KelvarCherry [They/Them]

just rotate the piece at different angles on the plate, which would change the positions of vertexes and generate an unrecognizable set of printer head instructions. No extra pieces necessary; and even if there were, there’s no need for them to be printed attached to the main part.

USA person here. I’ve never seen or heard anything about registering as Republican to avoid scrutiny. I understand why, with all the voter rolls being seized, one may be afraid of being a registered Dem; but I don’t believe any such trend currently exists.

I do, however, fully agree with your sentiment. The wide-spread “Midterms” hope-sheeping has led us to sleepwalk into fascism. In these two years that liberals have used for little more than marches with snarky signs, we have normalized the complete erasure of security on our property; encroached upon the First Amendment to make it commercially nonviable; normalized racism, xenophobia, homophobia, transphobia; normalized government violence against civilians; and allowed our government to run concentration camps.

If there is a violent reaction to any blue wave, which there may very well be, the Republicans are far more equipped now than they were in 2020/2021. With the inadequacy of the USA populace and every institution—both which have rotted for decades—the only way the USA can be saved is if the alt-right willingly erases itself. I don’t see that happening.

AOE comes from the bottle breaking. The danger with an unsecured molotov is the fuel may leak out of the top, in which case that AOE is going to be a broad spray starting above your people.

With all the talk about “blue seats” and “blue voters” I fear most are missing the real issue. This is not just about Democrat voter disenfranchisement; We’re seeing black majority districts have their voters diluted into pools that will deprive the black community of fair representation at the state and federal level.

So much in USA political analysis treats this nation as a Democrat v. Republican turf war; failing to consider what those seats mean. When the Black community calls to fix issues that are killing their people (#BlackLivesMatter); and the majority-white neolib Democrats brush them off… this is why.

Beyond the seat colors, redistricting leads to groups being branded irrelevant. When a 75% black district is split into three regions and merged to supermajority white districts, that community effectively loses their voice. That is why we have the Voting Rights Act.

“After a year focused on immigrants here illegally” bullshit. They have been canceling legal immigrants’ statuses and arresting them at court houses. Remember the terrifying video from March 2025, where a pro-Palestine student on a student visa had that visa revoked and was grabbed by masked agents in broad daylight? This interview of detainees from November 2025 covers ALL legal immigrants.

The US Government lied when they said they were taking the “worst of the worst”, and they lie when they say they’re solely deporting “illegals”. It was a year focused on terrorizing non-citizens, and to a lesser extent, citizens of color and Hispanic origin.

Yep. This is just one of those aspects of the internet era. I’m certain people publicly said far worse than this in every nation, and they were shunned and their words never made it into a printed article. I know far worse claims that have been published on YouTube and also never got an article about them.

Now there is the aspect that this is an organization registered as a charity. I can’t speak for the UK, but in the USA, it’s very easy to form a registered charity organization if you are willing to bind yourself to the limitations of such. It’s not something that a government department head signs off on, or a parliamentary body votes on. It’s usually an accounting operation and a rubber stamp.

So I looked up the video mentioned in the article. This just sounds like someone who is insane and/or trying to garner attention from religious hysteria. Even after this article’s publication, the video mentioned in the article has 397 views and only 7 likes, so it doesn’t seem like anyone cares who these people are.

This payout was part of a settlement to get Larry Bushart to drop the complaint over his First Amendment Rights that Larry was Absolutely going to win.

To be fair, Hillary Clinton floated running again in 2020 and she never even launched that campaign. I don’t think there’s much intent behind this. I suppose it makes these former candidates feel special, or satiates some craving for attention :P

Oh I’m sure she’ll soon be speaking at some big universities (for money) and she’ll probably also be at a few DNC events…maybe; possibly; ever.

two dates to gamble upon.

I share your sentiment. There’s a lot of work to be done in running general strikes. There’s also work in sabotaging workplaces.

Moscow Mitch’s endorsements couldn’t beat Trump. Mitch McConnel. That guy IS the Kentucky Republican Party…except when Trump disagrees.

this comment applies to 90% of USA political mania.

I feel the same. I just don’t see how we get this country to lock in. Even as people get upset—in January 2025 over the DOGE terrorism; more recently over these data centers—nothing ever comes of it. Progressive and rational voices speak up, but we’re drowned out.

I fear there is just too much against us. There are too many distractions for the disillusioned. The only current movement that has overcome that is MAGA, with their ravenous hatred; but they obviously aren’t the solution.

I’m not giving up—for I and many others USA politics isn’t something we can “log out” of—but I can’t ignore that all the introspection and analysis I’ve tried runs into the same seemingly-impassible pitfalls.

Have you seen the Republican primaries this month? Trump’s endorsements won across the board. Even Thomas Massie; a Republican who rallied against data centers, big tech remotely controlling cars, and AIPAC; lost his seat because Trump bashed him. It doesn’t seem like voters regret backing Trump at all, as evident by how much shit Trump’s administration is getting away with.

There is no “rock bottom”; just increasingly lower and denser extremes of bad. Every time we hit a new layer, it seems like it’s as bad as it can be, and then with the weight of how far we’ve fallen; we’re pushed further down.

…bb-bUt look at everything but Democrats did win. Donor money, trips to Israel, lobbying dinners, suspiciously-accurate stock market moves… You need to re-shape your mindset and focus on the incremental gains!

the Working Families Party is the best hope USAmericans have. Unlike the Green Party, they’re focused on building up their party from the small positions, and proving themselves that way.

Fully agreed with everything besides that MAGA’s forces “aren’t yet violent” — ICE and vigilantes both are terrorizing and killing people in the street and in camps.

Unfortunately as you noted the left and liberals are not fighting back. Everyone besides MAGA seems to be more focused on defending the notion that this is “politics” than defending their neighbors. I don’t see hope for that changing.