Apologies, I do not mean to be discouraging anyone from actions that they can take. Whatever people in and around NY/ NYC can do on a practical level to facilitate his removal, I am all for.

We have ample reason to be discouraged, but I’m not sure targeting the only block of voters and potential activists who might actually both give a shit and be educated enough to get something to budge in order to inflict depression is a good strategy.

To be frank, I don’t think that Beehaw is or can safely be a space for organizing activists, and I don’t think it has the reach to be having any kind of external impact. Apart from it being at a very high level a space for left-oriented folks to talk, I think Beehaw is different things to different people, and that may or may not include being an impetus to real-world action. For me, it’s definitely a space to escape from the stress of being surrounded by conservatives in my day-to-day, and sometimes that escape may end up being more venting than rallying. I have probably been more negative recently than I could be, but I don’t think it’s useful or healthy to simply pretend at, or certainly enforce, positivity.

I have been pretty disheartened and negative recently, and I will work to not project that here because I don’t want to and never intended to be pushing my own stress onto others (yourself included), and seeing as I clearly have, I apologize.

the kind of things we’re signalling to the rest of the left… may be actively making the situation worse.

Not to make light of the situation, but I can’t tell if you or I think things are more dire. :P