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Fancy idea, how about power to the people... (infosec.pub)

submitted 7 months ago by NichEherVielleicht@feddit.org to c/politicalhumor@lemmy.world

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 109 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Could we not? Let's celebrate yesterday's achievement. We had a day where Idaho, fucking Idaho, filled their capitol. It remained peaceful so trump couldn't do a military coup as well. Let's take the win.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I want the win to mean something. The only concern that I think is valid so far is that there do not appear to be (m)any elected officials backing any policy in specific tandem with these protests.

I just don't want to see popular sentiment and political movement crash out into nothingness and a backlash like Occupy Wall Street.

[–] witten@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Read this for info about the purpose of the recent protests within the greater resistance.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 months ago

Thanks for posting this.

For the would-be dictator, success depends on projecting power and creating an aura of inevitability. They need you to believe that Trump is the new normal, that the MAGA movement will be in power for the long haul, that the only rational move is to go along, keep your head down, and protect your own interests.

In short, it requires a countless number of people in a countless number of places to do something that the Trump regime doesn’t want them to do, or to NOT do something the Trump regime wants them to do. That’s how we shake off the aura of inevitability and halt the autocratic breakthrough.

For that to happen, people need to feel like we’re part of something bigger. We need to understand that we’re part of a movement. We need to feel like we will win.

[–] andyburke@fedia.io 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How are we feeling today?

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Good, and you?

[–] andyburke@fedia.io 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Like it's happening again.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's hard over text, what are you trying to say?

[–] andyburke@fedia.io 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I am touching base with a thread I remember. You felt that I should have passed on my analysis. I worry that in the intervening time, my analysis seems to be bearing out. I don't want it to be this way. I would love for there to be something else happening here.

How can we make it so it's not just like last time all over again?

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

I still think we should be celebrating that as a win. Yes, it's all happening all over again and probably worse. The corporations are bending the knee just like the Russian companies did for Putin. We're in a deep load of shit, but shitting on the only thing we can do, doesn't help.