We'll all have to make a conscious decision as to whether we will resist, collaborate, leave or just try to keep our heads down until it's over.
I'm not particularly optimistic about which option most (or even just enough) Americans will choose...
this post was submitted on 28 Mar 2025
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Whenever people say we should fight, I wonder what they think fighting fascism actually looks like.
When they can censor the news and drag you off without a warrant k, what are protests going to do? When any election they lose is fake, what use are elections?
Fighting fascism requires violence. It’s the only language they understand.
Yeah, I mean how many of those here constantly saying resist are willing to take a gun and kill another person here? Build a bomb and actually use it? Are they willing to support those who are willing to use violence? House them, hide them, protect them?
We've seen what the other side is willing to do on January 6th, they've shown they're willing to resort to violence and condone it.
Will the left be willing to actually do this? Because that's what resisting fascism means.
This is the final goal post move
Americans have been ignoring this and moving the goal post for action for about a decade and now, its finally at "there is no point anymore" completely ignoring that this very same apathybis what got you here
What exactly do you mean by action?
Well it could have been anything before... As easily as freaking voting!
Now you need to organise major marches and a general strike (and no, attending an AOC rally does not count)
Short of that, any form of civil disobedience, any form of loud activism could help
A million people showed up to protest Trump’s first term in pink hats. It didn’t work just like the million people who protested the Iraq War.
And the first time he was elected Trump didn’t get a majority of votes, so voting doesn’t seem to work either. Hell, I’ve been voting for 25 years and things get worse every year in spite of it.
Most people didn't bother voting so voting, even in the backwards system of the USA, it would have worked if people cared
A general strike has not been done or organozed in decades
There are no easy answers anymore bud. You gius squandered all the resources and all the opportunities for decades... The options left are not the easy ones you can do evenings and weekends in between HALO matches
Considering people don’t care enough to vote I don’t have any hope they’ll care enough to go on strike.
I fucking hate group projects. I do everything right and the idiots who surround me negate all of it.
Fair, I have also lost all hope
But let's not forget things got this bad because the People are either completely apathetic or swimming in "fuck you, got mine" attitude
Now, there is no easy out. When the economy collapses and people are actually facing consequences, they'll have no choice but to act. The more they wait, the harder it will be
I wish I could have apathy instead of impotent rage.
I'm choosing leave, I encourage everyone who can to do so
Yeah, because that's an option for so many people.
I know it's not an option for everyone and I really wish it was, but it is an option for many. I'm personally tired of fighting for my right to exist here since I was little, I'm done.
Must be nice
That’s not particular to Americans. Lots of people put their heads down rather than try to fight. Look at Russia!
This phenomenon is called depoliticizaton. Philosopher Vlad Vexler talks about it often.
Narrator: No, it hasn't
Unfortunately, no we haven’t.
My prediction:
MAGA can't lose the slim majorities in both Houses, or control of investigatory committees will fall into the hands of Democrats, as well as legislative control. Protests will continue to grow around the nation, driven by citizen anger over multiple issues. By next summer the protests will be huge, and HitlerPig will encourage his RedHats to instigate violence. They heeded his call before, and he pardoned them, and made them political martyrs within their cause. They will respond again.
Now he can call the protests violent, and send in the authorities to quell the violence with more extreme violence. That will allow him to declare Martial Law and suspend the upcoming elections until peace is restored, and since he controls the peace, that will never happen. Any further demonstrations will be met with deadly violence, and any organizers will be disappeared to the 30,000 person facility currently being built in Guantanamo, outside of the view of the media or the toothless courts.
Kapo Stephen "PeeWee Himmler" Miller has said that he wants America reduced from the current 335 million people, to 100 million. Using your best historical speculation, how do you think he proposes to reach that goal?
Axl Rose voice :
Yep, we're fucked.
In all honesty, the tipping point was in 2016.