A Coup Is In Progress In America

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• datendefekt@feddit.org ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The rule of law has eroded. You have a convicted felon in office who has brushed away an impeachment and is in control of all branches of government. So what is next now?

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  • Hamartia@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    A general strike is your only hand. So start prepping for that.

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    • Dremor@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      As a Frenchman, I concur. All the nice things we have are thanks to relentless strikes.

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  • 0x0@programming.dev ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So what is next now?

    Where are all the law-abiding citizens clamoring that their 2A defends them from the government?

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    • TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Staying silent. All the dipshits openly showing what they have will be snapped up quickly and messily.

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• andsens@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  After the USAID thing I called it this morning: Before the end of march the U.S. is a dictatorship in all but name.
  To pull this off things have to happen fast, denying anybody the time to react.

  USAID was a probing attack, gauge the reactions, develop plans, figure out how to do it better with the next department. You don’t start with Homeland Security, the CIA, or the FBI - that’s the final part.

  Meanwhile, keep everybody busy with 50 different crazy things so they can’t organize a concerted effort to resist.
  That being said, I’m only half-sold on Greenland and the Panama Canal being a distraction. Once you have complete control you’re at the whim of Denmark not revoking access to Thule and Panama not denying passage. Might be both, confuse and prepare.

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  • chobeat@lemmy.ml ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    After the USAID thing I called it this morning: Before the end of march the U.S. is a dictatorship in all but name.

    You’re optimistic. Yarvinists are openly advocating for dictatorship.

    USAID was a probing attack, gauge the reactions, develop plans, figure out how to do it better with the next department. You don’t start with Homeland Security, the CIA, or the FBI - that’s the final part.

    Well, debatable. Purging the secret services first is always a great idea when you’re doing a coup.

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• FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It is a coup if people vote for it?

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  • chobeat@lemmy.ml ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    yes. That’s how Mussolini and Hitler got into power.

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    • FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      My history might be dusty but I don’t think Hitler ever said he intended to become a dictator before people voted for him. His deception is what you might refer to as the coup.

      Trump on the other hand…

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  • WhiteRice@lemmy.ml ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No then it’s just sparkling treason.

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• sanpo@sopuli.xyz ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I thought coups are generally illegal and involve a military action.

  This just looks like a legally elected politician doing exactly what he promised.
  It may not be good things, but none of that was unexpected.

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  • chobeat@lemmy.ml ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What’s happening is wildly inconstitutional and violent in nature. It’s just not military violence for a military coup. Not all coups involve the military, that, if anything, here might be a stabilizing force.

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  • Damage@feddit.it ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You should check out how Mussolini came to power.

    Long story short: he marched on Rome with a handful of wackos, the royal army absolutely had the power to wipe them out without breaking a sweat, but the king decided that baldy was a cool guy and handed him the government. Many people liked him.

    Hardly a military action, and he went on to govern for 20 years, a streak that stopped only because he chose to stand on the wrong side of history, unlike, say, Franco.

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    • 0x0@programming.dev ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      how Mussolini came to power.

      Or Hitler. Orban, most of the right on the rise in the EU right now…

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• Humanius@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And Americans are seemingly too cowardly to do anything about it. For the love of God defend your democracy. Protest!

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• hanke@feddit.nu ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I agree with the text, but it is very repetitively written

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  • RagnarokOnline@programming.dev ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Couldn’t agree more. Good message, but pontificating as hell.

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  • chobeat@lemmy.ml ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not everybody likes information density. Different targets, different styles.

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• DogPeePoo@lemm.ee ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Coup d’éfat

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