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If you mean the current US election, absolutely nothing. Americans need to suffer at least for a short while to truly understand what they have done. Once the American people are willing to accept reason then any method of resistance from civil disobedience to revolution becomes acceptable.

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Suffering people vote for authoritarians.

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I’m not as optimistic about that as you are. The average person only knows what they’re told and as long as the right controls the narrative in their homes they’re going to think ‘liberals’ and ‘illegals’ and ‘trans’ are causing their pain, no matter how bad it gets.

Maybe some pain is what they need to snap out of this, but they also need a trusted voice to tell them the truth about who is doing it to them. Right now that person doesn’t exist in a vast swath of American homes.

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Americans need to suffer at least for a short while to truly understand what they have done.

Americans need to suffer at least for a short while

to truly understand that they are victims of a deeply, deeply flawed electoral system that can only result in fascism in its current state.

FTFY

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Even if you’d get a vengeance kick out of it, the suffering won’t produce the good results you want.

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If history is repeated isn’t it more likely that it results in a one party nation that isn’t taken down unless a foreign country intervenes militarily?

These type of movements seem to lean towards one that as reflective of what the people of the country want with the initial stages more downplaying people’s worst criticisms until power is successfully seized from all corners of that country’s government.

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I would get into fierce arguments on the internet to insist that we must vote for the lesser of two evils every election so that we get that dictatorship a little later instead of right now.

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If Trump had lost, second time in a row, it could have well been the end of him. Big enough loss and it could have been end of the whole movement. Republicans could have come back to the centre. If you didn’t vote Harris, Trump is your fault. The system is completely broken, but it’s still what you have. Campaign for a better system while voting for the least bad. Enjoy your Trump.

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I voted for Harris, but obviously that didn’t work out, did it? If you honestly think republicans would go back to the center after trump is gone then you don’t understand republicans.

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I think a lot of people say out this election. They can’t then complain they got Trump. I don’t understand Trump Republicans, but that’s not all Republicans.

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The kingdom of Korea will not fall tonight!

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Mass murder

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I wouldn’t. I’d just move somewhere else.

Why? Because whatever I do to attempt to stop the transition will be much less effective on obtaining quality of life improvements for myself and my loved ones than moving somewhere else. And that’s not even going into the risks of attempting to get between a potential dictator and their power.

Votes are individually irrelevant. Protests are ignored, even if massive. Opinions and relevant facts to change opinions are lost in a sea of extremely well funded narrative-affirming propaganda. Civil disobedience will get you nothing but legal trouble. Strikes are broken.

Let’s be real. There is nothing that can be done, realistically, as an individual without an extraordinary amount of political capital, money or military influence.

Anything short of a huge chunk of the armed forces organizing an armed coup is completely irrelevant.

The only realistic solution is jumping ship.

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And what country is going to accept mass political refugees from the USA?

You make it sound like that’s an easy option that everyone has.

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I believe I was asked what I personally would do and USA was never mentioned.

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That’s fair. I feel really frustrated that I can see what’s happening and have what feels like no options at all to deal with it.

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Well, first I’d fight off speech censorship. We effectively did that through one man, so in that sense we were very lucky.

Look at England right now. They’re ahead of us a few years into censorship because they didn’t have the guy we do. People going to prison for social media posts. Wild

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Tf are you even trying to say? Use some details. Who’s we? Who’s the one man? Who’s us? The guy I’m assuming is the one man from earlier??? Who’s going to prison?

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