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[–] hector@lemmy.today 0 points 5 days ago

People still don't see that the opposition party is controlled, influenced, by the fascists, and that under their leadership this was always going to result. Even now, and they are led to aggressively attack anyone fighting for winnable candidates pushing popular reform that would undo the plutocratic rot that enables fascists to run as reform.

There is not getting through to them, although to be sure the internet is full of fakes and many such accounts are fake, and many chatbots are faking en masse, But many are real. We have maybe one more chance in the succession fight to take it back, and all indications are we are going to throw it with newsom or some other worthless aristocrat.