“The future ain’t what it used to be.”
-Yogi Berra
Fighting back is the only thing that works. Look at 2020. Fighting back effectively kept the number of Trump W’s in that time in the single digits.
The absolute cowardice and cuckoldry the Democrats have shown isn’t a path to stopping fascism. Time to dust off your gear from 2019 folks.
It was meant to be this way.
They are litterally following a WWF script
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never has, never will.
Someday we’ll be able to get gif tattoos and I’m getting this one.
You can literally taste the schadenfruede in the air today.
I think its largely psychological/ strategic.
Show you can strike the bridge, you show the enemy they can be struck, they need to dedicate more resources to defending it.
Also, actively destroying the bridge would be a huge knock to Putin’s ability to maintain appearances.
Finally, actually disrupting the bridge would be good tactically. But thats proving harder to do. This is the third attempt?
probably wanted to see the results of it before launching any long range strikes on the bridge
Maybe get them to show their hand with regards to the repair resources/ facilities.
War should be costly and terrible
So that only the most powerful and elite can engage in a monopoly of violence eh? I’m far more concerned about a well funded local police agency thinking they need a bearcat, or a global power thinking they need a bomb that can split the earth in half than a neighbor with a drone and a 3d printer.
You’ve got it all wrong. The dissolution of the high technology, grand tower approach to war fighting is a good thing.
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ftfy
emergency uncontrollable disassembly
Here I’m DM"ing you something. Its very personal, but I want to share it with you and I made it using Deepsite (in part).
https://tmpweb.net/nmS9uRBAENhQ/
Above is what I can do with deepsite by pasting in the first page of your lemmy profile and the prompt:
“This is double_quack, a lemmy user on Lemmy, a new social media platform. Create a cool profile page in a style that they’ll like based on the front page of their lemmy account (pasted in a ctrl + a, ctrl + c, ctrl + v of your profile).”
It not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but like, its not a bad starting point.
if you want to try it: https://huggingface.co/spaces/enzostvs/deepsite
Yeah idk. I did some work with deepseek early on. I wasn’t impressed.
HOWEVER…
Some other things they’ve developed like deepsite, holy shit impressive.
inb4 NERV
How did the votes fall?
This guy doesn’t boing fish.
No. The abolished it. They didn’t reform it. They abolished it.
But the moment you go around saying “abolish the police”, you’re not talking about reforms, or at least that’s not what most people are going to hear.
Stop it.
Don’t both misinterpret what I said and then put words I didn’t put down into my mouth. If your balls shrink into your chest when you hear “abolish the police”, thats a you problem. Likewise, if you are basing your decision making on “what most people want to hear”, you probably are both a) not an effective strategist, and even further b) not a very good person.
Abolish the police. If you can’t do that, de-fund them. Tip-toeing around the sensitivities of a deeply immoral people isn’t a strategy that gets results. It only gets you halfway to no-where.
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yes.
Democrats, even in the minority, were highly effective at stopping Trump from getting almost anything done legislatively, and also were effective somewhat at curtailing his executive overreach.
A major component of that was how they embraced the left, which was mostly focused on BLM, as a source of outside power. The inside outside power game can be highly effective when both parties understand their roles.
2025 and Schumer and Jefferies decided on the strategy of curl up and die, after basically denying the base of the party a place at the podium last convention. There are still some good Democrats, but the rest need to embrace their base.