I keep saying that we have to win this election three times over: at the polls, in the courts, and on the streets.
When I say “on the streets,” I’m talking about things like this from @kims: 
https://mas.to/@kims/113041489148639250
“We should have been paying more attention [in 2020] to what [violent right-wingers] were saying amongst themselves online. And what they’re saying amongst themselves right now is probably disturbing. Because they’re talking about shooting their neighbors.”
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“If we’re talking about the kind of rhetoric we’re seeing in right-wing Telegram spaces, they’re basically talking about how it will be “decided by the bullet box, not the ballot box.”
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Q: Do you think appropriate law enforcement preparations are being made?
A: No. Nobody even talks about it, Rick. That’s why this is a problem. Nobody is even recognizing that this is building.
…We have Trumpist cops working on the local level, we have them working on the state level, and we have them working on the federal level.…We have a lot of law enforcement who fall for this stuff! Who watch Fox News, and believe that antifa is this deep, dark threat to America.
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Q: Is the media ready?
A: No. None of them are considering it as a factor. I think it’s amazing that someone like Amanda Moore, who did this incredible undercover work exposing these neo-Nazis’ connections to the Republican Party, she can’t even get an editor to pick up her work. All these editors and all these producers are all like, “That’s not interesting anymore, we don’t care about that stuff.”
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The whole thing:
https://prospect.org/politics/2024-08-28-election-story-nobody-talks-about-neiwert-qa/
Sobering stuff.
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Zocca @ocramz@sigmoid.social@inthehands the rest of the world has a lot of trouble processing these two lines
@ocramz
Believe me, we do too