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There is a brutal man with a gun, controlling and threatening a group of good citizens with consciences. He's going to do terrible things to them, and make them do terrible things themselves.
They have him outnumbered, but he has the gun. If they rush him, they can easily defeat him. But, the first one or two or three or four people to move forward will be shot and probably die painfully. Going first is going to cost a terrible price and you don't know for sure that anyone else will follow you, that your sacrifice will be for anything at all.
You feel a little paralyzed and at the same time ashamed you are just standing there.
What happens next?
Recently re-listening to ALL-AMERIKKKAN BADASS by Joey Bada$$, from 2017. I want to share the last verse of AMERIKKKAN IDOL here, it's even more bitterly accurate than it was back then.
This is what frustrates me most as a Canadian watching this from over the fence.
I've seen ICE videos of them killing people. There are 6 officers and 75 people with phones. ICE shoots someone and none of the 75 people do anything. They let it happen. The 75 people just stood by and watched ICE murder a citizen in broad daylight. When in reality those 75 people could have not only stopped the murder from happening, but likely killed those 6 ICE agents and prevented a future tragedy.
The fact no one wants to try and stop this is why it's still happening. America is filled with keyboard warriors and when push comes to shove, a bunch of pussies.
America is falling not just because of people not voting (Which 1/3rd of eligible voters allowed this to happen), but because of deliberate inaction as fascism takes over right in front of everyone with no resistance at all.
But maybe we'll have a protest on a Saturday afternoon. That'll show em.
It's a group psychology phenomenon (I forget the name). Everyone was waiting for someone else to intervene.
Brother to the North, fuck you. You’re the same.
Death staring you in the face, you’d do the same. Do you have kids? A partner? Fancy leaving them or anyone else you love early? Make that decision in mere seconds. Paralysis would take you too.
Keyboard warrior pointing the finger. Not everyone has so little to live for that they’d throw it away for a notion of standing up for injustice while a gun is staring you in the face. Shit’s not easy. I commend anyone making the choice to do so. But don’t point a finger while you’re not even here. You fucking ignorant pussy
I've served in the Canadian Armed Forces. I'll bet my house that's more than anything you've ever done. I've served my country once and I would do it again tomorrow if it came to it.
Your projection is so bright it can be seen from space.
You served in an organized military force with institutional backing, without implied threats to your family based on your conduct. That's a very different proposition than the choice facing American resistors now, isn't it?
Surely civilians joining together in a mob to take out Trump's gang of lil rascals would be the end of it right?
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Good luck bringing 75 guns to a Palantir drone fight, Mark Wahlberg.
Only half of those citizens have consciouses at all, and many of those are still confused about how bad the guy with the gun is. They still at least believe in there being a guy with a gun, just not this exact one, they want their handsome gun guy instead of this ugly gun guy. The other half rabidly love the guy with the gun.
Everyone pulls out their phones and starts scrolling for what's new and trending, several people answer their discord messages.
One man can't keep a hundred of his peers in subjugation, but a million can keep 400 million so. It's about organization and leadership. The analogy you give doesn't really fit, and neither do my statistics as they've far more than a million at their disposal. Half the country still supports them to boot and they've millions under arms, following orders and we have, the democrats organizing what passes for resistance.
There were about 1 million jews that died in Auschwitz, where they had about 10,000 guards. Quite literally a ratio of 100 people being subjugated by 1 person.
It's a point made in decline and fall of the roman empire, that an organized group can hold a large population down even as in a smaller group that ratio could not.
Looking at concentration camps is different, those people were already captured, you would want to look at the size of the police, and SS, and SA, and the like.
Also there were a lot more victims of nazis than just 'the jews." They killed unionists, socialists, communists, gypsies/roma, the mentally ill, homosexuals, leftists, political opponents, and so forth.
They matter as well, we repeat casualty figures of the nazis like jews were the only victims, and it's not true, and gives people a false impression that if they aren't a member of the out group they will be fine.
I wasn't trying to say jews were the only victims, just trying to show a real-world example of how it took about 1 person per 100 to subjugate a group of people. Yes the concentration camps were different but I would still say those people were subjugated.
I just made the point because the media does that all the time they never mention other victims, and it's left the population with a very inaccurate view of the nazis, their victims, and whom their victims would be if they got in power.
Not all immigrants it's an ever expanding list, especially when they will need a lot of scapegoats to cover for their stealing and corruption. People won't risk their neck if their neck isn't on the chopping block and all, I think it's a on purpose of them.
It also feeds into the victim mentality that is used by some groups to commit their own abuses and force their own others into ghettos they control, about 6 million of them in fact, coincidentally.