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ck2 an hour ago

we're officially in the "just try to stop us" phase of authoritarianism

next up, armed ICE around voting locations despite federal law

because "just try to stop us"

then refusal to seat voted delegates

because "just try to stop us"

the idea is to normalize the obscenity of it all, like the billions in wildly illegal grifting

king's image on buildings, airports, passports, park passes, coins and $250 bill

whitehouse demolished, fights on front lawn, statues covered in gold while people can't get healthcare or even food

people arrested and prosecuted at great expense then quietly dismissed

all normalized somehow without mass outrage

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functionmouse an hour ago | parent [-]

I mean, are YOU going to try to stop them?

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alistairSH an hour ago | parent [-]

Like Susan Collins, I shall furrow my brow to indicate my unease with the situation.

Kidding, sort of, if brownshirts and other government-sanctioned thugs show up in November, I'm really not sure what I'll do. They're already making noise about doing extra "Watching" of elections in my area (Fairfax County) and as far as I can tell, the only criteria for that is "they vote blue, so it must be fraud!"

	▲	jackb4040 8 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It's a dumb question anyways. What any individual will do to resist is determined by the existence of a social movement, or lack thereof. You don't have to be willing to sacrifice your life or freedom in vain to contribute to that movement. It's a cynical framing by people who have been propagandized into hating nearly-powerless activists more than than the state, or even just support the state outright.