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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade  1mo ago (text post) 29 thread views #307315

Bard spotting on Bluesky 11 October 2024 :marseyrandom:

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The Serfs (@theserfstv.bsky.social):

Appealing to no one while appealing to everyone

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Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

It's politics. Advisors hold no decision making power, are a source of intel, having a Republican sit on a council defeats the "They hate all Republicans and are separatist extremists" rhetoric - for certain audiences - and all the stuff about keeping friends close and enemies closer.

It's shrewd.

Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Whether it matters is a different thing

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Alceste (@acroteleutic.bsky.social):

it absolutely does none of that

Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

OK. If you decide to explain why you believe that, I'll be happy to listen. But if your position is "Nuh-uh", well, I was already aware that people disagree with my opinions.

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Odeatha (@odessasteppes.bsky.social):

"This argument isn't logical, therefore we will stop using it." --Literally no republican ever

Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Sadly prevalent.

I do think there will be Republicans who respond to other pressures than logic.

Odeatha (@odessasteppes.bsky.social):

There's only one pressure republicans respond to, and the dems aren't willing to use it.

Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I dropped into the wikipedia article for the Dolchstoßlegende of Nazi Germany last night. It mentioned that the Nazis were motivated by a sense of shame and failure. I think that is what motivates their base, and money motivates their politicians.

Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

My experience of being harassed, threatened, and attacked by republicans / transphobes / white supremacists showed me that they're very motivated by shame. They feel ashamed, and want to be rescued from that shame.

Odeatha (@odessasteppes.bsky.social):

I don't want to rescue them anymore. I'm done with compassion.

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Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

rather, I think that it's important that any of them who do choose to jump ship out of the MAGA terrorist movement, have lifelines thrown to them, so that whatever power and influence they might retain, be applied to fixing the world, rather than burning it down

Hope springs eternal

Odeatha (@odessasteppes.bsky.social):

I'd rather people who are at best fascists who lost their nerve have no power and influence left at all.

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The Serfs (@theserfstv.bsky.social):

You can't spend half a campaign talking about Project 2025 being a blueprint for fascism and then also that you want to work with that side.

Republicans already call her a communist dictator and the same strategy didn't work for Hillary when she tried it.

Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

That's true.

What's also true is that the Republican party - long (in)famous for being a monolith,

Maybe is ceasing to be a monolith.

And opening the door to that possibility is shrewd.

The Heck Curve (@thehellcurve.bsky.social):

The base is not going back to serious businessman candidates.

Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

The Tea / MAGA party base isn't. Maybe some of the people who own businesses and want tax breaks for them, and can walk away from open Nazism, might go back to serious businessman candidates.

A fractured Republican party is the first step to prying their hateful claws out of government.

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The Heck Curve (@thehellcurve.bsky.social):

There aren't enough "normal" Republicans for this strategy to work. The structure gives them electoral advantages so peeling off a handful of voters does nothing. Plus these "normal" Republicans stole an election and packed the courts and killed hundreds of thousands. They're all the enemy.

The Heck Curve (@thehellcurve.bsky.social):

America without a Republican Party is a far better America. You don't need two parties the Democrats already contain most of the entire spectrum of sane political thought.

Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I would like an America where Republicans don't have power over me. And as the Buddha once said, true change comes from within.

I also think we need more than two parties, but the infrastructure shapes things so that only two parties are viable nationally.

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