Every time an authoritarian con-artist is held accountable, every time the mask slips in a courtroom, the spell weakens.
It takes pressure. It takes a public that doesn't flinch when the volume gets turned up. It takes faith - not in the perfection of institutions, but in their potential.
https://www.theindex.media/authoritarian-grift-meets-the-grind-of-justice/
@DaojoanJA Westenberg I posted something the other day about the depressingly common, defeatist genre of comment that argues, in effect, that because one form of dissent is unlikely to be effective on its own, there's no point doing it.
But relentless full-spectrum attack *does* work, as history has repeatedly shown. Of course every individual can (and should) only do what they're able...but we are legion.
Not everyone has the spoons to do all of the things, and that's fine.
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