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Abolish all software patents. OK, I’ll compromise to a 3 year patent duration. No? So abolition it is.

Should Maga be more racist or more classist? That’s the question.

I have no idea what that means.

As an outsider looking in, I am wondering whether this might mean that the Republican party has a vision for a weaker federal government, such that the states would have more, well, rights. I.e., if the federal government gets very scaled down, is that at the same time emptying up the regulatory space for individual states to go in all sorts of different directions, or does it come with some kind of libertarian straightjacket?

The majority of the US population lives in wealthy blue states. If the regressive rural states can’t stomach the kind of extensive welfare state that makes sense in more urbanized places, fine. Like a “two speed Europe”, they can choose to stay behind, so long as California, Massachusetts, NY etc get the freedom to experiment with social democratic policies.

Edit: this kind of more decoupled federalism also exists eg in Canada. Quebec gets to pretend it’s France while Alberta gets to pretend it’s Texas.

I see your point.

Sure. But saying “that’s how things go” ignores the context of the overall atmosphere of fear and intimidation against anti-genocide activists.

In any case, the Streisand Effect is in effect. I would never have heard of this campaign if it hadn’t been for Indigo litigating against it. So there.

The very very low bar that everyone should have for the Democrats right now is to expect them to be furiously working to win the House and the Senate in the next midterm election. Like balls to the wall, all out. Anything less is completely acquiescing to trumpism.

You want more? They should be strategizing how to flip state legislatures. They should be working on lower levers of government from the bottom up, to fight gerrymandering and electoral shenanigans.

And these are just the normie political stuff. I’m not even going to get into the grassroots organizing, movement building, leadership development, labour organizing etc.

Franklin did tell you, from the very start: “a republic if you can keep it”. Do you want to keep it?

My two Canadian cents, take it or leave it.