As a former Marilyn Manson fan, yeah, shit sucks. Obviously not nearly as much as it does for the victims, but still, shit sucks.

If your focus is solely on the MAGA cult instead of the oligarch cult leaders, “just smart enough” might be a little generous.

I don’t know if “sane” is the right way to describe the historical MO of the US Government with or without Trump, but I know what you mean. I think.

Inkjet printers can be traced if the feds really wanted to (probably very unlikely just for stickers though).

Rhodesia didn’t make it though, so there’s some precedent for real-world hope too, even though I largely agree with you.

The Tea Party still had the backing of capitalists. If you try moving the Democrat party meaningfully left, you will not have that.

If the Democratic primaries weren’t rigged to hell and back Bernie would have finished his second term last January.

Which the courts said was within their legal right, so you can absolutely expect them to do it again.

Gavin Newsom takes money from AIPAC and knows he can’t justify it, and has expressed support for Zionist Israel. Just like Holocaust Harris, I will not vote for anyone who supports genocide. If signing my name to greenlight genocide is the cost of “democracy” (actually oligarchy with some publicly-funded democracy theater), then the price is too high and I refuse.

The Dems rigged the election against Bernie to protect billionaires, then had a court declare that they were legally within their right to rig it. What makes you think they care how angry the average person is at their owners?

And (in the experience of hypothetical pirate goblins I’ve hypothetically spoken to) won’t result in your ISP shutting your internet off until you agree to be nice and never do that again.