General Discussion

That’s what I am gearing up for. The kind of patience that fundamentalists had. That drive that brooks disappointment and the willingness to delay instant gratification and weather disappointments in a society where your views were getting fringe.

Most of what used to at least be considered mainstream by reasonable people (e.g. publicly funded civilian science, abortion rights, basic environmental protections, the public sector) is becoming fringe .

And we always needed that for issues like animal rights or better environmental and labor protections as is on the farther left.

Roberts was patient:

https://www.salon.com/2025/10/15/john-roberts-is-slowly-dismantling-america/

I think we need that on the left - both a fast strategy and this kind of patience/not getting discouraged.

It is not tied to democratic politics directly. I am not American and not being the left version of those fake Magats on Twitter, I can’t and wouldn’t interfere with American politics from another country. But I have an easy task to help the US. Specifically American science and medicine.

Which is attack my former employer-a noxious school in the pocket of tech giants. It is definitely one of the sources of this undemocratic purge.

I have to figure out the specifics-by attack I mean file the most meaningful complaints I can while skirting the actual scientists there (they are lame and pathetic for being passive in the face of all this, but not the source of the real issues. The technofascists are).