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My tumblr timeline has looks like this, and that's overlooking a number of sub-1k reblogs (why hello, kawaii-guillotine, it's almost been a month since we last met); people in one (moderately trans) FFXIV Discord are considering Signal and in one case moving out of Texas (... to Canada, and no one wants to point out how rough that'd be), both real-life lefties and the Quilt Discord are wargaming out how to fight the inevitable Trump 3rd Election in 2028. I haven't look at PopeHat-sphere BlueSky world, and I'm not sure I want to.
Some of that's laughable, but there are a number of pretty deep policy disagreements, often ones that have a pretty wide potential impact for people. I'd hope that the GOP anti-abortion and anti-trans swings aren't so aggressive as to hit these people where it hurts, but I'm not optimistic, since even if MacIntyre-style revenge didn't take a foothold, most Republicans just don't know the material well enough to give caution. Meanwhile, the organizations that do have burned any trust that they might once have had.
((Maybe Elon Musk manages to turn the 4chan-style prescriptive heterosexuality into a part of the post-Christian Right... but I wouldn't be money on it.))
Likewise, there's a lot of (I hope) joking about the filibuster and court packing. Most of it's from people who are joking, but it's neither a great look nor a good policy.
That said, while I don't like people rubbing it in for most of the just-weirdos or just-left-normies (or even, despite my disagreements with him, Trace), some of the more assholish parts of the Fuck You Righties movement have earned what they've gotten. Vibes, papers, essays have definitely made a comeback as comebacks; the disappearance of The Young Turks its own statement, as has the complete failure of the political advertising system. The Bulwark is pretty likely to eat itself, or be consumed.
Haven't seen many great zingers, yet. For the most part, just repeating days or hours ago, or showing THIS IS WHAT MSNBC REALLY BELIEVES is as or more effective.
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