The other iron law with Trump is to watch what he does, don’t listen to what he says. Language, for Trump, serves a function analogous to the slimy black ink emitted by those other pale, shapeless creatures, the giant squids.

They were reminded that big farms and hotel chains are owned by rich people.

They’re too stupid to know how much they’re being played.

You’ll hear this take from the liberals in the PNW too.

They probably believe that the people of Gaza chose Hamas to exploit them.

If you don’t go, then find other ways to resist.

This might give you some ideas:

https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/the-art-of-simple-sabotage/

Melanoma needs an electron microscope to give him a handie!

It’s not really a handie if you’re using tweezers.

Putin is a teetotaller.

Never trust a Russian who doesn’t drink.

Yeah, when Bush Jr was going in aircraft carriers as photo-ops, he was rightly ridiculed for it. This is far worse.

He didn’t have the strength to get very many people to show up to his boring exercise in displaying phallic symbols. At least 20 times as many people turned out for No Kings.

And no dickless-tators either!

They don’t use words to convey meaning or to express thought. Their words are chaff that they emit as one of many tactics to get what they want. So there’s no reason to reason with them. It’s not a debate, it’s a power grab.

OK, you carry on attempting to deal with fascism using sweet reason and compliance in advance. Let us know how that goes.

Regarding the Troubles, it was a low-level civil war with the military involved with very limited rules of engagement. The UK military essentially served a police function, though it was institutionally biased in favor of the Unionists. There was no bombing, no artillery fire, none of that (though there were targeted assassinations, largely done by the UVF based on intel fed to them by the UK military). The UK establishment’s goal was to contain the problem, not to eliminate it. The Good Friday accord came after a generation-long stalemate. So that’s probably not a meaningful model of what might happen in the US.

And people-power revolutions have occurred in many countries in the world, often without much violence (except for some perpetrated by the authoritarian states against their citizens, and even those tend to be limited). Many have succeeded. On the other hand, there have also been popular movements that have failed (for example, most of the Arab Spring revolutions). Even so, there is no reason to assume that resistance would inevitably lead to a Civil War 2.0 scenario. That would be a worst case; and considering that the pro-dictatorship faction is at most 40% of the population, and largely from the most economically irrelevant parts of the country, the most they could reasonably achieve would be unstable minority rule.

Or trad media is doing what it always does, minimizing progressive turnout and exaggerating right-wing numbers.

It’ll be disappointed when it gets here.

This is a tough one for me: I’m opposed to femicide, but I only wish the absolute worst on influencers.

My last employer had a policy of giving paid leave for National Guard duty. Up to two weeks. After that, maybe you can supplement your income by stealing wallets off some protestors.

I’m not scared of them but I utterly despise those sanctimonious, hypocritical, racist sons of bitches.

Defending our freedom to get beaten and tear-gassed.

Trump is illiterate and what passes for US history with him is another marketing spiel to provide an excuse for his corrupt dealings and lust for power.

So he’s too stupid to know about the royal “we.”

That figures.

Suicide is always an option.