A good example of this is the Rosenstraße Protest. Nazi Germany was unable to deal with popular pushback at height of Hitler’s totalitarian power at the literal center of repression.
Depending on the context, acquiescing and then not following orders can be quite effective as well, especially if you’re in a position of direct contact.
E.g., your supervisor instructs you to do something like take down the company DEI site? Say no, get fired… Or say yes, and just don’t do it. You forgot, it’s a cached version, etc. Eventually you have to take it down and then a month later when the site updates it’s back. Someone must’ve left it in the update package.
Be creative, be active. Anyone who wants to gaslight the world is owed nothing but deception and disrespect.
They cannot be everywhere, but they’re certainly trying with ever-increasing surveillance and AI to go through all that data.
Good thing Democrats voted for that every step of the way, despite people telling them what this was going to lead to.
I can’t even fight back in self-defense because I’m not white and typically the other person is.
The system is stacked against me and the only possible approach is secret vigilante justice.
Not only that: They rely on people pre-emptively obeying them before even being threatened. Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, all those guys, they know better. They’re also doing fine money-wise. They had every option to just tell Trump to get fucked, and mess up their company if he wanted to make that decision. They wouldn’t have been out on the street, whatever happened, and they would have had a chance to do something noble instead of just optimizing for the money function like a malfunctioning AI superintelligence.
One of the critical factors in fascists taking power is “obeying in advance.” Because, yes, they can’t be everywhere. Fuck that. I fully support this message.
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Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, all those guys, they know better. They’re also doing fine money-wise. They had every option to just tell Trump to get fucked, and mess up their company if he wanted to make that decision
You say that as if they’re complying reluctantly instead of enthusiastically.
All the billionaire plutocrats are fucking GLEEFUL at what’s happening. Every. Single. Fucking. One. is the enemy of the People.
They don’t seem at all reluctant, no. Why are you saying they’re gleeful, though? How do you know?
Because this makes them money. Either indirectly, through kickbacks, or through stripping of regulatory powers.
Not really. Big company incomes, along with pretty much any other economic metric you want to choose, very consistently do better under liberal government in the US. It is one of very few actual consistent and simple truths about economics and politics in the world. And Trump is infinitely worse than an average Republican. He’s likely to crash the entire economy, or worse.
“On Tyranny” covers that in the first chapter.
2 hour audiobook.
Well, you don’t become a billionaire by doing the morally right thing, so it would have been a miracle.
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One mistake trump made was allowing an armed proletariat.
He can only fuck over his base for so long before they start to get angry, and a lot have already noticed…
The 2 guys that tried were actually his own supporters. When he starts actually effecting things and pissing them off, it’s going to get ugly.
AoC says strap up
I suspect we’ll have another Rosa Parks moment for the history books sometime in the next four years or so.
If they don’t burn or ban them.
Not a meme
that’s just your opinion, man.
“vote for Biden”
“No, make me”
Yeah, this, THIS will work perfectly
What are you even trying to say? Like yeah, your comment parses grammatically, but I haven’t the foggiest about what it’s supposed to mean in context 🤷♀️
And voting discourse? What’s the point of that??? The election was two and a half months ago, and Biden wasn’t even running 🤦♀️
Quick question to make sure this isn’t a bot account: how many times does the letter “m” occur in the word “remembered”?
Don’t feed trolls. Block them.
What if I think they’re funny tho
Well you do you 👍
Nevermind, you were right, their comment history is pretty rancid.
Could you please explain what this means? This is on par with that inbred on every Facebook post who comments “LOOKS LIKE BIDEN N KAMALER”, and it’ll be an ad for a Volkswagen.
So, the maga crowd was right all this time? Uncanny
