Quo Vadis GOP?

[garbon]

I also learned that Laura Loomer has been deleting her tweets as she had until recently been very critical of Charlie Kirk.

I read a few people have been fired already. What happened to "why can't people take a joke" the right loves to say.

It isn't cancel culture when they do it. Just basic decency.

[garbon]

I read a few people have been fired already. What happened to "why can't people take a joke" the right loves to say.

I'm seeing this one about a lot.
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I've no idea how I'm supposed to understand that.

[HVC]

Far lefties are smarter then normal lefties?

[Sheilbh]

Saw the Yankees do a minutes silence which seems a bit weird, no?

Sad that he was killed, especially for his young family and wrong and bad for society. But some of this stuff seems a bit Dianafied and hysterical.

[garbon]

Saw the Yankees do a minutes silence which seems a bit weird, no?

Sad that he was killed, especially for his young family and wrong and bad for society. But some of this stuff seems a bit Dianafied and hysterical.

It is a psychodrama

[HVC]

Saw the Yankees do a minutes silence which seems a bit weird, no?

Sad that he was killed, especially for his young family and wrong and bad for society. But some of this stuff seems a bit Dianafied and hysterical.

It's weird. Looking him up after he died (some of his comments are humoursly morbid when read after the fact) he appeared to be just your run of the mill racist gun nut right wing agitator. Even his college tours are just him making cheap points against dumb kids. When he faces actual competition he gets plastered. My favorite involved a dolphin fetus, but that might have been the edit. No idea how he became the voice of the young right or why he deserves this posthumous reverence.

[Admiral Yi]

Saw the Yankees do a minutes silence which seems a bit weird, no?

Sad that he was killed, especially for his young family and wrong and bad for society. But some of this stuff seems a bit Dianafied and hysterical.

bizarre

[Oexmelin]

A lot of university campuses had their flags at half mast.

University campuses. For the guy who set up the "Professors' Watchlist".

Your institutions are peopled with cowardly, craven, complacent individuals. Or people who are simply corrupt, ambitious, or content with authoritarianism. It's your job to strengthen the resolve of the first, or get the second out of your institutions. Don't wait for elections. Don't wait for institutional wheels to save you. Don't wait for the courts. Don't wait for mythical new leaders to emerge magically.

[grumbler]

I see a lot of flags at half-mast here in rural Virginia.

[Oexmelin]

I am sure. The right has found a martyr. The initial stories about the murderer being a guy from the left will stick, because it's too convenient this way. Don't be cowed into silence by this.

[Razgovory]

What actual evidence do we have the killer was Groyper?

[Razgovory]

A lot of university campuses had their flags at half mast.

University campuses. For the guy who set up the "Professors' Watchlist".

Your institutions are peopled with cowardly, craven, complacent individuals. Or people who are simply corrupt, ambitious, or content with authoritarianism. It's your job to strengthen the resolve of the first, or get the second out of your institutions. Don't wait for elections. Don't wait for institutional wheels to save you. Don't wait for the courts. Don't wait for mythical new leaders to emerge magically.

Of course, they don't want to be cancelled.  The institutions that were frightened of being canceled by the left are now frightened by the right.   You didn't really think they was on your side, did you? 

[Jacob]

I see a lot of flags at half-mast here in rural Virginia.

Soon there'll be reports of miracles happening.

[Josquius]

Far lefties are smarter then normal lefties?

Depends how much you agree with their assessment that "free speech" is controlled by the far right and you really need to protect yourself online.
It's hyperbole but I can get the point.

[Jacob]

A lot of university campuses had their flags at half mast.

University campuses. For the guy who set up the "Professors' Watchlist".

Your institutions are peopled with cowardly, craven, complacent individuals. Or people who are simply corrupt, ambitious, or content with authoritarianism. It's your job to strengthen the resolve of the first, or get the second out of your institutions. Don't wait for elections. Don't wait for institutional wheels to save you. Don't wait for the courts. Don't wait for mythical new leaders to emerge magically.

It certainly seems like the odds of some heroes sweeping in and fixing everything, or of institutions and norms reasserting themselves on their to save the day are low.

The reactionary right has spent decades building ideological infrastructure and investing in throwing sand in the gears of liberal democracy - making it harder for its institutions to operate.  I think your message is correct - the best way to resist is to do the same. Put effort into making it tedious and more challenging for the reactionary right to exert its power where you can. Build up and support spaces where liberal values and participatory democracy can flourish, even if its on a small scale.

This looks like it's going to be a long haul, but we still have choices to make and agency.