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Nope.

We are going to have to prosecute a lot of soldiers when this is over

Yeah, the magic thing I want to have is a financially viable approach to center-left local journalism, which can do a lot to build community. I don't have a way to do that though.

You either organize and help fight it, or you end up in it.

Started off as social media posts, then a brief note on Talking Points Memo, then a Philadelphia Inquirer op-ed. Maybe we'll make it to the front page of the NYT shortly after the concentration camps open.

Florida wasn't nearly so right-wing until fairly recently. It doesn't have to stay that way if people are able to come together

Yeah, archive.today came out of gamergate, so there's a very good chance that the owner sees their mission as being to help jumpstart fascism. In a world where the truth is paywalled but the lies are free, becoming more useful on the left might have been a real problem for them.

The problem that web.archive.org and ghostarchive.org both have is that they regularly fail to archive content

They're tightly tied to the administration. This is basically insider trading

Pretty much every dictatorship and absolute monarchy does this.

It's neither self-correcting nor quite as bad as you think. I expect them to try to ignore the results rather than prevent elections from taking place

Most Americans are not interested in what you describe. There is an absolutely huge swing (about 30 percentage points) towards Democrats in recent special elections.

Also, the penalty for a state skipping an election is that they don't get represented in Congress. So it's just fine if Republican-run states dont hold elections but Democratic-leaning ones do

The army isn't big enough to pull that off without killing everybody