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The fact that compromised states like Texas and Florida are pending makes me think this will be a mechanism for right wing fuckery.

Oops, turns out that all of these states controlled by the GOP voted 100% republican with no oversight from the feds. Hand over your EC votes please 🫴

... a Russian plant

Come on man it was right there!

We're gonna start seeing social media style workarounds. Show me papers on wmen and mnor*ties

Well, the British did burn Washington DC once before 🤷‍♀️

They're not going to necessarily be the saviors of democracy but there's actually a pretty clear demarcation between career politicians and career soldiers. There's a reason "oblivious politician forces military to make strategic blunder" is a trope.

Usually their goals align with maintaining US hegemony but much less so when the Commander in Chief is selling the nation to foreign adversaries.

Isn't a large part of the federal workforce veterans? I can't imagine active service members have good feelings about Trump kicking them to the curb

A new party did emerge, about a decade ago. Maga (rebranded as the former GOP)

Yeah its tough... At least you can block ads when browsing and pirate digital media pretty easily 🤷‍♀️

Good point. But at the same time the states control a lot of bureaucracy around day-to-day civilian operations and vital records.

If the state doesn't send birth and death certificates to the IRS, taxing gets a lot harder. They control the registration of corporate entities, and while I'm not an expert on corporate law, I assume they could cause problems restricting access to those.

There's probably some creative, outside the box economic resistance as well that I don't know enough to guess at. For example, taxes/tolls/fines targeting government vehicles? Cutting or up-charging state power/utilities to customs offices?

We have no neighbors. Only an unruly 51st tundra state and a hoard of alien barbarians being held at bay by the ~~Night's Watch~~ ICE

OH THANK GOD they finally stopped exploiting me. Let me just catch my breath here and oh GOD OH FU--

Total collapse might not be required for real, tangible change. Collective action is a unifying force, and it would remind everyone top to bottom that the house of cards is in fact collapsible and not an inevitable behemoth under its own inertia.

You could argue that even with reforms the underpinning economic system remains as problematic as ever. But building that collective support, reminding poor voters that they're not temporarily embarrassed billionaires, adds more opposition to it than support.