Growing rapidly since 2016, the group jumped from about 6,500 members in 2014 (with a median age of sixty-eight) to over one hundred thousand members (with a median age of about thirty-three) in 2026.

Could this be the 3rd party America so desperately needs? They still have this shitty voting system that always favors the 2 biggest, but still, could this be the first step towards a better democracy?

Oh but the article rebukes me:

Answering these questions requires resisting two temptations that have shaped much of the commentary on DSA. The first is triumphalism, the assumption that the organization’s growth is the leading edge of an irreversible socialist revival and that its trajectory can only continue upward. The second is the mirror image of this, a declinism that reads each of the group’s many internal crises as the beginning of the end. Both err in the same way: they mistake the story of a single organization for that of a whole political conjuncture. DSA’s rise cannot be understood apart from the institutional structure of American electoral politics, the specific sequence of events that revived the American left after 2008, and the strategic choices the organization has made in response to both.

And how did we (it’s not only France) get there? Neo-fucking-liberalism. Cronyism. Legal corruption.

That’s what needs to Change. Who has that in their political program? The neofascists just say it but it’s noise to distract from the above. Which is why they’re getting paid by industrialists and foreign actors that want to destabilise us.

Will the dissatisfied masses ever realise that? I think we can help them.

So who really has Change in their political program? That’s who we need to boost.

Seriously I’m so sick of hearing this shit. It’s been the same ever since practically every EU country ate the austerity narrative and the new right began to rise.

Thanks. OPs should do that anyhow.

It stands to reason that attacking a few servers won’t stop all of Russia’s hybrid warfare, but it also stands to reason that there is some effect.

In any case, I hope Ukraine continues to succesfully attack (hopefully without civilian casualties) Russian infrastructure. We all benefit from that.

Lol. Yeah, of course.

Poor Brits.

OK I stand corrected.

But the fear of being murdered is quasi built into the whole concept.

Come to think of it, Trump might be too stupid for even that.

Haha, here too. Write a song about it. Actually, there must already be one.

The bad ending is quasi built into dictatorship.

What happens along the way though, or how soon does it come.

The saddest thing: he’s still better than Trump.

Thanks for sharing.

Re your first quote:

I wish (these) men would talk about their sexuality a bit more openly. The need for relief. The still widespread tabooing of masturbation, esp. when a woman is present. I believe it would help them understand that what they’re doing is wrong - while relief is still possible.

Thanks, will fix. FWIW, it works as is was in Piefed.

Victim blaming. I have seen it happening.

I believe he brokered peace between Russia and Ukraine just as many times.

Sheesh, Norway, just invent a Nubel or Nobbel price already, grant it to The Don every year, and be done with the harassment.

^/s

TBF (should we be fair to them? They aren’t fair to us) this is a patchwork, not a single conversation, but all individual statements could’ve come from just one person.

The point is - at least that’s how I see it - all social posturing from fascists is just that. They don’t care about other people, or people as a whole. What they really want is perfectly divided in and out groups, with them being in the in group. Freedoms and advantages that only apply to them and repression that only applies to the out group.

The spade does not like being called a spade.

There’s a pretty good video about that.

He left Xhitter and posts on his own website now (probably elsewhere too) and I’m seeing him semi-regularly in the fediverse.

Yeah, this one’s pretty old but still timely.

Trust the woowoo people to have 0 consistency and even less math.

Overall costs? I believe it would. But it’s entirely possible that he manages to blind them temporarily with lower fuel prices.

Easier to list the things that are NOT really fucked under the Trump admin.

Honestly, that’s much less than the last time somebody wrote that.

But the real percentage we will learn when election results come in.