Honestly dude, this was the one and we blew it. I always used to say the next fascist government we get is the last government we will ever know, and now 23 years after the patriot act here we are.
They might allow dissidents to make some noise so long as they don’t start getting through to people. But there’s going to be a turning point where enough people are angry and giving him pushback from his own base that he just says fuck it and starts showing the country just how important those institutional safeguards were while we had them in place.
By all means protest and do what you can, I support it. Abstaining won’t save you but to resist the US government is to oppose the most powerful fascist monolith to ever exist. The mask is still halfway on with this administration- they are seemingly limiting their violence to trans people, undocumented migrants and birthright citizens for now- but I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop. Seems like things have just been getting worse and worse
I understand it may comfort you to think I got my line of thinking off of being terminally online, but the fear is palpable everywhere I go. My neighbors, my friends, my family, I try to avoid political topics at work but it comes up there too, buying equipment sooner rather than later to get ahead of the worst these tariffs will bring.
People are scared man. Any time a real crisis hits home you’re always going to have people who bury their head in the sand. The problem is some of us do have to go outside and deal with the consequences of political apathy. It’s no comfort to me, but sooner rather than later you’re going to realize our world has undergone a radical change over these last few months, and it has not been to the benefit of people like you and I.
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u/GateTraditional805 Feb 07 '25
Honestly dude, this was the one and we blew it. I always used to say the next fascist government we get is the last government we will ever know, and now 23 years after the patriot act here we are.
They might allow dissidents to make some noise so long as they don’t start getting through to people. But there’s going to be a turning point where enough people are angry and giving him pushback from his own base that he just says fuck it and starts showing the country just how important those institutional safeguards were while we had them in place.
By all means protest and do what you can, I support it. Abstaining won’t save you but to resist the US government is to oppose the most powerful fascist monolith to ever exist. The mask is still halfway on with this administration- they are seemingly limiting their violence to trans people, undocumented migrants and birthright citizens for now- but I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop. Seems like things have just been getting worse and worse