Of Course It's a Coup
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Of Course It's a Coup
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#2If it is a coup, it can be easily stopped if Congress and the Courts get off their butts and do something. How about force Musk to testify under oath in Congress.
Oh, it was tried but the GOP blocked it.
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#3Can’t get over “Skibidi Hitler”
anyway yeah, it’s been clear.
There really wasn’t any nuance in what he did.
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#4It's a coup that is being allowed and empowered by the party that already controls all 3 branches of government. It's very clear what's happening: what's less clear to me is how to stop it.
EDIT: this post keeps getting flagged. The techbros who are currently destroying our democracy are upset that they're being called out.
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#5If it is a coup, it can be easily stopped if Congress and the Courts get off their butts and do something. How about force Musk to testify under oath in Congress. Oh, it was tried but the GOP blocked it.
Bunch of sycophants who are willing to sell out our democracy for some twitter likes.
Edit: The post is flagged. Glad we have nothing to worry about. No discussion necessary.
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#6For context, the author is a historian specialized in the mechanisms of authoritarianism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Snyder
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#7It's a coup that is being allowed and empowered by the party that already controls all 3 branches of government. It's very clear what's happening: what's less clear to me is how to stop it. EDIT: this post keeps getting flagged. The techbros who are currently destroying our democracy are upset that they're being called out.
The current US president was voted for by just 23.1% of the US population. I am not adjusting for eligible voters, but there is no sweeping mandate regardless of what anyone would have you believe.
They are certainly trying to make it seem that way. Bluster tricks fools. What to do about is to call your representatives, boycott companies if necessary, and cast an informed vote in local, state, and federal elections every chance you have.
And it is shameful this submission was flagged successfully. It is a high quality, factual, and relevant article. I'm embarrassed to be a member of this site today.
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#8One torment on an individual level, is that none of us have any particular agency to do anything about it. Not alone, not even with many. Overwhelming numbers accompanied by intense societal disfunction could, maybe, possibly work. Signs and angry chants won't stop these loons. Strategic occupations might help, like MLK overburdening jails during sit-ins, but even that is an annoyance they will put down violently if it inconveniences people in the west wing. Be very careful.
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#10One torment on an individual level, is that none of us have any particular agency to do anything about it. Not alone, not even with many. Overwhelming numbers accompanied by intense societal disfunction could, maybe, possibly work. Signs and angry chants won't stop these loons. Strategic occupations might help, like MLK overburdening jails during sit-ins, but even that is an annoyance they will put down violently if…
You seem to be under the impression that this isn’t what the majority wants? You also have the owner of one social media company embedded in the White House and the other just paid tribute to Trump to “settle a lawsuit” as well as ABC, CNN and CBS bowing to him and paying him off to “settle a lawsuit”.
The opposition are a bunch of disorganized wimps that don’t know how to play dirty. They are still playing by the old rules.
Yes I’m well aware of civil rights history. My still living parents grew up in the Jim Crow south.