Only one danger could have jeopardized this development – if our adversaries had understood its principle, established a clear understanding of our ideas, and not offered any resistance. Or, alternatively, if they had from the first day annihilated with the utmost brutality the nucleus of our new movement.

They could have fought then, we can fight now. It’s getting a little late in the game, but i do not think it is too late.

It sucks how much people are ignoring this.

Getting sent to the camps might stop them.

This practice of appointing Republicans to critical positions to demonstrate bipartisanship has got to stop. (If the Dems ever get another chance, at least)

'The voters are going to reject him and then we don’t have to go through all this messy business if prosecution."

It’s the moral elevation of inaction for its own sake above action for any reason.

Honestly, this whole thing has been a fuck up.

That is the only lesson they are ever capable of winning. If they win, it’s because they were like the Republicans so they should be more like the Republicans. If they lose, ti’s because they weren’t like the Republicans enough.

The Democratic base, and i say this as someone who willingly voted straight D ticket and has for a long time, keeps trying to kick the football and the Democratic Party keeps yanking it back at the last second. Every time.

$0.80, something like that.

Akumetsu.

When it comes down to it, when they’re forced to take a side, the centrists will always side with the fascists over the Left. We’ve seen that happen consistently.

Walz was great. They put him on a leash, though. Remember when he was going around calling the Republicans “weird” and they were freaking out about it?

(Edit: They’re STILL not over this btw, Benny-boy “dry wife” Shapiro made a tweet after the election that went something like “We proved we’re the normal ones after all”.)

The strategy is “Never Play Defense”.

They know what’s going on, they know what they’re doing. They just don’t care, they like Trump they just can’t argue their case and don’t care to.

Release! The! Tapes!

Come on, do it. It could have a real impact.

Got any recommendations?

He knows what he’s doing.

You’re right, the goal of getting to the moon and scale of the effort was much bigger than putting satellites into space, even if they’ve put a lot of satellites into space. They had to invent crewed rockets. Nobody knew how to take an explosion and put a human person on top of it and surf that up to space, then people figured out how. Without that work, SpaceX (and friends) would not exist now.

I’d measure it by number of objectives completed.

How many commercial space flight programs landed on the moon? SpaceX was founded in 2002, over two decades ago. It had decades of public engineering data and knowledge to build on. In 1957, Sputnik made it to space, the first artificial satellite in the history of Earth. In 1969, humans landed on the moon.

I don’t want to encourage paranoia here but “off” does not mean “off”. Modern phones are almost never actually “powered down”. If you’re paranoid, turning your phone off is not enough. Leave it behind.

(Also a gap in your phone’s location history can also be used against you, fwiw.)

“The fourth amendment means what we say it means” – SCOTUS, probably.