Rebellions are built on hope.

Hope alone isn’t enough, but nobody shows up to fight without hope.

It might have been, but it really wasn’t.

It wasn’t even that they wanted to pay higher taxes. The Stamp and Tea Acts actually LOWERED the taxes. But it was incredibly easy to get around paying the taxes previously. So what Parliament did was say, “guys, you have to actually start paying the taxes, but we’ll make them lower as a compromise.”

That’s why the American elites revolted.

Could you imagine what language would look like 10-15 years from now if this actually took off.

Like, think of how ubiquitous stuff like ‘unalive’ or ‘seggs’ has become after just a few years trying to avoid algorithmic censors. Now imagine that for 5 years most people all over the internet were just inserting random phrases into their sentences. I have no idea where that would go, but it would make our colloquial language absolutely wild.

You do know the DNC doesn’t run presidential campaigns, right? They funnel money to the campaign, but the campaigns are run by campaign managers hired by the candidates.

If the fascists truly believed your votes don’t/won’t count in the future, they wouldn’t be working so hard to take away voting rights.

I think we’re dangerously close to a point where voting won’t matter, but we’re not there yet. Look at the Wisconsin Supreme Court race a few weeks ago. Elon Musk got involved and personally spent more than $25 million to try to buy the race. He was directly paying off voters to vote for the Republican. There was nearly $100 million spent on the race, an overwhelming majority of which was spent by/for the Republican.

Yet the Democrat won with like 10 percentage points more of the vote. She blew the Musk funded fascist out of the water. It wasn’t even close.

If voting really didn’t matter at all, do you really think that would have been the outcome?

If voting really didn’t matter at all, would they be actively trying to strip voting rights away from women right now?

Don’t fall for the fascist propaganda. Voting still matters. It’s not the only thing that matters. We should all be way more engaged in politics than merely voting. But voting still matters, too.

We’re 2.5-3 years away from the primary race even starting, and 3+ years away from the convention. This poll means absolutely nothing at this point.

Also told all yall we need progressives to split from DNC and form a fresh 3rd party bruh.

This is a recipe to ensure Republicans fully sweep every election and progressives are ignored even more than they already are. American politics are so incredibly broken, but isolating yourself by breaking off into a party that has 0 chance of ever winning anything isn’t going to fix anything.

You are really just completely missing the point here. Motivating people to get out and join me in the streets is exactly what all of this is about.

while ignoring the institution violating the prisoners constitutional rights

Who ever said anything about ignoring anything?

Freeing one guy is the start. It proves that getting sent to these concentration camps isn’t a one-way ticket. And it gives him the opportunity to go public with the conditions there and how he was treated. That’s going to motivate people organizing a hell of a lot more than a Senator giving a speech at a rally ever would.

Why are you pretending like this is about just saving one guy?

I feel like you’re trying to justify your own in action through declaring this meaningful action. Does that resonate with you?

No, that doesn’t resonate with me in the slightest. I feel like you’re trying to justify your own inaction by pretending like a Senator sitting in his office writing legislation nobody will ever read has some kind of impact on anything.

I never said it would stop anything. But it’s a hell of a lot more than sitting at home writing legislation that will never get a vote and pretending like politics as usual is how anything works anymore.

Trump lashed out in the same way he does against everyone who does something he doesn’t like and you take that as proof he’s some kind of mastermind behind everything? Man, do you not understand Trump at all.

First, I said Representatives and Senators. There are 260 Democrats in Congress (well, 258 +2 independent who caucus with Dems), not 45. But that’s beside the point. What are they doing for us in Congress right now? Absolutely nothing. Hell, a bunch of Dem Senators are acting like Vichy collaborationists helping the fascists confirm appointments and pass their CR. They’re actively working against us by just sitting in Congress.

But even that’s beside the point. They’re not going to arrest or kill a bunch of sitting US members of Congress. Even just saying ‘no’ to 1 of them was such a bad look that they completely folded and, for the fist time ever, let someone out of CECOT, even just temporarily. They’ve NEVER let anyone out before, and Van Hollen just showing up on his own scared them enough to crack.

Why do you think an even greater number would scare them less?

That didn’t happen when just 1 Senator went and didn’t live stream his visit. If they really wanted to, they could have claimed he did something violent or something. There’d have been no way to prove otherwise. And he was able to get them to crack just by holding a press conference. The bad PR from 1 guy getting denied scared them so much that they let him meet Abrego Garcia.

So why do you think they’d do that if there was a large group and the entire thing was being live streamed?

…in Venezuela? One of the 2 countries in the western hemisphere we don’t have diplomatic relations with? A country Trump tried to do a violent coup in last time he was in power? You think they’re going to build a concentration camp for Trump and start taking prisoners?

You have no idea what the fuck you’re talking about, and it really shows.

I’m not talking about just getting a picture. And you think Republicans will resign because…why? Because we asked them to? Why would they? This is all exactly what they want.

I’m 39 years old, so try again.

And how will that accomplish more than his trip to El Salvador did?

There is no chance in hell that all 300+ Republican Congress people are in on this grift.

This is a rather naive understanding of American politics. Yes, they’re all in on it. Stopping hoping for the nice Republicans. They don’t exist. They’re all fascists.

Your suggestion is to keep trying to appeal to the better nature of Republicans. That’s exactly what the Democrats have been doing for the past decade. Hell, it’s what they’ve been doing since 2009. It doesn’t work. They don’t have a better nature. They want the fascism.

There is NOTHING Democrats can do in Congress. Trying to protest to Republican politicians directly isn’t going to get them to change their minds. Van Hollen did more in a single trip to El Salvador to resist the fascists than anyone has done in Congress in 10+ years.

What is your suggestion? Van Hollen got them to crack just by holding a press conference. I’m suggesting they continue this line of attack, but to a greater magnitude.

Get a list of everyone that’s been sent down there and get every Democrat who represents all 300+ of them in Congress, every single Democratic Representative and Senator from their states/districts. All of them go down and insist on seeing all of their constituents. Do what Van Hollen did, but on a larger scale.

What’s your suggestion? Stay at home and try the same thing they’ve been doing for the past decade?