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Written by Whisper of Reason on 2024-11-07 at 09:21

Then she went on stage in that debate, and she said yeah, we need more fracking. That moment, all the grassroots energy simply died down. There was a very short lag, a few days maybe, when people still tried to convince themselves. Then nothing. Just endless "Trump is bad".

Yes, Trump is really bad. Trump is a catastrophe. But he hasn't gained voters compared to 2020. It would be very easy to beat him by mobilizing the same number of left-leaning people that came out to vote four years ago.

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Written by Whisper of Reason on 2024-11-07 at 09:20

I'm not from the US, which is why I've been carefully considering what to say. In this overheated political landscape, it can be misinterpreted as interference. I will mostly share my observations.

I prefer reading to writing. Sometimes, I notice things others might easily miss. There was a gigantic wave of optimism, a tsunami of hope when Kamala Harris entered the race. I'm not talking about the official statements and the media spin, but about the tone of comments from the regular people.

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Written by Whisper of Reason on 2024-10-30 at 00:33

Certainly, they take us seriously enough to jail the bravest of us, but not enough to make any meaningful concessions.

There's absolutely no hope here yet. Like I said before, it's war and we're still far away from winning. To chart a path to victory, we need to clearly understand where we are at any given moment.

Brace yourselves for more messages of fake hope and, unfortunately, more of very real political repression coming along with them.

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Written by Whisper of Reason on 2024-10-30 at 00:23

Here's some background for that absurd €130m of "hope": we ARE in the middle of the sixth mass extinction:

https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/10/28/frightening-statistic-more-than-1-in-3-tree-species-worldwide-at-risk-of-extinction

Some people will be prone to react with "come on, dude, anything is better than nothing." No. Sometimes it's worse than nothing. In politics, nothing (i.e. silence on a glaring issue) indicates the ongoing thought process: consultations, deliberations, think tank repots, etc. This is the outcome, and it reads: Greta was right, we're still not being taken seriously.

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