I don’t think Rivian is generally known for quality / reliability: https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/rivian/

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This is a really good point. And yet, movements are started in the wings. It’s really hard to get people all fired up with some tepid centrism.

Hey welcome! You may proceed to do all the rich eating you like over here.

The implicit demand is to stop supporting fascists.

The Supreme Court also desperately wants to uphold the make-believe idea that they are legitimate. Which means they might occasionally rule against Trump just to support that narrative.

Resist. Be noisy. Throw sand in the gears. There are only so many hours in the day, so even just slowing down the Trump administration’s agenda means they break fewer things / grift fewer grifts between now and the midterms.

Maybe from a game theory / trolley problem perspective, sure. But I guess my point is that a “presidential approval rating,” as in the current support for the president, is not one to one with how the electorate voted (or didn’t vote) four months ago. Especially as we get further from that event over time.

I disagree. There’s no “mandate” when so many voters are so disaffected with politics that they’d rather stay home than express themselves at the polls.

I was originally replying to the post above that said: “50% of the country loves their strongman president more than freedom or common sense.” And I was specifically disputing the 50% figure in regards to “loving” Trump. So you’re arguing something else entirely.

It’s an important distinction because falsely claiming that half the country loves Trump legitimizes his authoritarian rule.

So you’re saying those who didn’t vote love him? How does that make sense?

Less than a third of eligible voters voted for Trump.

Sounds on brand for him, because Snow Crash has a rail gun named Reason.

This. It gets people used to the idea and shifts the Overton window of protesting, if you will. It’s only the conservatives over on lemm.ee that don’t like that idea.

Yeah, they wanted change. But then the fascists conveniently swooped in and pretended they offered the type of change people actually wanted. (Cheap eggs, etc.)

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I guess we’ll both stay tuned and see whose prognosticating is right here.

Let them prepare! Effective organized protest and resistance isn’t something that happens overnight. It can sometimes take months or even years of concerted effort.

You say placate, I say practice. People who have never protested a day in their lives aren’t going to start out with a multi-month blackout. They need to get used to protesting by starting small.

The organization that organized the economic blackout has longer-term boycotts planned in the coming weeks. This is just the opening salvo. Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.