If we have a government in four years, we should see some dramatic changes. 2028 can't come soon enough. I'm beyond enraged. Its so embarrassing to be an American right now. I feel so horrible for what our idiot leadership is doing. It sucks ass
You're stupid if you think this ever goes back to the way it was. You need to unduck the country now. No more waiting no more hesitating. You want a better life take it. Take your power. No one else can.
What's that look like? I'm not being facetious. I want to do something meaningful and the only answers I've gotten are "donate to causes, volunteer, protest"
Disclaimer: I'm not telling you what to do, I'm just listing things that happened in the past of our world history.
When people were ruled/oppressed by injustice, they usually took the only power they had. Numbers.
If countries were to change from the inside, this usually meant that the 99% stood up and revolted. Often leading to a revolution or civil war.
One of the most famous examples would be the French Revolution, which lead to the broad usage of inventions like the Guillotine.
But there are examples, where the numbers just weren't there, due to brainwashing and propaganda. So the change had to come from the outside.
If the change came from the outside, this actually meant war and parts of the oppressed people usually joined some form of antifascist/antiauthoritarian resistance.
One of the most famous wars in this case was World War 2, which lead to the (temporary) denazification of Germany.
Considering around a third of this country actually wanted Trump in charge, and another third didn't care enough to try to stop that from happening, I really don't think we have the numbers.
If intervention didn't come from the outside, things usually needed to get worse for everyone under the regime until they finally woke up. So yeah, people need to be personally affected by the government.
Protests were usually ridiculed but they always grew. Usually to the point where protesting was forbidden/prohibited, sometimes by force.
Often at this point everything tipped over and revolution came. But there are examples where people feared the government enough to afterwards accept defeat and live under the oppression unfortunately. China and the Tian'anmen massacre are an example for that.
I think we need to hit rock bottom to get enough people to wake up, and unfortunately, I don't think we're there yet. It's going to get worse. I just hope we don't bring the rest of the world down with us
We hope so too.
At least some of us.
Here in Germany we also face the issue that our "conservative" party is turning towards our fascist party for support, maybe even the next government... They (conservatives) are very Trump friendly, the fascist openly support him and are supported by Musk...
Dismantle fear. Support only people you believe in. Stop buying from mega corporations and only fund employee owned companies.
Buy a LORA, decentralize your communications from mega corporations that sell your data.
Organize with like-minded people. Grow your own food. Learn to provide and protect yourself.
Also I'm hoping to get chickens, but I'm probably not going to be able to grow my own food in the city.
I know that in The Churn, tribes get smaller... But I also would like to stay a part of society. That's like half the point of living in the city for me
Unpopular take: This is what the 2nd amendment was meant for but it seems the past govt did it right by arming the police n making the citizens cower in fear…
If nothing else, there should be some sort of failsafe which would protect democracy. There should already have been a seal team 6 curing the acute lead deficiency.
He tried to do an insurrection without the political infrastructure to pull it off. He will 100% do it again, and the people who stopped him last time won't be there. I'm sorry to be crass, but your only hope is his death before then. Ideally sooner rather than later so there's less opportunity for Conservatives to ride the wave of sentimentality.
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u/ExpressBug8265 Feb 28 '25
If we have a government in four years, we should see some dramatic changes. 2028 can't come soon enough. I'm beyond enraged. Its so embarrassing to be an American right now. I feel so horrible for what our idiot leadership is doing. It sucks ass