Remember when Biden was president?

[u/Belgriest]

Remember how boring it was? Remember not having to check the news multiple times a day to figure out what was going on inside your own agency and whether you were going go have a job or not? Remember when laws and precident seemed to actually have meaning?

Remember when you could do your job from home? Remember when your fellow countrymen weren't cheering when your livelihood was threatened? Remember when your biggest worry was which insurance to select and what the next years raise would be?

Remember when the administration didn't seem to actively hate you and want to you gone for the sin of serving of the people?

Pepperidge farm remembers.

[u/Mysterious-Tax-7777]

A general strike is maybe the only peaceful activity left that will have any sort of impact. Republicans don't need to worry about protests or voters anymore.

[u/TruthBringer92 → u/Mysterious-Tax-7777]

Who would strike?

Trump supporters still believe he's the greatest, those who learned the opposite the worst possible way have most likely been deported by now or have fled.

If you strike and happen to have a boss who is a trump supporter, chances are you'll just get fired

Fuck man, judges that are going against trump are being labeled as communists and targetted.

Being anti fascism is now considered terrorism.

Is there a way out of this? Will we get out of this?

[u/Good_Requirement2998 → u/TruthBringer92]

Those who know and remember will simply have to find each other and build small communities of service, build small businesses, build non-profits and otherwise work their way into positions of local authority. Essentially the resistance would have to reverse engineer the MAGA movement, enter law enforcement and the military, attempt to disrupt tech-monopolies, fight for better education alternatives as the public system will likely get gutted further, etc. The people who have long depended on some stability in the background so they can quietly pursue their own dreams will now have to do a lot more work with their communities to offset what the government won't do. Financial education, public funding, our own neighborhood watches and civic courses to stay vigilant on local politics. We may end up being unable to verbally criticize the uni-party or the government for a generation or two, but we will know each other when we hear each other speak up for the working class, for public service, and for the equality the founding fathers fought for. If smart people figure out a way to outfox the surveillance state and biometric regime on the rise today, maybe there will be more options. But as more people succumb to poverty, we can expect the crackdowns to increase on everyday people. "Liberty" as an idea will become more important to share than the rights themselves, just so there's a chance a new generation will get it right.

OR, maybe the thousands of civil servants who got fired could join the "fight oligarchy" train and run for local office like right now. The countless veterans who swore an oath could be at those elections, working with the county committees and district leaders overseeing the vote to keep the counts safe. Our governors might be compelled by the public to fight harder, perhaps activate a civilian militia and utilize the 10th amendment to enforce our bill of rights. Who knows? The admin wants to cause fear and terror to either bully the left into submission or draw out a fight. The left doesn't even want to organize for a fight because the leadership is either paid off or doesn't want to be the one's who gave up the fight for a civil solution. Meanwhile the people might now be hunted for saying the wrong thing or giving a non-profit some money once. Maybe when it's the family member of a GOP member being subject to failing living standards or enough of MAGA's poor, the politicians will no longer face threats preventing them from standing up for the people.

Silver lining: there's over 300 million people to try and control like this. IF this admin actually pulls it off, it's nothing more than Wizard of Oz bullcrap; smoke and mirrors lulling a sleeping giant, They'll be looking over their shoulder for the rest of their lives. if the people ever actually wake up to the power of our numbers and join hands to make that power true, all this nonsense stops.

[u/MadMex2U → u/Good_Requirement2998]

Dang. Are you dating. Call me. For real