I believe in the 2nd Amendment, but certainly NOT to overthrow the government for light and transient causes. I don’t take Trump lightly, but he hasn’t turned into a total despot yet. There is grave risk, but there’s also a chance his abuses will lead to reforms that limit Executive branch powers. I think many non-Republicans like our guns as much as Republicans, but we don’t bluster about them and unlike Republicans we don’t rebel because our candidate lost an election.

Protests are not going to work when they’re holding all our money,

To my knowledge they haven't frozen any critics' assets, although I put nothing past them.

Look buddy, let me make this kindergarten simple:

• Clicking "like" on protest posts = playing pretend revolution
• Actually changing things = learning how stuff works and building better systems

Catch my drift or need me to use smaller words?

Getting voted in is NOT permission to break the law.

He's illegally bypassing Congress with his actions. Doesn't matter if this is what your dumbass voted for, it's not how this works.

Every suppressed vote is as fraudulent as any fake vote.

You mean "viable candidates" like Clinton, Biden, and Harris who can't win elections and put Israel, corporations, genocide, and xenophobia before the American people? These candidates who would gladly let Republicans take over the entire government if it means they don't have to turn their backs on fascist leaders and their wealthy masters?

The Democratic leadership are more interested in enabling the right than opposing them, which is why we all witnessed your "only choice" spend her campaign attacking immigrants and the working class and promoting human slaughter while touring around with the fucking Cheneys. This is why they crushed the only candidate who actually inspired voters in 2016 over the candidate who would get Donald Trump elected the first time. This is why they're standing around now making empty statements of "concern" while the government is being dismantled literally feet away from them.

What the fuck are you doing to prepare for 2026 other than demanding that everything remain exactly how it is now and attacking anyone who says otherwise?

We truly are fucked if you reflect the nation as a whole because all you are is the controlled opposition arm of the Republican party. You only exist to give the voting process an air of legitimacy when the outcome has already been decided beforehand.

This is the most frustrating thing about this administration: They are showing that you CAN do things. Democrats sit on their asses for four years, and Trump did all this in less than a month. Democrats better get their steel toe fucking boots on and kick these conservatives fucks in the sick.

ANYTHING LESS AND I SAY FUCK YOU

I am fucking sick of trying to do the right thing and GETTING FUCKING NOTHING.

Sorry, got a little pissed there lol

The worst part is that we're rich enough as a country to have our obscene military spending and civilized healthcare and education, we just choose not to.

It can be both. Pissweak corpodems don't inspire enough people for a landslide, and landslides are much harder to rig.

It's a bug, yep! Will look into it.

That moment was Jan 6th. There was no heavy and hard change in Hitler's Germany from the Beer Hall Putsch all the way to Stalingrad and the gas chambers. It's all boiling the frog from here to there. Every change will seem like a light and transient one. By the time you feel you should go all in on the 2A, you will be mostly alone. That is by design.

In fact, we are already in the Gleichschaltung and the appeasement phase.

Yes, this is what NATO is for. It is an alliance meant to prevent fascism from taking hold. Just because it’s only ever been used in non member countries doesn’t mean it can’t be used on us, especially if Trump continues to threaten allies. Talking about this leading to WWIII is a strawman argument. You don’t know that will happen and it is not a good reason to not be asking for help from our allies. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO

The way i see it, America has gone very angry at anyone in the past who was accused of "interfering with American internal politics" for many years. That is why nobody wants to meddle in American internal politics anymore.

It is, in some sense, the fate of the tiger. When you're a gazelle or zebra, and you're sick, you can hope at least that a Tiger will come by and eat you, thus shortening your suffering. When you are the tiger, there's nobody predating you, and if you fall sick, it could take a very long time before you die.

From a VA employee:

This is destroying the Agency. People come to work terrified every day. I don’t know a single competent and qualified person who isn’t actively looking for work elsewhere and the only people who will be left to serve our Veterans are those with no other choices. The amount of sheer experience, knowledge, and brainpower being lost is irreplaceable, and the trust is already broken. We’ll never get it back. I am heartbroken that so many Republicans deeply, deeply hate us for doing our best every single day to serve Veterans. I will never forgive them for this.

https://open.substack.com/pub/progressreport/p/revenge-of-the-whiny-pampered-baby?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2lkdbh

I don't know what you think despotism looks like, but this sure as hell isn't democracy nor is it a republic. This has nothing to do with losing an election, this has to do with some people's fantasy that Trump will ever give up power. I guess we need to wait until evidence surfaces, and then only iron clad evidence that the worst is happening will possibly motivate them, maybe.

I disagree with your overall assessment that we are experiencing "light" or "transient" causes for general revolt.

Anytime I talk about these things to folks outside the US, it’s always some reply about “your country chose this!” And how, regardless of how I voted, I still somehow let this happen. It’s super frustrating and disheartening.

The way i see it, the current disasters unfolding were predictable as far back as the 1960s. Unhinged greed is a disease, and letting it run free and calling it "progress", "economic liberalism", and channeling it to make it your main way of doing economy, is a disease. What's angering me personally is that it seems to me that Americans are so extremely short-sighted, that as long as it worked for them, everything was ok in their eyes, and now that they're hitting the wall, they suddenly want to get off the vehicle. Good planning takes a long time, and even if we wanted to help you, we couldn't, because there's not enough preparation time.

Now, it is the cool thing to be super anti-American.

This isn't news. Different than what americans might think, they're not necessarily looked at as the "big heroes" everywhere. There's a lot of countries who have made a lot of bad experiences because of them, and really, the USA isn't popular, on average, world-wide.

light and transient causes

dude... they're making concentration camps. This isn't just a "candidate"

Oh they'll come.

The US will have to go to war to keep down unrest. Whether Trump makes good on Canada / Greenland / Poland, the world will have to form a coalition against us, and it's likely China will take the lead.

There will be Chinese bombers over Washington just as there were Russian and American bombers over Berlin. Not that we'll be around to enjoy it, and those that remain will suffer as collaborators (whether they were or not).

We really don't want to let it get there. But then we really didn't want it to get here, and we knew in the early aughts with George W. Bush's administration this is where we were headed if someone didn't chance course. Obama, who promised to change course, did not.

Yeah, this reply is a perfect example. It's a generalization of over 340 million individuals.

This is exactly why I've always maintained that the 2nd amendment against tyranny is complete and utter horseshit. There will never, ever, be a case in which civilians can take up arms against the US government and have any remote shot of doing anything. Any tyrannical government will get to where they are with such significant support they will be so ridiculously protected you'd have to take on the entire military and legal branches of the USA.

In 1814 when every has a flintlock pistol? Sure. Now? Have fun getting remote drone striked before you even step foot into Washington D.C.

This is apt for the situation

The Taliban won and they don't have advanced technology.