That’s a good point, I really can’t argue.

Republicans now face a dilemma: Musk brings cash but may damage their brand.

LOL. Their otherwise shining, untarnished brand.

It’s a shame Trump supporters won’t consume anything that doesn’t feed their confirmation bias.

I kinda feel like you missed the point.

Due to events since then - namely Cory Booker - if you have any kind of regular dialogue with those folks that you’d be comfortable sharing, I’d love to know if it penetrated at all in your opinion.

I guess when it finally overlapped with her personal experience Anna Paulina Luna decided to have a conscience.

This made me feel good in a way that the news hasn’t in a long time.

My first reaction was “is that even legal?”

And then my second reaction was it doesn’t really matter with Trump there:

I’d much rather have been wrong and laughed at later than to be right about what’s on the horizon.

Dude, I firmly believe that if we appear wrong later, it means that things happened openly or behind the scenes that stopped it, not that we were wrong.

I would sincerely like to see another post from you if/when you cross that line where even the die hards (or for that matter even the rank and file Rs) start to think something smells.

but they defend it, deflect, and try to gaslight.

This is a huge part of why I just don’t engage. I can handle protracted, passionate disagreement. I can’t handle deflections, false equivalences and gaslighting. I cannot deal with that kind of thing like a rational adult, and then I get accused of being angry due to disagreement when it’s nothing of the sort.

That’s a great point and much better thought out than my own! 💯

Based on what we’ve seen so far, I really think they’ll just use the men’s criteria.

Ironically, when I was in I thought it was really unfair that the women could openly grow long hair and just tuck it under their cover and the men could not.

I’m ashamed to say that back then I took it as an example of women wanting special treatment, when I’m sure in retrospect that it was nothing of the sort.

Depending on topic, they are either OK with it, that I’m over reacting (they are only putting criminals in those camps), or believe any evidence not from the sources you might expect is fake.

And honestly, I don’t push at all, because I’m going to change zero minds and I’ve got enough cortisol in my life already. I prefer to just pretend those people aren’t in my circle when I can.

Step 1: Dramatically restrict who is allowed to volunteer for our volunteer miitary.

Step 2: Bemoan that the US no longer has a standing military large enough to support its interests.

Step 3: Here comes the draft again.

Step 4: Wait a bit and all your undesirables age out or are driven out of the military.

Step 5: Well I’m not sure about this one, but you’ve got a big army full of the only people you really want to have any power, personal autonomy, or decent standard of living anyway; I’m sure you can find something to do with it.

Or these vibes…

Not only that - who tries to be so neat with an Anarchy symbol? No one who has ever drawn one before.

The stencil in OP is giving me similar vibes, but WTH do I know?

But knowing Republicans they probably did it themselves to play the victim

Yep, these vibes for sure. That’s a fucking nice stencil they got there.

https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/brooklyn-center-man-sentenced-hoax-political-attack/89-70cf7dc2-3212-4422-8527-5999cd35c388

This one has pics of the “vandalism”:

https://www.startribune.com/police-suspected-arson-levels-garage-at-home-with-trump-2020-flags/572507431

I fear it will be like anti vaxxers dying on a ventilator during covid. By the time they realize that they did in fact fuck up and the magnitude of said fuckup, they’ll have metaphorical tubes in their throat and it will be too late for it to matter.

It’s already too late for it to matter. At the first whimpering of complaints from some tiny minority of Republican voters they just stopped showing up to their own town halls.

Every R in an elected position is complicit at best and full throated supporting at worst (and for that matter so is every R in my circle of family and friends - no surprise given his 92% favorability rating with Republicans), and elected R representatives no longer even care about the opinions of their base unless they are from the ones still drinking the flavor aid.

I don’t think my decision to never interact voluntarily with a Republican again is going to impact the fate of the world much.

https://www.project2025.observer/

Thing is, we’re all going to burn together. The one bright spot in the coming years will be that moment when maga realizes they are going down along with everyone they wanted him to hurt.

It won’t fix everything, but that schadenfreude will keep me warm in my final moments.