Just wondering, man. I mean, I’m willing to go to prison or die anyway- I can’t afford neither rent nor food in either case, so for me the equation isn’t super complex. Just wondering how much more we are going to spread our ass cheeks, my sphincter is getting pretty sore.

Edit: Just so we’re clear, don’t actually speak up or rise up or anything, violence has literally never solved a single problem in the history of mankind even once.

  • cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de
    23·
    2 days ago

    Yeah, it’s just gonna basically happen now. Things will have to turn much, much worse before a large enough number of people will be willing to risk their very existence. The US dropped democracy and it might take a long time before they get it back.

    • tomiant@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      81·
      2 days ago

      I mean I feel like at least getting my one last vote in the bucket before the thing goes, you know?

      • cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de
        17·
        2 days ago

        Voting in the midterms might be challenging enough. From the Wikipedia page about elections in 1933 Germany:

        The resources of big business and the state were thrown behind the Nazis’ campaign to achieve saturation coverage all over Germany. Brownshirts and SS patrolled and marched menacingly through the streets of cities and towns. A “combination of terror, repression and propaganda was mobilized in every… community, large and small, across the land”.[1]: 339  Irene von Goetz wrote, “In a decree issued on 17 February 1933, Göring ordered the Prussian police force to make unrestrained use of firearms in operations against political opponents (the so-called Schießerlass, or shooting decree)”.[4]

        To ensure a Nazi majority in the vote, Nazi organisations also “monitored” the vote process. In Prussia, 50,000 members of the SS, SA and Der Stahlhelm were ordered to monitor the votes as so-called deputy sheriffs or auxiliary police (Hilfspolizei) in another decree by acting Interior Minister Hermann Göring.[4]

        Full page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1933_German_federal_election

        • Coelacanth@feddit.nu
          13·
          2 days ago

          Trump also seems to like the classical dictator as a role model, so there is always the tried and true method of simply declaring a state of emergency and suspending elections.

        • tomiant@piefed.socialOPEnglish
          31·
          2 days ago

          Yeah I mean we already have all that. What are they gonna pull that they haven’t already?

      • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        510·
        2 days ago

        “I mean, I would rather sleepwalk into fascism than put myself on the line to stop it.”

        That’s what you said.