I'm repeating this.
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RE: https://fediscience.org/@petergleick/115840252024405576
I'm repeating this. The whole fascist, corrupt, MAGA enterprise would grind to a halt if literally half a dozen Republicans in the House and Senate would find a backbone.
@petergleick It's incredibly dumb of them. If Republicans actually want to ensure their hold on the government (which of course I don't want them to do, but if I were their strategist), they should come out against Trump as a guy who wants to take your guns, and oust him from office. It would humiliate Democrats and likely split the party. They should rally around a "good guy with a gun" and prove they are the law and order party who fights tyranny. They would win. But they're dumb.
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RE: https://fediscience.org/@petergleick/115840252024405576
I'm repeating this. The whole fascist, corrupt, MAGA enterprise would grind to a halt if literally half a dozen Republicans in the House and Senate would find a backbone.
@petergleick I feel like it's not so much a lack of backbone. I think they think they will reap some benefits of this.
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RE: https://fediscience.org/@petergleick/115840252024405576
I'm repeating this. The whole fascist, corrupt, MAGA enterprise would grind to a halt if literally half a dozen Republicans in the House and Senate would find a backbone.
sure it would but there is no decent GOP, much less a handful of GOPs, they've worked tirelessly for fascism since Ronald Reagan, over 40 years, they are not going to quit now with the goal in reach
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@petergleick could you provide a list with 6-7 names, which ones would be most likely to turn around?
I don't know much about US-Senators and House Representives. But I'd like to write letters to appeal to reason and humanity to those, who might just need a nudge from abroad and within. We all could try to talk reason. It might work, who knows?!you can't seriously imagine that the party of white supremacy is open to reason
i've lived here all my life, they do not respond to reason or even self interest, their hate is everything to them
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you can't seriously imagine that the party of white supremacy is open to reason
i've lived here all my life, they do not respond to reason or even self interest, their hate is everything to them
@peachfront I can't imagine that every single one is like those MAGA thugs! @petergleick
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RE: https://fediscience.org/@petergleick/115840252024405576
I'm repeating this. The whole fascist, corrupt, MAGA enterprise would grind to a halt if literally half a dozen Republicans in the House and Senate would find a backbone.
@petergleick I mean, yeah, quite literally, but they sadly won't :<
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@peachfront I can't imagine that every single one is like those MAGA thugs! @petergleick
some of them are more polite about it but they all hold the same beliefs
if it makes you feel better, by all means try to use sweet reason, but those who have been using sweet reason for the last century can tell from experience that it simply doesn't work on these people (for that matter, arguing from reason & logic works only on a minority of people even among decent people, most people act based on emotion -- emotion is the driver of human psychology)
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RE: https://fediscience.org/@petergleick/115840252024405576
I'm repeating this. The whole fascist, corrupt, MAGA enterprise would grind to a halt if literally half a dozen Republicans in the House and Senate would find a backbone.
@petergleick
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some of them are more polite about it but they all hold the same beliefs
if it makes you feel better, by all means try to use sweet reason, but those who have been using sweet reason for the last century can tell from experience that it simply doesn't work on these people (for that matter, arguing from reason & logic works only on a minority of people even among decent people, most people act based on emotion -- emotion is the driver of human psychology)
@peachfront Then let's write emotional letters! There must be a way to reach at least some of them. @petergleick
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RE: https://fediscience.org/@petergleick/115840252024405576
I'm repeating this. The whole fascist, corrupt, MAGA enterprise would grind to a halt if literally half a dozen Republicans in the House and Senate would find a backbone.
@petergleick either they really want it all, and feel safe with their rôle, or they are subject to sufficiently dire and potent threats.
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RE: https://fediscience.org/@petergleick/115840252024405576
I'm repeating this. The whole fascist, corrupt, MAGA enterprise would grind to a halt if literally half a dozen Republicans in the House and Senate would find a backbone.
@petergleick so is the search for the six least corrupt, fearful, malevolent, republicans in office under way?
