Trump’s winning electoral coalition couldn’t quite make it through the season of goodwill.
  • Carmakazi@lemmy.world
    551·
    5 months ago

    I know we’re all itching for some good news but this is just a Twitter spat, hardly an AlL OuT cIviL wAr.

    I’ll believe it when they start tangibly sabotaging each other. They have a tendency to fall in line in practice.

    • LeadersAtWork@lemmy.world
      141·
      5 months ago

      They fall in line when they have a common, reachable enemy. As another user recently said, which I believe was wise. - paraphrased: The only reason they’re fighting is because we haven’t made ourselves a target.

      • Carrolade@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        5 months ago

        Let’s not ignore that there’s a real, policy-based disagreement here. Tech companies like to be able to import top talent from wherever they can get it (and are generally correct that this is overall beneficial), while white nationalists are dead set against the idea, as it strikes directly against the very core of their values.

        It’s a legit disagreement, and pretty foundational.

        That said, I do overall agree that we’re kinda beaten at the moment, and too busy licking our wounds and regrouping to care that much about this.

        • LeadersAtWork@lemmy.world
          2·
          5 months ago

          It isn’t that we aren’t targets, only that we aren’t currently making ourselves immediately targetable. That said, we do need to brush off our fairly minor defeatism and deal immediately with the slowly encroaching apathy. Yes, the cult idiots will get theirs as they will be a majority negatively impacted moving forward, however we do need to collectively step up constantly.

          I truly believe we can make it the two years necessary to set in a rather sizable doorstop. We just need to work together on attainable goals.

    • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      5 months ago

      Remember how the old Soviet Union had leadership which was very opaque, and there were a whole class of “Kremlinologists” who would figure out who was in favor by how closely they were standing to the Soviet Premier in photographs of public events?

      This is similar, we can figure out who is close to our new Prime Minister by how he treats them on Twitter. “X-ologists”? It’s dumb, but so is everything in this timeline.