It had to happen someday. I hope we can weather this and come back stronger in a few years.

EdIt: fixed a typo in the title

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      You don’t think the men and women of La Résistance were allergic to lead? You don’t think they fought knowing that getting shot, or captured, tortured and then shot was a very real possibility?

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        The problem is that unorganized resistance is impossible. It will result in martyrs and nothing more. No one wants to be a martyr for a doomed cause except fanatics who aren’t much use to anyone. And most people are willing to endure extreme pains if it means they get to live. The tipping point comes when there is a plausible way out through resistance. That has not yet show itself.

        Organizing is difficult because it must be secret. The US government is proficient in infiltrating and destroying organized resistance and countering the same. (See all the revolutions it has fucked over the years.) An open rebellion will be quashed immediately with the media demonizing any participants.

        To the extent that there is a successful or potentially successful resistance, we will not hear about it until it makes a major move. It will then be destroyed or rallied behind depending on how it deals with propoganda and whether it can garner general public support.

        A military coup by a high ranking officer who takes their oath to uphold the constitution seriously is more likely to succeed. But such a person is likely not to exist because of the right wing nature of the military in the US.

        If things keep going how they are going the rest of the world will need to take military action to end it a la WW1 and 2.

        Most foreigners are putting the blame on potential allies in the US for not acting fast enough thus helping to fracture any movement before it can begin.

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        I voted but a billionaire unironically bribed people to vote against me. The remaining options are grim and not enough people are at that point.

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          Billionaires have been bribing American politicians at a much higher rate than European politicians. Do you think that has something to do with the republicans dismantling regulations for the past 50 years, while Democrats have only focused on social inclusion of minority groups and completely neglected to fight against the billionaires trying to own the world?

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            Republicans are pure stupid-greed and democrats are too spineless to say anything other than “where’s my cut”. Third party is seen as throwing out your vote as they never pull enough support. The safety rails in law, the rule of law, and balances of power are gone at the federal level.

            The only hope I have left is big money removes Trump (IE. buys impeachment votes out of republicans) and his sycophants are too incompetent and hated to get reelected without the cult head, or a blood vessel in his pea brain pops and he drops dead. That may just get us semi competent dictator Vance instead.

            I don’t think Americans can overthrow America.

            With what happened last years election and what Trump as been saying out in the open, I don’t know if an election will be fair or honored. I think were sinking fast, sold the buckets, and set the lifeboats on fire to try to stay dry.