Performative resistance from inside the machine. Cute gesture, but distress signals only work when someone's actually coming to help. Meanwhile, career diplomats keep writing memos and processing visas while posting their quiet protests on social.

Remember when we thought these symbols meant something would change? Now it's just content for the outrage cycle. Tomorrow there'll be a strongly worded letter, maybe some resigned LinkedIn posts from mid-level FSOs.

The machinery keeps grinding, upside down flag or not. Though I suppose watching institutional despair go viral is peak 2025.

Outdated data. The votes were not done being counted on November 10th. Trump got 49.8% to Harris' 48.3%

They still had third places where they could organize face-to-face. Think union halls, fraternal organizations (which us Millennials only know about from old cartoons), churches, etc.

See also this Adam Conover video, which isn't specifically about organizing to protest but nevertheless is pretty insightful about it.

balls so big they make black holes

The State is in distress. Who will answer the call? Who will come it's aid? We have all been summoned.

You reminded me me of when I was going through my dystopian fiction phase of reading the first time...I had a big stack of said novels to buy at Barnes and Noble.

They asked if I wanted to sign up for their loyalty card and I was so taken aback. Like...no...I do not want to be in your list.

Ah. Fair enough. Last time I had seen it it was more than 50% still. Well then by a technicality not a majority then. I do love a technically correct statement so I'll give you that one.

Still. More people voted for this than didn't vote for this.

Is that the State Department flag or is it a flag near the State Department?

That's not the final count

#3 depends where you are on the hit list I suppose. I'm trans, so I'm well past worry-o-clock and am actively making arrangements to leave the country. Someone like a cishet white male tech worker has a lot less to worry about though

Still. More people voted for this than didn't vote for this.

I don't want to pile on, but if less than 50% voted for this, then more than 50% voted against it. The people voting against it didn't vote for the same thing, but they did vote against this.

Kudos to the person who is sending the correct message. Everyone who believes in protecting the US Constitution should fly the US flag upside down.

There's nothing that can be done. Republicans have every bit of power there is. At least for the next two years.

There is always one type of power the people have.

Maybe we should double down on capitalism again.

It's the only move the US has used in living memory.

shitposting 🫵

"50+ bought in the last month" hmmmmm

Like when Elon gets rid of "all regulations" make private bounty hunters/hitman legal again?