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Is that you, Kamala?

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after all other options are exhausted civil disobedience is the only thing left

examples would include handing about abortion pills in illegal states

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Yes, this makes sense! Hopefully while doing so one could build a coalition that includes more and more people.

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At least 30,000,000 people protesting non violently for a year, hoping no war will erupt. This might help

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Yes, if that many people would do that it could make a huge difference

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“Protesting” isn’t what we need. We need them running for office, whether that is president, senator, congressperson, or even for the local school board: a lot of those lower officers will move up over time.

Just like the remnants of the Tea Party took over the GOP, we need a “Guillotine Party” to redirect the Democrats to focus on the robber baron billionaire class.

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That’s the next step. But running for office is far from being enough without an engaged base, and you get this by sustained protests and other non violent means. Especially if you’re facing a regime with fascist aspirations. Soon it might be too late

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You say that as if dictators, by their nature, aren’t going to sneak up on us. The question, sadly, should be what we would do once one reveals themselves, and the answer to that is in a battle of wit VS law.

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Dictatorships are built on narratives. To stop them one must break their narrative, which is an iterative process—they’ll change the narrative to explain away new developments, but if you force them to keep making changes faster than their adherents can absorb them, their shared reality will fall apart.

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I feel this is really the most important answer here. We must break the false narratives that they use to hold power.

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And nothing does that better than video evidence. Fortunately, virtually every cell phone still in existence can record video.

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but the problem now is we are in the age of “ai” & fake videos.

They will just claim everything is fake (while claiming their own fake videos are real and the only Truth).

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Ding Ding Ding! This right here. Unfortunately, they say one thing one day, and the opposite the other, and know their followers will latch onto the answer they want to believe/be true. It is exactly how religions work too.

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They’ve given up on narratives and now say lots of conflicting things to overload your brain.

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