Steeldrivers, “The Price”
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Jason Marbach
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I think we’re well past the point of supposition and firmly treading the waters of certitude, at this point. It’s not “if,” it’s “when” and “how bad will it be, for how long.”
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Jason Marbach
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BRB, off to make sure I have that guy blocked. Ffs
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Jason Marbach
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Yeah Biden is simply not up for this moment in history.
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Jason Marbach
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Nailed it in one.
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Jason Marbach
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Nobody could be as stupid and useless as them natively. I just can’t conceive of it.
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Jason Marbach
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Prediction: Biden will burp out some “rah rah I have faith in the system” nonsense, the centrists will rediscover that they think “oh hey, everything is fine, actually” and we’ll all keep merrily marching along towards destruction
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Jason Marbach
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If the above possible quotes (or anything resembling them) are what comes out of his mouth, he needs to resign. Tonight, not tomorrow.
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Jason Marbach
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Biden has until the conclusion of his remarks that begin at 6:45 CST tonight to convince me that he’s up to meeting this moment he finds himself in as president. “We just have to vote harder!” and “Donate to Act Blue!” and “The system can still work!” are, point blank, insufficient.
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Ed Burmila
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me, savvy, being fed into the wood chipper: i want everyone to know how much i respect the wood chipper and my loyal friends feeding me into it
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Jason Marbach
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Surprise of surprises, the guy who has never been up to the moment he’s facing as president is once again not up to the moment he’s facing
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Jason Marbach
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Considering that the original definition of fascism from Mussolini himself intrinsically tied the power of the state and the power of the corporation to one another…yeah, that makes sense
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Thomas Zimmer
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We need to see the Supreme Court’s disastrous rulings in the context of the Right’s larger project to uphold traditional hierarchies of race, wealth/class, gender, and religion - all part of the attempt to halt the drive towards egalitarian, multiracial, pluralistic democracy.
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Jason Marbach
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But instead we’ll get “folks, don’t give up hope! Here’s an act blue link where you can donate to the “save America” fund today!”
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Josh
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No one is coming to save us.
We need to build working-class power, we need to build a movement that can crush fascism, we need to organize like never before.
Because we don't have a democracy to save, but we do have one to build from the ground up.
www.jphilll.com/p/the-suprem...
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Jason Marbach
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It’s going to require us to break through the artificially constructed “sides” that corporations and politicians decided for us decades (or more) ago. It’s capital versus not-capital. We need to get through to people that you aren’t Democrat or Republican, you are capital or servant.
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Jason Marbach
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“That’s the plan.” - Luthen from Andor (not to be overtly glib, I am in no way joking about the seriousness of the stakes)
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Jason Marbach
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It’s notable that most large nations in human history (including both of the current countries larger than us) devolve to some level of autocracy if given enough time, in my opinion. There’s a lesson in there somewhere.
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Jason Marbach
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The permadeath of capitalism would help a lot. What we’d probably end up with would be more cellular and localized. A bunch of small nations instead of one big one.
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Jason Marbach
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This is the human condition, though. We’ve been living through a blip of relative peace and prosperity in human history.
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Jason Marbach
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Oh no, almost certainly not justice. At least, not for a long time. A generation, maybe. Long after I’ve been carted off to die in a camp somewhere. It’s probably years of anarchy and upheaval, and what emerges at the end is very likely to be co-opted by coporofascists pretty quickly.
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Jason Marbach
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I wanted that after the 2020 election. I’m there with you on that, for sure. But the response from the system is almost certainly not going to be “okay, we’re listening,” let’s just say.
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Jason Marbach
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But also, yeah, not having an open, avowed fascist who is blatantly saying “hell yeah I’m going to dissolve the nation and rule as a king” is an absolute requirement.
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Jason Marbach
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From the perspective as I’m describing it, expediting the official death of the experiment causes *less* overall death than prolonging the twitching does. That’s the mentality, anyway. No one is the villain in their own minds, after all.
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Jason Marbach
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It’s the first volley in a real war. Between us, and the system. It’s ugly, it’s bad, there’s no way around that.
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Jason Marbach
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I completely agree that it will resort to violence (and propaganda like the human race has never seen before) almost immediately. I don’t think the general strike can give us everything we want all at once. I think it can force the government (and both parties that prop it up) to drop the mask.
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Jason Marbach
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It’s the only peaceful (ish, depending on how you define violence) option available to us. We’ve never mounted a general strike as large as what I’m talking about. I mean, the human race has never mounted a general strike as big as what I’m talking about.
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Jason Marbach
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I find this response extremely gratifying - that’s all I really wanted. Thank YOU! ❤️
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Jason Marbach
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I wish it was good news. But it’s not.
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Jason Marbach
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None of us should continue fostering any delusion, though. Voting (which, again, I’m planning to do too) is probably doing nothing but making the inevitable collapse worse and more prolonged.
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Jason Marbach
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Anyway, sorry for the long winded response. Again, I’m not condoning anything in particular. I’m going to personally go vote for the senile, geriatric genocide enabler, and then go home and cry myself to sleep. But if direct action (read: Gen strike) is in the offing, I am absolutely game.
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Jason Marbach
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Or, we can just lay back and accept it. Again, I’m not condoning anything here (especially violence), I just wanted to explain what it looks like when one recalibrates their perspective based on the last 10 years or so of evidence we’ve been presented.
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Jason Marbach
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And frankly, *realistically*, it’s also going to require some violence. I don’t mean theoretical violence, I mean literal bricks and guillotines for certain “elites” and such. I do *not* like that, I consider myself a pacifist, but we’re speaking of realistic requirements, not wants.
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Jason Marbach
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We need a broad coalition of more than 100 million Americans to enact a FULL general strike IMMEDIATELY - to literally shut this entire country down economically. Hit them in the wallets - at BARE minimum - to even have a CHANCE.
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Jason Marbach
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That’s the thought process. Days like today definitely push me a lot closer to that school of thought, to be brutally honest, but at very least, we must take direct, sweeping action.
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Jason Marbach
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The longer we the people allow the corpse to continue twitching & feigning life, the more people will die *long term.* So the theory is to expedite the final death, so that whatever comes next can come sooner rather than later, because that IS the way to protect the most people. In this perspective.
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Jason Marbach
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The idea is that neither party can save this system, because the system is already dead and simply hasn’t realized it yet. In this cynical (but not necessarily wrong) read, *millions and millions are going to die no matter what we do.*
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Jason Marbach
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The rationale basically starts from the presupposition that the American experiment is already dead, and that the cadaver we’re living in currently is simply still twitching. Still in the death throes.
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