A Coup Is In Progress In America

[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.

[fourpacketsofpeanuts@lemmy.world]

My history might be dusty but I don't think Hitler ever said he intended to become a dictator before people voted for him. His deception is what you might refer to as the coup.

Trump on the other hand..

[infeeeee@lemm.ee]

But there is no word about this in the article. The only relation of this article to technology is that the site is called "Techdirt".

We have other communities for this, please don't make everything about US politics.

[whiterice@lemmy.ml]

No, then it’s just sparkling treason.

[humanius@lemmy.world]

And Americans are seemingly too cowardly to do anything about it.
For the love of God defend your democracy. Protest!

[humanius@lemmy.world]

Hitler was very vocal of his disdain for democracy, and he ran on that platform afaik.
The democratic Weimar Republic was what ruined Germany in his view.

[thwompthwomp@lemmy.world]

Im no expert either, but he did try the beer ball putsch which landed him a trial and jail time, before his actual rise to power. So his plans for a coup were definitely there.