• just_another_person@lemmy.world
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    Well, Kelly. Your writeup assumes there are safeguards in place to allow every step of what you’re discussing. Those are gone now.

    I really fucking wish people would get off this train of doing these long thought experiments of how things work when literally everything you can rely on as previously working systems are fucking being threatened, and are not expected to work.

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      Don’t obey in advance. With the exception of the Supreme Court, most other systems and protections remain in place and may continue to exist regardless of Trump’s intentions, especially if they are fought for and protected.

      But direct action of the type the author is discussing has been very successful across many contexts, including brutal dictatorships with no human rights guarantees. So the whole thrust of your comment fails to grapple with the real history of popular struggle.

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        I’m not obeying shit. I’m saying the writing here is practically fanfiction.

        The entire government is now under control of a guy who has been completely absolved from any prosecution. He could literally publicly execute Biden on his first day in office and not face any consequences.

        His cabinet choices all plan to dismantle our government agencies.

        The only other normal channels that people will have to fight back will be dissolved, and Elon Musk will fire everyone associated with that for sure.

        Matt Gaetz is up for AG, and will totally use and abuse the legal system for whatever Trump wants.

        This is EXACTLY how modern dictatorships gets built, brick by fuckin brick, you idiot.

        What in the fuck are you talking about?