I totally don't understand the "no resistance" part. Is then this country filled with total idiots? Or are they all that greedy, they think they are going to get something from that orange satan if they support him? Both possibilities are despiccable.
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Putin won the Cold War. Things that are happening I would never though would happen and I really believed republicans would defend the constitution, they talked about it so much.
Now even talking against them is dangerous since they are tracking everyone. I really though people would protect more democracy
I don't blame the Citizens. The Citizens are against a huge media blitz working against them: Online, social media, and traditional media. They've been systematically targets to oppose on another on multiple levels.
The Democrats and the Republicans both failed. This is Democratic Erosion over a long timeline. We're seeing the results of a failure of Democracy.
Democratic guardrails were removed over a long enough time and/or were not reinstated fast enough. The same people who thrive in high-level social circles tend to be sociopaths and psychopaths, both can be corrupt, this is humans nature. Technology moved faster than geriatric politicians could keep up with, and this was taken advantage of by both the psy/sociopaths and International Forces. We are living through the downfall of American Democracy driven by both Capitalism and International Forces doing what all Internationals Forces have done since Pangea split or whatever.
We don't live in a perfect world. Democracy will always be a tug of war between ideas of shared power and the want of absolute power; this is human nature.
The only forces that can hold a POTUS accountable, especially at this stage when there's so many stooges in place, is a literal mob or the Military Branch. If this administration doesn't want to give up power; I'm not sure there's anything to stop them.
Did you know Hitler just took over the movement created by his mentor?
I didn't until recently
Down to the lil mustache and everything...
On the orders of his army superiors, Hitler applied to join the party.
I didn't know. No wonder that it is never mentioned.
Well that's certainly strange. That it all seems to go back to civilian surveillance and concerns about communist uprisings. What's this Karl Mayr guy's story?
Who?
[as an antisemitic and anti-communist conspiracy theory that was widely believed and promulgated in Germany after 1918. It maintained that the Imperial German Army did not lose World War I on the battlefield, but was instead betrayed by certain citizens on the home front – especially Jews, revolutionary socialists who fomented strikes and labour unrest,[1] and republican politicians who had overthrown the House of Hohenzollern in the German Revolution of 1918...When Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party rose to power in 1933, they made the conspiracy theory an integral part of their official history of the 1920s, portraying the Weimar Republic as the work of the "November criminals" who had "stabbed the nation in the back" in order to seize power. ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stab-in-the-back_myt
Minneapolis protestors beg to differ
So some people in a secondary city of the US have been protesting? Great, but that only proves the point. At least 2 of those people were murdered in the meantime by a government militia that faces no trial about it.
Secondary?!
You chaff. If every Minnesotan pulled their conceal and carry to rightfully pop these fucking invaders, it opens the flood gates of the tyranny’s army. This shit is delicate. The fact that we showed restraint so that a “legal” full fledged invasion didn’t happen is astounding. We’re being held captive by our own government who holds the world’s largest military card. The fight IS happening, but we can’t do it physically. We’d be decimated. It’s not that we don’t want trials, it’s that the entire power structure is against the people, reason, and justice. We’re TRYING to change it. And there IS a lot of good legal cases being built. But that doesn’t mean shit while our country is being held captive by a small hegemony of captors and a whole lot of “I’m just doing my job” sub-humans carrying military equipment playing gestapo
P.S. I honestly just used your post to vent after seeing my city being called “secondary”. You didn’t say anything untrue otherwise and I likely agree with most, if not all of your standpoints
I didn't mean secondary in an offensive way. It's just a fact, it's not LA, NY, SF, Chicago or DC. It's a city with very little international recognition, it's probably more significant than what I assume, but from my European POV it seems a city way out of the main US metropolis.
I do wish it inspires more people around the US. But again, from what and where I see, it's seems like the US is going into a real dictatorship with very little resistance, be it the opposition party, the courts, the media or the man on the street.
I see you.
It’s fucking horrific to live through. The opposing party has no real power beyond a vote, of which they’re outnumbered by retarded egomaniacs. The courts are a fucking joke just like the rest of our “checks and balance” system. Algorithmic media is actual cancer that pushes rage, ignorance, and the agenda. “News” and cable like media either push the narrative of the regime or just “tsk tsk”’s the shit going on. And the fucking good people on the street are fighting with a hand behind their back because if they cast a singe real stone, like say, a bullet, it opens the flood gates of martial law. Of which, with our current moral, we would be properly fucked into submission like Trump so loves to do.
We’re in check until a couple of potential turning points. Midterms could prove interesting which would add stopping power. There’s already dissent in the Republican Party, of which I hold little hope because they’re all retarded egomaniacs, but that makes the dissent even more of a point. If Trump actually does start a war to post-pone elections, instating his third term, I think hell would be raised within his own support system. And of course, he could just fucking die already and I’m fairly confident his cult would rapidly deteriorate.
All to say, you’re right. America is being raped by its president. But I hold hope that is not unfounded that this will not go unpunished. Even if it does take years…
All to say, you’re right. America is being raped by its president. But I hold hope that is not unfounded that this will not go unpunished. Even if it does take years…
I hold the same hope. My comments around here are not intended to be discouraging, but provocative, I'm sure the "American freedom" stills rings bells within most US citizens. So I do hope they'll do something to get it back.
The current framework however does seem too weak, the rich dudes own the country.
194 days left, not only for the US: https://feddit.org/post/26014311
No side loading, no VPN but age verification, there will be no communication platform left to organise an opposition.
