So you’re saying it’s generally a good idea but because now some of the Dems support the idea, we should no longer publicly support

No, they’re very clearly not saying that. They’ve explained themselves already, but to add to their point: Liberals have a long and consistent history of coopting working class movements, using them to achieve their own ends and then throwing the working class under the bus, going so far as to violently suppress the movement if it doesn’t fizzle out on its own. There is no reason to believe US liberals (aka Democrats and any Republicans willing to defect) won’t try to use this very successful playbook, so it needs to be counteracted starting right now. Organize a general strike and don’t let anyone who won’t support universal healthcare within a mile of it. The DNC isn’t currently the one holding the guns, but that doesn’t make them any less of an enemy to the working class.

Probably because all the criminals are too busy posting about scary Muslim knife attacks on X.

So that means no good ideas have ever been implemented by Western colonial/neocolonial powers then, right?

That’s evil, yes, and I did say China is pretty evil, but it’s not really corrupt. Corruption would be officials exploiting their positions for personal gain, and while I could be wrong this isn’t something I associate with China.

That’s… a bad idea. The CCP is evil, but one thing they’re not short on is good ideas.

What?

China is pretty evil, but it wouldn’t be anywhere near the top of my list of corrupt and evil countries. There’s plenty of evil to go around, and I’m not sure how China is supposed to be corrupt.

What’s that?

Getting arrested was probably part of the plan, but forcing state repression is only a useful strategy because state repression exists. The alternative—having their ICE collaborationist business disrupted—was still the better conclusion here.

It’s still good to hold him accountable to his established position

Like “protesting ICE is good?” Because that is one of his established position yet he’s out here cracking down on ICE protests.

Effective resistance is almost never legal.

Thanks Biden!

If the Democratic Party had half a brain

Reverse Hanlon’s razor. Don’t attribute to stupidity what can only be explained by malice. They (kind of) know what they’re doing.

AFAIK Lemvotes runs a private instance with a bot (???) as an admin which it uses to collect downvote information (as others have explained, the information is already there, it’s just private on the client side on most Fediverse platforms).

My impression is that they’ve been purging people from past administrations, not their own appointees. If that’s off the mark I’ll have to rethink my position, but so far the purges can be explained by how they likely want high-ranking bureaucrats and military officers to be solidly in their camp.

I disagree on the MAGA part. MAGA is currently preparing for a coup, so they need ideologically compliant sycophants at the top levels of power. That’s not paranoia; it’s a pragmatic and effective strategy.

When they leave absolutely no room for doubt that’s the way it’s going to be, then there will be far less hesitation when it comes to opposing them.

Sure, but in return they’ll be far more powerful, and the math here is overwhelmingly in their favor. Both authoritarianism and resistance require time and preparation, so there’s no time to waste on electoral politics when it’s already known that it won’t work. Any resistance movement that tries to establish itself after the authoritarian takeover will simply be crushed; the time to stop the Nazis was before the Enabling Act, not after.

They’re not going to let you vote them out. That ship has already sailed.

Relevant.

You can guess how much love I have for US allies.

I love the smell of leopards eating faces in the morning.