This LPT doesn’t violate the community rule against illegal advice because in this purely hypothetical scenario the law means nothing
Or also on a related note, do not obey in advance. If they want to disallow peaceful protests, make them actually have to do it and don’t just assume they will. Make them have to choose which fights they really want to have. They still changed course on a total funding freeze after enough pushback and after getting blocked in the courts. There is still fight left. Cynicism and dooming is what they want you to have.
Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.
lol “hypothetical”
but yea, it’s important to clarify reality: the law means nothing to fascists. those same laws still apply to you.
LPT: Vote Democrat next time instead of refusing cuz “I’m sick of voting for the lesser evil.”
TBF, I think we’ll still have elections next time. Even Russia still technically has elections.
Note, I’m not making any arguments about how legitimate those elections are going to be…
legitimacy can be seen as a scale. In the last 19 years the US has never been the most legitimate democracy but i dont think it could have been considered “undemocratic” or autocratic since the end of the civil rights movement either.
Democrats have failed you. They’re just the sugarcoated version of republicans.
LPT: demand to actually have a choice in your political system
This is what happens when one party gets complete control of government
When one particular party does, yes. The last time the Democrats had this much control they passed the civil rights act.
The last time the Democrats had this much control
It was 2021…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_divisions_of_United_States_Congresses
But they choose to “look into” things till that inaction gave Republicans control of the House, and they stopped pretending to even look into things.
.it’s the danger of the only option to fascism being “maintain status quo and profits”.
Not accurate. In 2021 the Supreme Court was split 6-3 in Republican favor.
Also, the Senate was super split with 50 Republicans, 48 Democrats, and 2 Independent Senators (who, although they caucused with the Democrats, wouldn’t necessarily vote in lockstep) – and two of the Democrats (Manchin and Sinema) seemed more interested in obstructing things than in the party’s agenda.
You’d have a better argument if you’d brought up the ACA, IMO. The numbers in Congress favored the Dems more in 2009-2011.
When they want to do things.
Four years ago the other party had the same, but they didn’t want to do anything.
Which depressed turnout, and allowed this to happen.
Four years ago the other party had the same
As noted elsewhere in the thread, this is blatantly untrue.
As noted elsewhere in the thread,
That was you’re own rambling unsourced interpretation…
And now you’re acting like it’s a source?
Pakistan: Can’t complain about Martial Law if we never declare it and just shoot people instead
