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749 points doener | 3 comments | 01 Feb 25 11:52 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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paulyy_y ◴[01 Feb 25 13:52 UTC] No.42898268[source]▶
What's more depressing is this was completely predictable, totally avoidable, but half the country welcomed this wave of oppression with open arms.
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diggan ◴[01 Feb 25 14:12 UTC] No.42898405[source]▶
> but half the country welcomed this wave of oppression with open arms.

And the other half? They seem to welcome this as well, but with crossed arms. Where are the protests? Seems most people end up writing upset messages on Twitter/Bluesky, but also seems there are no grassroots movements to actually protest the borderline coup that is happening?

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bmitc ◴[01 Feb 25 14:31 UTC] No.42898563[source]▶
What do you propose? The only way to change is either voting, money, or violence. I'm generally lost as what to do.
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lazide ◴[01 Feb 25 14:41 UTC] No.42898643[source]▶
Voting - already happened.

Money - the folks doing this already have a ton of money, and used it in large part to get to this point.

Violence - necessary for change, but against who exactly? anyone trying to be violent against the folks running this will be disavowed by 90% of the rest of the population, and galvanize an outsized violent crackdown against anyone and everyone who even somewhat looks like them.

It’s going to have to get a lot worse before there is appetite to do the things that will actually make it better. people aren’t bleeding enough yet.

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1. bmitc ◴[01 Feb 25 14:43 UTC] No.42898665[source]▶
That's kind of my point. We're heading directly into Nazi, USSR, and CCP territory and gotta ride this out until another election (if we even have one), someone with money cares (they don't), or we're all ready for violence (it's all the idiots who have guns).
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2. lazide ◴[01 Feb 25 15:19 UTC] No.42898971[source]▶
The issue here is all the ‘opposition’ will do anything but actually fight - or allow anyone else to fight - or allow anyone else to violate the law.

So anyone actually trying to fight back will be destroyed by their own side. Where the folks doing this, won’t be.

3. ebcode ◴[01 Feb 25 16:26 UTC] No.42899555[source]▶
would you participate in a general strike?