Member when England thought Hitler wasn’t that bad and had “peace in our time?”

Or when the “free world” sat back and let the anarchists lose the Spanish civil war because anarchism was scarier than fascism to them?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

"rest of the world" should ask what their leaders are doing to stop Trump instead of hoping only for Americans to stop him. Keeping US in NATO, and saying nothing about Venezuela and Gaza/Iran, and submitting to absurd rationale for accepting tariffs that will reduce their own economic resilience is simply emboldening Trump's abuse of them. It doesn't matter if US manufacturing keeps declining, as long as the colonies tacitly agree with how evil they were to America all along, and how much they enslave their people to supporting what are always US wars, but now with the colonies suffering all the death and damage.

We collectively have the power to collapse the US. Not doing so, emboldens the US into unlimited oppressive power over us. No amount of slaps or harder slaps stops you from being a bitch.

We've got the same answer. He controls the military and the police are on his side. I'm not looking to die today.

This is supposed to be political humor? I don't see what's funny about this. It's a question that a lot of rational US-ians have been grappling with for at least a year now and I can't be the only one that's kept up at night thinking of how powerless I am in this situation.

It's a valid question for sure, but it doesn't fit this community.

Not to forget that today's Germany has a massive right shift on its own, including deportation, militarization, uncritical support of a settler colonial project and in that context restriction of freedom of speech and police brutality. #neveragainisnow

I thought this was for political humor

So, even for those that are comfortable, any employer that has done proper risk control will have hired a service that alerts them to any criminal activity of its employees, including arrests at protests, and will fire arrested employees. Plus, we live in a prison state.

So would you risk your next 9 meals, freedom, plus the well-being of your dependants?

Plus like the other person said, he has the police on his side, and the military under his control.

There are ways, still. Not giving up yet!

People need to understand that USA is a superpower. And most importantly, USA owns the western world. Most trade happens in dollars. Without USA the western world will collapse. USA has lot of military power in the world. If USA leaves NATO then NATO will become powerless. That's why nobody wants to confront trump or any other USA president. The western world wants to be in the good side of USA.

It’s impossible for me personally because roughly everyone I know falls into one of two camps

1. they’re comfortable and their status quo isn’t challenged. They know where their next 9 meals are coming from, and aren’t at Risk of losing employment/residence/ability to feed themselves.

2. living pay check to pay check, constant fear of not being able to make rent/bills/groceries.

You can’t organize group 1 because they have something to lose and aren’t personally affected. You can’t organize group 2 because they don’t have time, and something like getting arrested at a protest could cost their job/residence/next meal, even when the charges are dropped.

Maybe someone more intelligent and charismatic than me has a shot, but I don’t know how to tell group 1 to risk their safety and the safety of their families for others, or group 2 to risk homelessness, all relying on trust in others.

We need never be afraid of the vote of informed Americans. It is only the ignorant voter we have to fear, ignorant politically, no matter how fine his house or how expensive his schooling. Such people have never experienced democracy; they have merely enjoyed its benefits. It is hard to explain what democracy is; it is necessary to participate in it to understand it.

The former Berlin businessman I referred to earlier told me that he blamed his own group, people with the time and the money and the opportunity to know better, for what happened to Germany. "We ignored Hitler," he said. "We considered him an unimportant fellow, not quite a gentleman, not of our own class. We considered it just a little bit vulgar to bother with him, to bother with politics at all."

They thought of the government as "They." The only possible route to a clear conscience in politics is to accept political responsibility, either as an active member of the party in power or as an equally active member of the loyal opposition.

--Robert A Heinlein, Take Back Your Government

Capitalism in the US is in crisis, just as it was in the Weimar Republic before the rise of Hitler.

Everyone is too busy trying to survive/escape the crisis, no one is working to improve things.

Americans are helpless to stop the rise of fascism.

In the Third Reich, resistance was a considerable risk to life and limb very soon (less than a year) after Hitler seized power due to the totalitarian tyranny. This is not yet the case in the US, but it is clear that work is also being done here to expand totalitarianism with all its repressive measures. Therefore, one must assume that things will only get worse - likely much worse.

It is sad that a whole year of government by a regime that can only be described as organized crime has not been enough to mobilize massive resistance - not even documents showing how the state protects a pedophile ring, or rather, makes it possible in the first place.

The population still has the opportunity to turn the tide, but since it is not doing so, the repressive methods of totalitarian dictatorships will probably soon be in place - and then resistance will mean harsh discrimination, internment, or even death. Then the US will be like Russia, where resistance, which of course exists, is suppressed by force.

I consider this to be the most probable scenario and the logical consequence, considering what US citizens allow their government to get away with.

What should I be personally doing? I am also being persecuted. Should I apply for attic openings? Idk man

Bars.

I see a lot of people outside the USA confused at why we have autocrat when we have gun. I will explain to you the three main archetypes we're dealing with. First is the has gun, is pro autocrat. They supported this mess in and will die to defend it. The has gun, is against autocrat. They worked against this through the system because the third group said to do so and limits their ability to be effective. The third group has no gun, but wants stability still. They impeded the second group from doing anything because they will pearl grab and support the first when the second tries to do so. It has happened in the past and will in the future. Until that third group gets their collective craniums out of their rectums they'll impede the second group and support the first indirectly.