Interesting enough, that's how the Berlin wall got taken down. It was announced in the news that it was happening immediately. The actual order was going to be the next day, but when people in the crowd started taking down the wall, no one stopped them. The soldiers were told to just stand down.
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Well if you televise it like that then yes. But they say revolution will not be televised.
Literally a tactic that Russia was / is using to destabilize the US. Remotely organize an event and hope people show.
It shows you've never been to a third world country. You have no idea how bad things can get and people still chug along.
We just had one, they won easily with almost no resistance, and are in power now.
People who want a revolution have absolutely no fucking clue how badly it would turn out if it’s so much as even tried. Know this: It’s not the 1700’s anymore. It’s not going to go down like that at all.
It’ll be a fucking bloodbath.
And once the smoke has cleared, for all the effort and untold innocent lives lost- nothing will have moved the needle in a favorable direction for anyone. In fact, I’d all but guarantee we’d live under an indefinite martial law the likes no one has ever seen.
It fucking sucks SO bad that we’re here, don’t get me wrong. And I’m well aware this’ll be the unpopular opinion here, but never in history has charging the guards in a prison ever netted a positive result for anyone, and sadly, that’s where we are now. It’ll just be risking too much for not nearly enough.
And don’t even ask me what alternatives there are. I’ve no fucking clue. I wish I did. But this is one of those situations where one might not know the proper way to exit an airplane at 32.000 feet, but it’s safe to say they know damn well not to do it without a parachute.
realist doonerism is my favourite drug of choice these days too
We are not hungry enough.
The revolution has already started
Nah, we're just in a weird echo chamber.
So is MAGA. Most people, I think, do have strong opinions on things just thanks to social media brain rot but what they don't have is an actual plan, organization, or the actual fire you need to fight a revolution.
The Gravy Seals were just a typical example of how well your average revolutionary is really prepared.
Does make me wonder how many people are trying to affect local change. That's not going to get notice by anyone online, after all.
Very few people here seem to understand how high the bar is to get a violent revolution going.
Your average American upon believing that the revolution has started will shake their heads and maybe have casual conversations with their friends about that crazy revolution that got started while they drink beer at their local bar or bingo hall or whatever, and leave early cuz they gotta get up for work tomorrow.
No revolution is happening without the government making some serious disruptions to those people's way of life, and even then most of them will just blame immigrants like they're told.
I personally think it’s only a matter of time. Trump is terrible at the type of finesse needed to properly ‘boil the frog.’
I hope so. Traditionally the fascist way is to pick off small groups so they don't have to frog boil as much. Hoping they overstep their bounds and people get pissed and do something.
Personally I think the frog is already well done, but Trump is the exact kind of stupid to crash the economy when given ultimate power, and even cooked frogs... Need to eat?
Okay, the metaphor breaks down after a bit.
Maybe on the keyboards. But as much as everyone is talking about sending CEOs to the guillotines, nobody is actually doing it. It's just angry posting and venting on social media in between regular dull life moments.
Well, not nobody
3 of the greatest people of our time
Brian Thompson would like a word.
Progressives and MAGA both love Luigi Magione. Every shitty thing Trump does is another inch added to the smoke screen that the billionaires are hiding behind.
We take the fight to the individual billionaires, we're gonna have unity across the entire political spectrum in a second.
It has.
The problem is that the resistance hasn't gotten rolling yet.
What? You don't think the takeover of the US government by fascists isn't a revolution? It is. It's joust that the bloodshed is going to come after they solidify power instead of bale before.
Agreed
And so I come full circle on this response and just want to encourage you with some substance that we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.
- Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation
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revolutions take time. people are already out there building it.
wont complain if this gets more people to join though.
Me knee deep in viscous blood and corpses "the revolution wasn't real?"
Mamma mia! Let's-a go!
Watch out for-a Luigi!
we wont get any good revolution by just throwing stuff around. planning and organization are the most important aspects of a revolution
I think the whole point of the ridiculous shit he's done in week 1 is to abuse the slow speed of virality.
Freeze budget, content gets created, gets reversed, frozen budget content is peaking viral.
Mix of what's going on. News says one thing, social media says another.
So yeah I think you're right, but I think the point is civil war.
We gotta somehow unify and get one another to see it's a class war.
Edit: I want to make clear that I feel this way because I think Donald Trump is way way smarter than we want to give him credit for. The man understands attention. That's why he dominated in 2016. And that's why he's dominating your news feed now. This is not an endorsement.
The one thing Trump and Musk are both actually intelligent about is controlling the media cycle. They know how to draw focus to pointless shit so they can do their real deeds without attention.
Like run tesla into the ground? Must be doing the art of the deal.
I did say the one thing they were intelligent about.
True, that's my bad.
Ive been saying for a while that the constant barage of Trump and Elon memes makes us think they are significantly less caipable than they are. What are the odds that the commander in cheif of the worlds most powerful military and leader of one of the worlds superpowers AND the worlds richest man, owner of one of the worlds most popular social media platforms BOTH got there by bumblefucking their way to the top? Either "they are smarter and more caipable than we give them credit for by a wide margin" or "We couldnt stop two fucking morons when they told us their plan"... Imagine losing control of American democracy to Pinky and the Brain if it was two Pinkys.
Imagine losing control of American democracy to Pinky and the Brain if it was two Pinkys.
Funny thing about that: the theme song lyrics say "one is a genius; the other's insane" but don't specify which is which. There's a fan theory that Pinky is the sane one, and his seeming non-sequiturs are actually him thinking many steps ahead.
From that perspective, two Pinkys could indeed be more dangerous than two Brains, yet even more easily underestimated.
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Grab your rifle and run out into the street.. If you're the only one in the street with a rifle, go back inside. The revolution hasn't started yet.
You'd just get aimless riots if you tried it that way.
What are they going to do, run out and attack a street pole? [Suburbia]
What are they going to do, run out and get kicked by a cow, then said cow has some lovely pooping moments on their stunned form? [Ruralia]
What are they going to do, run out and jump on a taxi, or their neighbor walking home? [Urbania]
I doubt that most people would run out and start the revolution. Most people won't have plans or be researching targets, which would lower their threshold for starting a revolution, because it's easier to do something if you know how you're going to do it. Anyone who has plans or targets isn't going to be fooled by you saying a revolution has started. Most people are juuuust comfortable enough to not want to go out to the street and start randomly fighting.
Way too many people treat life like a movie, where anything other than gripping emotional drama is just stumbled through with eyes glazed over.
I think most people would be more likely to leave if things get bad enough. Question is if they can recognize the signs before the point of no return where escape routes are closed off.
The sign was election night my dude, welcome to hell.
Over half of Americans are obese. How many can survive the night in the woods outside their house, for a single night? How many know how to make gunpowder or charcoal?
No revolution is coming until people are literally starving to death. And the powers that be will never let that happen.
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I believe the term is "tinderbox"
Recommenting from another post, about the news of using Guantanamo for immigrant detainees:
I sent a text to those I love in any capacity, even former coworkers who’ve probably deleted my number. Not a group text - one by one. I think it’d be prudent for all US readers to consider doing the same.
Knowing some of you are like me, in that you might not know how to word such a text to someone not expecting it from you, I offer you my copy/pasted text:
America has a concentration camp now. I won’t send you anything more…it’s kind of rude that I’m sending this one. https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/donald-trump-announces-plan-to-send-migrants-guantanamo-bay/
Pull the ol’ Orson Welles on them?
The perma stun proceeds as expected
Why do you think Trump is doing so much outlandish bullshit right now? He's trying to distract everyone from the revolution.
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