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Twitter is working fine, "blackouts" aren't what they used to be. DDOS attacks aren't really hacking, and would barely interrupt services at the level today's "anonymous" has access to.
People claiming to be anonymous hackers very slightly inconvenience whoever's still on Twitter.
I'm no fan of Musk, but something more powerful needs to be done.
Voting. Voting could have been done. I know it sounds trite and overly simplistic, but that's the power We The People have, as set up in the founding of our country. We just have to use it...
How many people sat out in 2024, as everyone politically-engaged screamed that a Trump administration would be bad for the economy, bad for Palestinians, bad for Ukrainians, and bad for America (because it might literally elect a fascist dictator who will enact Project 2025 and refuse to give up their power)? Several thousand? That sounds reasonable, right? Maybe up to hundreds of thousands? Maybe even a million people...? No. 90 million people who were eligible to vote in the presidential election didn't vote by mail, ignored the election drop boxes, and sat at home on Election Day.
That's enough to beat any entrenched political coalition opposed to progress. That's not some "pie in the sky" fantasy, we literally had the numbers to accomplish every single political agenda that actually helps working Americans:
#If "Did Not Vote" was a candidate:
I say this all without an ounce of schadenfreude. I genuinely don't want to hurt the faces of the people who voted for the leopards, not least of all because we all suffer along with them. I will keep shouting this point because we have to do better in the future. Voting isn't always fun, but it's the first and most powerful defense against a wannabe dictator like Trump or Musk. I literally don't care how "not excited" you are about the candidate that doesn't want to tear the US apart, you need to vote, and vote against fascism. That's our only hope going forward...
Great! Now all you need is a candidate who runs on that.
2024 was the biggest decline in votership (relative to the previous election: eg, participation) of the previous 40 years.
Democrats:
Don't let great be the enemy of good
Do you want to win?
Well, we're certainly not winning now.
That should tell you something.
Narrator: It didn't.
Billionaires will never allow you to vote away their power.
Never
I guess we should actually try it first before succumbing to defeatism in advance, no? There's a lot more of us than there is of them... What is it people say about the 4 Boxes to be used in defense of Liberty:
"Please use in that order."
(That's a quote from Frederick Douglas)
You are here.
Oh? Did people show up to vote when we told them how important it was? No? Hmm, then I guess we didn't actually try the ballot box yet...
I guess you'll just have to vote harder champ! I'm sure if you can just convince everyone to vote harder enough, this time, bloviating about how smart you need to be to engage in "strategic voting", even when that strategy has been demonstrated to fail, it'll be different this time! Its not you or the Democrats that need to change. No. It could never be that.
Any time now. Any time.
Exactly. We've never actually used our voting privileges. Not really.
Whenever I hear the argument that voting doesn't do anything, I cringe.
When people show up (not just for presidential elections), shit gets done.
But Muricans are lazy and expect others to do the work for them
Australia has mandatory voting and the mining industry still owns this country.
Just because America makes it cheap to buy an election doesn't mean it could ever be unaffordable.
Did you know mining billionaires is a great way to recover stolen power and resources?
Making a note of this for a theoretical speedrun...
It’s strange how there’s a north/south divide there.