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Here's a much funnier bit by Howard Zinn on the topic: The Myth of American Exceptionalism (MIT, 2005)

And threatening cities that aren't being aggressive enough in invading tent cities for his taste.

There's a lot of ground to cover. Can't let the fascism falter anywhere.

...or send the children your own coup turned into refugees back to die with their mothers in the death zone to "send a message" not to fuck with the militarized U.S. border.

We should've asked Palestinians a long time ago what it would take to close Gitmo. Heh.

Garbage? I am disappointed they didn't follow France's lead and do shit bombs, TBH. But it's still kinda funny.

Lots of potential candidates are polling better than Biden vs. Trump (but most still losing to him). However, I suspect once the Demonrats nominate someone and everyone actually looks at the act and realizes, hey wait a minute, this is 100% undemocratic and I never had a chance to say anything about this candidate in a primary, there'll be a substantial drop in polling for any such candidate anyway. It's not like they are going to hold some kind of emergency primary special election or anything. LOL. They'll absolutely take this "opportunity" to appoint someone and not bother with the pretense of pretending to ask voters about it.

Ugh. So they are fleeing in the face of threatened state violence, and despite the fact that they claim they are "evolving" rather than giving up, you can bet we'll never hear from them again. Just like the UCLA encampment promised to come right back after being broken apart, and then subsequently disappeared entirely.

We have zero staying power. Not a good feeling.

Yeah. Well said. I just think it's good that the mask is slipping in more ways than one, and it's creating a weakness in the solid wall of propaganda that most working-class slobs in the U.S. are happy to allow to blind them about the nature of the system. The hole between the failure of the donkey-brand marketing and whatever they do next to try to shore it up gives us some space for more revolutionary organizing. A space where more people realize we don't have any protection from the fascism and neoliberalism and the capitalism they serve other than us.

I can see this happening, TBH. And then a battle being waged over whether or not to add hostile architecture (like the kind of square "speed bump" type obstacles in the video) back in to keep e.g. people in wheelchairs from actually using the ramps.

Bernie should've run independent, but he's a good lapdog.

Also, he still owes me $27. I won't bill him for the hours I spent canvassing, because I proselytized actual leftism while I did it, and made his candidacy secondary.

Damn. We could be watching the implosion of the Democratic Party in real-time. Rigged primaries, railroading through the least popular president/candidate of all time...three times, appointing some other candidate with zero input from voters.... Imagine what it would be like if they appoint such a candidate and they lose spectacularly to the biggest buffoon to ever be president. Honestly I'm not sure if the Democrats could recover from that.

Always was. I seriously doubt Ford even needed to pardon Nixon, TBH. The most that would have happened is the Supreme Court would've made this ruling a few decades earlier.