Agreed; but, to be fair, "leave their post" was one of the things the person homesweethomeMrL was responding to said absolutely no one was apparently doing.
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which includes the Nazi strategy of Blitzkrieg
I mean, that was a Nazi war strategy, not how they consolidated power.
The difference is that Nazis didn’t care that the citizens might oppose them, because they were fully prepared from the beginning to ruthlessly eliminate all opposition by any means necessary.
Sure but they absolutely understood that necessitated plausible deniability; every further reach of power had a cover. There's a reason the suspending of civil liberties only jumped to effect under the cover of the Reichstag fire (and Hitler finally moving to remove Röhm was to appease army and business leaders, because he needed their support) or that Hitler waited until Hindenburg passed before finally assuming complete power.
I'm not too familiar with his record before running for the Senate, I'm afraid, but, presuming it was sufficiently different that people had wanted to vote for him and no one had been sounding the alarm, part of me wonders if something had happenned when he had his stroke.
It's, obviously, not a given but brain damage can cause personality changes. I have very little evidence beyond speculation but I do wonder, from time to time.
I've been telling my husband, since he won, that he's been given a near perfect opportunity for a fascist takeover (his horrendous first term whitewashed, more popularity than ever, more or less unchecked power in the current system) and he's basically been pissing it away (though I don't want to underpresume his capability at failing upward…).
A smart autocrat would have slowly broken norms while justifying himself by bending current rules; he's gone straight to crashing the economy and smashing expectations people relied on faster than than anyone can keep track. Those who are in favor are denied plausible deniability that nothing has changed and those who're hurting so bad they may not've cared can't take hope that he's making their lives better.
It's incredible.
Entirely agreed.
Is it naïveté, anymore, if we keep having to reiterate this fundamental facet of our political structure going on 3 decades, now?
This is the answer.
For whatever complaints one might have about Discord (and they are legion), it does a really good job of packing a bunch of different functionality in one place and with a UI that's super easy to grasp and understand what does what and how that requires very little foreknowledge of what the thing is or its underlying mechanisms.
If I am completely new and pretty blank of what it is, Discord's pretty good at me being able to catch up quickly; it's got a good UI and, following that, functionality for a bunch of things related to communication. And, if I need a quick solution that just gets me going…that's gonna be pretty painless.
Yeah; of course. Ze's referencing supporting Palestine (as the watermelon became more widely recognized as a symbol for them due to recent events).
For a second, I read your fruit predilection literally and was like, "Is…watermelon controversial, now? Are they [the people who banned you] cartoonishly racist?"
I follow you, now; sucks but expected…
There's a reason MLK called us the “most racist city in America“!
😞…
Ah! Right you are; I misread.