The Cold War? Child’s play compared to what lies ahead, according to U.S. historian Robert Kagan. Trump, he says, is leading the world into the most dangerous era since 1945.
The Cold War? Child’s play compared to what lies ahead, according to U.S. historian Robert Kagan. Trump, he says, is leading the world into the most dangerous era since 1945.
It is without resistance. The citizens offer protest while the Democratic Party looks out for their retirement checks. The protest has been ineffective other than getting press and bringing out trump’s goon squad.
Ineffective my ass. And without resistance my ass. This is not an overt battle. We can’t win by just popping these motherfuckers. We’d be decimated. Just because you don’t see people throwing their lives away like fodder doesn’t mean that there isn’t motion. Legal cases are being made. Decentralized, encrypted services are being utilized to coordinate resources, track feds, communicate with families who need security, and I’m sure a shit ton more initiatives.
Protests, though simply overtly showing contempt, is making ICE despise the work they do and are at least forced the regime’s hand to show boat change. Not substantially, but not nothing.
But don’t you dare say there isn’t resistance. People are giving their time, energy, and when the time actually demands it, their lives. Fuck you for basically spitting on Alex Pretti’s grave
Ok, without effective resistance.
Tell me what has changed due to the protests that is stopping trump and the rest of the regime. Be specific.
Trump & the Republicans are currently more powerful than people carrying signs. Thus, it’s pointless for people to protest. Is that your point?
You think forcing a binary choice wins the argument? One absolutely can appreciate public protest and also understand it isn’t stopping the oligarchs and fascist takeover. I can. Can you?
It’s not an argument, and not to be won.
Protests are not going to be the engine that changes these things. That requires the cunt in office to give a damn about the people he’s oppressing. That said, I don’t think they’re worthless. They’re the engine that is overtly saying and doing what others are feeling. To me, it’s inspiring. Not in a “I wanna be just like them yelling in the streets 😍”, but it’s motivational to see people going through so much effort just to spite what’s going on.
That in turn inspires the lawyers donating their time and talents to build solid cases against agents and the regime. There ARE armed militias in the street that ARE lowering the presence of feds, but not in the states that don’t allow open carry (which kills me living in Minnesota). Communities are effectively coordinating via channels the government can’t view to keep families safe moving from point A to B and move food and goods to those families, citizen or not.
Also keep in mind that in order to effectively resist against a military powerhouse that also has access to an ungodly amount of corporate databases to unjustly track and monitor people’s activity, the only EFFECTIVE option of resistance is clandestine operations using encrypted, decentralized services. So you and I ain’t seeing the whole host of resistance. Which IS a good thing.
And let’s keep in mind that we’re on the Fediverse for a reason. Even if methods of resistance are visible, social media algorithms aren’t showing it. Cable news isn’t covering it. There are a handful of actually decent investigative journalists and even then, sensationalism is king, their story will get swept away.
So just because you don’t SEE it doesn’t mean it ain’t happening
If it can’t be seen you can’t prove it is changing things. You don’t get it both ways saying it’s invisible to me but somehow isn’t invisible for you.
Look deeper. There have been underground resistance groups that have formed and taken action using new tech to organize and communicate.
With those tools and groups in place, and with their practice using them to organize group action, they are in a key position to lead more overt resistance operations going forwards… As well as provide guidance and support to other groups that form in other areas as they naturally will.
A similar get up to the underground railroads and zines of years past, that, in those days, provided platforms for organization, expansion, and brought up the historical resistance leaders we can still read about today.
Those leaders and actions don’t just pop up and happen spontaneously, even though it may appear that way when you only read about them and the outcome of those events in history classes.
There’s a whole process to the buildup that has often taken years, sometimes decades, but can now occur much quicker due to our modern resources.
When, or if, a time comes when the scales tip and people turn to more overt action, the systems needed to ensure they are noteworthy will already be in place, I assure you.
There’s no need to rush it ATM.
Haste makes waste, as they say.
But there’s always a breaking point, and we vary well may hit it.