Put it to better use

Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale
a tale of a fateful trip,
that started from this USVI port,
aboard this tiny plane.
The mate was a orange New York man,
the Skipper creepy and sick,
five passengers took flight that day,
for a three hour flight,
a three hour flight.

NegativeNull@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

Bring out your Epstein Files

NegativeNull@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

This actually sums up pretty nicely the rant that Anand has in this piece. Your war on terrorism analogy is absolutely perfect in this situation as well.

Cory Doctorow just published a piece MAGA crackup

… Like all successful political campaigns, Trumpism is a coalition. Coalitions form when groups of people set aside their disagreements and join together. Virtually every important political change is downstream of a coalition.

The easiest kind of coalition to form is an oppositional one, where groups agree on what they don’t want, without agreeing on what they do want. Think, for example, of the Andrea Dworkin wing of the feminist movement making common cause with Jerry Falwell to oppose pornography. Obviously, these people have a completely irreconcilable goals for what they want, but when it comes to porn, it’s easy for them to agree on what they don’t want.

That’s fine when you’re waging the campaign against something, but if you happen to win that campaign, you’re in trouble. That’s when the fight starts over who will get their way. That’s the moment when winning coalitions become bitterly divided