Ironically the following post about EU sanctions was removed. There is Russian influence, but the main issue is that the EU commission can ban anybody without a trial. We don't even discuss that the EU is as prepared as the US to become a dictatorship.
https://feddit.org/post/26111492
Removed Post Dogru is the first European Union citizen known to be living inside the EU to face extrajudicial sanctions imposed by Brussels reason: 1. Bait, 2. I thought you defederated from us.
Saboteur!
But.....but people spent their day off in the cold out on the streets chanting for a few hours!! Wasn't that enough?!?!?!
It is good they do this, but there shoul be many more of them.
Is he talking about the rise of AfD?
The last decade has made it abundantly clear how weak America actually is.
Growing up I just assumed we would stomp this kind of shit out real fast. Instead we're bending over and letting an almost dead felon rapist pedophile fuck our country and our futures up. We're allowing a clearly treasonous party to abdicate all their responsibilities to a fat creep that falls asleep and shits his pants during official duties.
It's truly pathetic.
Don't think I'll be able to muster up much patriotism for this shithole for the remainder of my life.
ThEyRe BaItInG yOu
It is without resistance. The citizens offer protest while the Democratic Party looks out for their retirement checks. The protest has been ineffective other than getting press and bringing out trump’s goon squad.
Ineffective my ass. And without resistance my ass. This is not an overt battle. We can’t win by just popping these motherfuckers. We’d be decimated. Just because you don’t see people throwing their lives away like fodder doesn’t mean that there isn’t motion. Legal cases are being made. Decentralized, encrypted services are being utilized to coordinate resources, track feds, communicate with families who need security, and I’m sure a shit ton more initiatives.
Protests, though simply overtly showing contempt, is making ICE despise the work they do and are at least forced the regime’s hand to show boat change. Not substantially, but not nothing.
But don’t you dare say there isn’t resistance. People are giving their time, energy, and when the time actually demands it, their lives. Fuck you for basically spitting on Alex Pretti’s grave
Look deeper. There have been underground resistance groups that have formed and taken action using new tech to organize and communicate.
With those tools and groups in place, and with their practice using them to organize group action, they are in a key position to lead more overt resistance operations going forwards... As well as provide guidance and support to other groups that form in other areas as they naturally will.
A similar get up to the underground railroads and zines of years past, that, in those days, provided platforms for organization, expansion, and brought up the historical resistance leaders we can still read about today.
Those leaders and actions don't just pop up and happen spontaneously, even though it may appear that way when you only read about them and the outcome of those events in history classes.
There's a whole process to the buildup that has often taken years, sometimes decades, but can now occur much quicker due to our modern resources.
When, or if, a time comes when the scales tip and people turn to more overt action, the systems needed to ensure they are noteworthy will already be in place, I assure you.
There's no need to rush it ATM.
Haste makes waste, as they say.
But there's always a breaking point, and we vary well may hit it.
The 2001 Patriot Act is the cornerstone and the MAGA fucknuts pushed ahead with their insane Project 2025 BS!
Americans are too obsessed with themselves to give a shit. And when ICE starts busting the heads of white people, they'll happily report their neighbors and coworkers for disloyalty.
The American constitution means there was a way of stopping America from becoming a tyrannical fascist state.
Turns out it is just for show.
Netanyahu is in charge
Funded by AIPAC
Which in my view is not that different from any other county historically falling under dictatorship. Most of them has for one or another reason wanted the dictator in charge initially and welcomed the overlord.
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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?
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.
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
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.
Surely civilians joining together in a mob to take out Trump's gang of lil rascals would be the end of it right?
Graciously explicit' job post reveals Trump's DHS expanding shadowy apparatus: report
Pam Bondi Admits DOJ Has a Secret Domestic Terrorist List
The Lavender precedent: automated kill lists and the limits of International Humanitarian Law
The onslaught was, undoubtedly, fuelled by algorithmic calculations and the automatisation of warfare. (Fatafta and Leufer 2024). Indeed, AI-driven targeting enabled the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) to find targets faster than they could be struck (Mhajne 2025). In practice, this meant that once the bombing began, there was a virtually endless “pipeline” of targets. One intelligence officer stated, “the targets never end”. Once an attack is launched, the commander has “another 36,000 waiting” (McKernan & Davies 2024). The integration of these AI systems has accelerated the pace and expanded the scale of attacks to a degree that experts say “incomparable with any 21st-century air campaign”, with devastating consequences for Gaza’s civilians (Airwars 2024).
Foremost among these AI tools is a system code-named “Lavender,” an algorithm developed by Unit 8200 (Israel’s elite signals intelligence unit) to automate the identification of human targets. An investigative report by +972 Magazine and Local Call (Abraham 2024) revealed that the Lavender algorithm assigns each person a probabilistic score indicating the likelihood that they are members of an armed group (Mhajne 2025). Six Israeli intelligence officers involved in the process testified that the system marked up to 37,000 Palestinians as suspected militants and identified their homes as targets for attack (Abraham 2024). These were predominantly low-ranking individuals.
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.
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The Weimar Republic also fell to the Nazis with almost no resistance.
they didn't have high spread internet back then to show they're crimes of to the wider public, given that there losing seats in deep red states tells me the majority does not support these people and they're not getting a lot of back up if things get ugly for them.
There was plenty of violence in Germany leading up to the Jan 1931.
They were concerned with stopping socialists and communists, not putting an all powerful fascist in charge. Which is a recurring theme in history, afraid of reform they get a dictator worse than reform.
They thought big business could stop hitler if he got out of control, arrogantly thinking they could control the political monster they supported, just as now.
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