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RE: https://fediscience.org/@petergleick/115840252024405576
I'm repeating this. The whole fascist, corrupt, MAGA enterprise would grind to a halt if literally half a dozen Republicans in the House and Senate would find a backbone.
@petergleick yet so many democratic politicians still wants to roll over, negotiate and work with that lot...
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RE: https://fediscience.org/@petergleick/115840252024405576
I'm repeating this. The whole fascist, corrupt, MAGA enterprise would grind to a halt if literally half a dozen Republicans in the House and Senate would find a backbone.
@petergleick Which'd only get rid of the current fascists, it wouldn't take the fascists out of power altogether. You're looking for a much more fundamental stripping down here, this is the black mould in the framework.
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RE: https://fediscience.org/@petergleick/115840252024405576
I'm repeating this. The whole fascist, corrupt, MAGA enterprise would grind to a halt if literally half a dozen Republicans in the House and Senate would find a backbone.
GOP billionaires own & operate the entire Republican political apparatus.
The billionaires have achieved their kleptocracy & are no longer in the business of democracy & governance.
They are in the business of manipulating the subjects of a #MadKing
They are not in the business of serving voters, citizens, or American interests.
Billionaires deluding themselves of permanent rule.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2025/billionaires-politics-money-influence/https://theweek.com/politics/us-election-who-the-billionaires-are-backing
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RE: https://fediscience.org/@petergleick/115840252024405576
I'm repeating this. The whole fascist, corrupt, MAGA enterprise would grind to a halt if literally half a dozen Republicans in the House and Senate would find a backbone.
That says way more about the elected "Christians" in the House and Senate, than anything else. A Christian Nation, indeed.
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RE: https://fediscience.org/@petergleick/115840252024405576
I'm repeating this. The whole fascist, corrupt, MAGA enterprise would grind to a halt if literally half a dozen Republicans in the House and Senate would find a backbone.
Exactly and that is not even likely to happen... unbelievable and shameful...
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RE: https://fediscience.org/@petergleick/115840252024405576
I'm repeating this. The whole fascist, corrupt, MAGA enterprise would grind to a halt if literally half a dozen Republicans in the House and Senate would find a backbone.
@petergleick I can only think this means they agree with the underlying white supremacy project.
Maybe we should put some resources into pointing this out?
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RE: https://fediscience.org/@petergleick/115840252024405576
I'm repeating this. The whole fascist, corrupt, MAGA enterprise would grind to a halt if literally half a dozen Republicans in the House and Senate would find a backbone.
@petergleick and if people withdrew their data so MAGA's surveillance state project wouldn't work.
Get yourself away from big tech's surveillance here:
https://blog.rebeltechalliance.org/the-big-tech-walkout-2026/
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RE: https://fediscience.org/@petergleick/115840252024405576
I'm repeating this. The whole fascist, corrupt, MAGA enterprise would grind to a halt if literally half a dozen Republicans in the House and Senate would find a backbone.
It's partly because the hard right realised some time ago that if democracy continued, they'd be losing elections forever, so when an opportunity to sideline democracy comes up, they seize it
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GOP billionaires own & operate the entire Republican political apparatus.
The billionaires have achieved their kleptocracy & are no longer in the business of democracy & governance.
They are in the business of manipulating the subjects of a #MadKing
They are not in the business of serving voters, citizens, or American interests.
Billionaires deluding themselves of permanent rule.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2025/billionaires-politics-money-influence/https://theweek.com/politics/us-election-who-the-billionaires-are-backing
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Fund a Fascist & Find Out.
In the critical Kentucky Senate race, billionaires are funding more fascist wannabes.
Boycott them all.
https://archive.ph/yr6Ii
https://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article314530709.html"Here’s a rundown of who helped pad Barr’s fundraising lead. Though donors can give campaigns a maximum of $7,000, only half of that, $3,500, can be used during the primary election.
1. Marc Andreessen, a prominent billionaire venture capitalist and early supporter of President Donald Trump ...
