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Lots of really good thought here:
"One thing that unites them is their distaste for violence."
RT: https://poa.st/objects/7dffeea3-130f-41f9-856d-060063e22110
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@EvilSandmich @sickburnbro We've known this for YEARS now. The issue at hand is every single person on our side would rather attempt yet another political movement that will inevitably fail than actually do something, even though the methods of power employed by the regime have been proven to be weak and susceptible to non-violent, mostly anonymous methods of destruction. Yes, this is a "you won't do shit," post, and I'm speaking to myself too.
They have done an excellent job of keeping us just comfortable enough to not revolt, and as long as the lights stay on, I doubt that will change.
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@boeswilligkeit @EvilSandmich People who like civilization not that interested in burning down a civilization, SHOCKING!
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@sickburnbro It's not my bag, and this is not a fedpoast, but to his point I do want to note that it wouldn't take much coordinated violence to throw the GAE state into a panic. The regime has gotten extremely lucky that, thus far, they haven't driven a half dozen dudes of a like mind together to give it grief.
The secret police seem powerful, but if sh!t goes sideways there's not nearly enough, not even 10% of enough. This site says that there's about 140K federal law enforcement officers, but it looks like it includes layabouts like the TSA (U.S. troop deployment in Iraq peaked at about the same number, for all the good it did):https://www.ojp.gov/library/publications/federal-law-enforcement-officers-2020-statistical-tables
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@EvilSandmich @sickburnbro It's partially due to psychology: we crave certainty. We know exactly how bad the next month under the boot of ZOG will be, but we have no idea how bad (or how much better) a month post-zog could be. Additionally, very few of us are prepared for life in a post-society world. Few can comprehend how a winter without heating in the midwest is like, or what it feels like to truly be hungry.
If you could get enough people to do [the thing], it's a one way switch. There is no going back after you pull the trigger, further compounding the fear of uncertainty. And if you don't pull it off, you'll be in jail for a very long time.
Implications: it's gonna have to get way, way worse before anyone does anything. That being said, I still hold to my prediction that none of us will be able to post here in 2025.
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@boeswilligkeit @sickburnbro Another piece is that we're at the end of Western Political Ideology. After several centuries The Enlightenment is just a fart-sniffing corpse and it's competing ideologies are covered with dust and have insufficient appeal for radical action. Fukuyama was right, just in the wrong direction because it looks like Eastern Autocracy all the way down.
> I still hold to my prediction that none of us will be able to post here in 2025.
I would agree that's inevitable, or it's going to be double-VPNing into some dubious server in Iceland. Even in the best case scenario where some hunta closely aligned with our own views gets in they're not going to tolerate even semi-open dissent (they probably couldn't afford to).
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@EvilSandmich @boeswilligkeit right. it's like I was saying before. Conservatives have agreed shit is fucked for a while, but they've been asking for intricate details about how you are going to fix it, for years.
They've recently graduated to the "yeah, fuck it" school.
That's what the whole abbott thing is. "Ok, you going to force the border open? I'm going to fucking stuff it in your face at my own cost"
Bread up, Bro
Ares :sonnenrad:
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