There's a lot of great advice on here, about what we can do about the current state of things. So much, that it's easy to be overwhelmed.

For me, it helps to summarize, so here's my attempt at a prioritized list - with 4 proven action items, 3 anti-patterns, and a bonus item I concocted myself. (Thread)

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#trump #coup #usa #america #politics #resist #fascism
#democracy #activism

Let's not miss or ignore what is happening around the world and specifically in America: As we see hostilities grow over the next few years under a guise of necessity, progress, and security, and perhaps to unfathomable distress, we will witness a subtle yet more powerful undercurrent of grace, generosity, and peace at times that runs, constantly available, to get us successfully through what is coming, should we stay open and receptive to such often gentle persuasions.

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On #trump 2.0 ― an inconsequential European view:

I see lots of previously sprouting if belated plans to tackle global issues unraveling, and lots of nooses tightening.

I could explain 2016 as sheer ignorance, albeit stemming from malignant seeds.

2020 gave #America an opportunity to leave the maga derangement era behind, or at least to render it less harmful but for the absolute freedom to lie combined with the sociopaths' control of key media networks (esp. in the "swing states").

This was created by Rupert #Murdoch (congrats?) in crucial collaboration with pro-fascism American (and South African) billionaires and boosted by hostile foreign disinfo and propaganda networks.

The 'honorary' collusion awards go to the legacy media networks for their incessant sanewashing and bothsideism; and the post-neo-con former Republican Party for not even attempting to fight its fascism within.

The biggest winners: #putin, #CCP, the kim dynasty, #netanyahu, trump cronies, American regressives and most every current and aspiring autocrat and despot across the planet; corruption and sycophancy.

The biggest losers: US civil society, #Ukraine, #Taiwan, human rights globally, environment, climate change, the eponymous "rules-based world order" and any hope to rebuild a truly effective "coalition of democracies" which the US Democrats knew to be necessary to stop the global slide towards autocracy and "might over right" free-for-all... Despots will be further emboldened to target their subject populations without fear of consequences from the USA.

I'd be tempted to say "Fuck you America. We trusted you", but... oh wait I'm totally saying it!

(I'm pro-EU but recognize that similar forces are at work knee-capping EU ethics and decision-making and the "Fuck EU" types are aligned with the maga)

The magas might be (read: *are*) still a minority in the USA, but so are the decent people standing up for democracy . The large deciding third of the indifferents won the argument.

"All that is necessary for evil to triumph
is for good men to do nothing."

― Edmund Burke

This nation's descent into the deepest cesspools of #fascism has commenced.

While not surprising, the devastation our country will now experience will, undoubtedly, set us back generations. Given the red wave (more like red tide), #americans prefer a #demented #corrupt bumbling #misogynistic #idiot and #whitesupremacist than a highly intelligent and well-qualified #bipoc #woman.

Welcome to #america. We are so #turbofucked

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