A Coup Is In Progress In America

[chobeat@lemmy.ml]

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[datendefekt@feddit.org]

The rule of law has eroded. You have a convicted felon in office who has brushed away an impeachment and is in control of all branches of government. So what is next now?

[hamartia@lemmy.world]

A general strike is your only hand. So start prepping for that.

[dremor@lemmy.world]

As a Frenchman, I concur. All the nice things we have are thanks to relentless strikes.

[eril@feddit.org]

I mean, yes it is. But how is that "technology"?

[dogpeepoo@lemm.ee]

Coup d'éfat

[chobeat@lemmy.ml]

The coup Is mostly through digital means at the moment. They are seizing IT systems and firing sysadmins who do not comply. It's totally about technology, because this is the first coup done in a fully-digitalized global power and it looks nothing like the ones we have seen recently.

[sanpo@sopuli.xyz]

I thought coups are generally illegal and involve a military action.

This just looks like a legally elected politician doing exactly what he promised.
It may not be good things, but none of that was unexpected.

[andsens@lemmy.world]

After the USAID thing I called it this morning: Before the end of march the U.S. is a dictatorship in all but name.
To pull this off things have to happen fast, denying anybody the time to react.

USAID was a probing attack, gauge the reactions, develop plans, figure out how to do it better with the next department. You don't start with Homeland Security, the CIA, or the FBI - that's the final part.

Meanwhile, keep everybody busy with 50 different crazy things so they can't organize a concerted effort to resist.
That being said, I'm only half-sold on Greenland and the Panama Canal being a distraction. Once you have complete control you're at the whim of Denmark not revoking access to Thule and Panama not denying passage. Might be both, confuse and prepare.

[hanke@feddit.nu]

I agree with the text, but it is very repetitively written

[chobeat@lemmy.ml]

Not everybody likes information density. Different targets, different styles.

[damage@feddit.it]

You should check out how Mussolini came to power.

Long story short: he marched on Rome with a handful of wackos, the royal army absolutely had the power to wipe them out without breaking a sweat, but the king decided that baldy was a cool guy and handed him the government. Many people liked him.

Hardly a military action, and he went on to govern for 20 years, a streak that stopped only because he chose to stand on the wrong side of history, unlike, say, Franco.

[chobeat@lemmy.ml]

After the USAID thing I called it this morning: Before the end of march the U.S. is a dictatorship in all but name.

You're optimistic. Yarvinists are openly advocating for dictatorship.

USAID was a probing attack, gauge the reactions, develop plans, figure out how to do it better with the next department. You don’t start with Homeland Security, the CIA, or the FBI - that’s the final part.

Well, debatable. Purging the secret services first is always a great idea when you're doing a coup.

[chobeat@lemmy.ml]

What's happening is wildly inconstitutional and violent in nature. It's just not military violence for a military coup. Not all coups involve the military, that, if anything, here might be a stabilizing force.

[ragnarokonline@programming.dev]

Couldn’t agree more. Good message, but pontificating as hell.

[0x0@programming.dev]

So what is next now?

Where are all the law-abiding citizens clamoring that their 2A defends them from the government?

[0x0@programming.dev]

how Mussolini came to power.

Or Hitler. Orban, most of the right on the rise in the EU right now...

[fourpacketsofpeanuts@lemmy.world]

It is a coup if people vote for it?

[chobeat@lemmy.ml]

yes. That's how Mussolini and Hitler got into power.

[transplantedsconie@lemm.ee]

Staying silent. All the dipshits openly showing what they have will be snapped up quickly and messily.