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Keep. Fighting.

It’s working.

At long last, it’s working.
Don’t settle for symbolic victories. What’s happening is that Americans are waking up to the fact they have power. We have to keep fighting. We have to keep going. American history is a pendulum between moments of powerlessness and realized power.

Keep fighting.
If we let these fascists win, if we let them fortify their power and destroy every bridge behind them, we might never find our way out.

Keep going. Keep marching. Keep showing up. You have power and it’s as wide open as we’ve ever seen it.
As long as you show up, as long as you march and fight, they have literally no choice but to pay attention and recognize your power. You control the narrative and you control the reality. That powerlessness you felt was a weaponized illusion.
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This is madness.

But what’s even more terrifying is that the President of the United States is watching and amplifying a propaganda channel that pushes blatant New World Order conspiracy theories and makes no attempt at actual journalism. Image
Say what you want about Fox, but FNC at least employs the veneer of journalism. OANN is a boutique propaganda outfit designed to appeal to Trump’s most paranoid delusions to influence his behavior and drift off his position.

It’s not just dangerous, it’s an existential threat.
There was always going to come a competitor against Fox that catered to Trump and Trumpism, but OANN’s approach is just beyond irresponsible. This is nightmare TV, racist, paranoid trash, and its entire purpose is to worship and drive Trump to more and more violence.
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You realize police forces around the country have just been holding up cities for protection money for decades, right?

And you realize their monopoly over funds has destroyed social services that would've helped curb crime without them and saved lives and property anyway, right?
Cut police funding and invest in communities.

Stop throwing our money away for fear and white supremacist paranoia and fund education, infrastructure, social services, and human projects.
Even as crime rates have gone down, every call for cutting police budgets has been met by far right calls of capitulation and people being “weak on crime.” The problem has compounded and it’s time to correct our course, pull back from militarization, and invest in our communities
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Fun facts: Churchill enabled a genocide in India and after signing the Atlantic Charter, which promised freedom for the people and denounced fascism, he had to assure his fellow elites he didn't mean the British Empire would stop oppressing people or actually support democracy.
Just because someone led a country through a crisis and provided some amazing copy for newspapers and quotations for the history books doesn't mean they weren't racist or capable of great cruelties.
America's partnership with England in the Second World War has meant we've had to carry water for what England and Churchill did, the suffering they caused, but if we're going to get any better we have to stop it with these messiahs and men made into myth.
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