These might be the good old days. Go outside, feel the grass, say wassup to your neighbors,… whatever you do that means community, because sh*t might get bad for a while.

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    If the Dems win and they don’t put a boot on the neck of this fascist movement it will take over eventually.

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      But that would require them to reign in the very same companies that sponsor them. One can hope, but it seems unlikely.

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        It’s a cult of personality. Jack Smith and the Judiciary just needs to step on the gas as soon as the election is called for Harris, get him gone. It’ll be interesting to see where the GOP goes from there, but MAGA will be dead. Would anyone else be happy with your normal everyday NeoCons running the GOP again?

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        Companies don’t want fascism, they just want tax breaks. Civil war and dictatorships are bad for business.

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      Us on the left need to stop depending on a government whose military is overwhelmingly in support of Trump. We already know nearly all police are the same fascists (not to mention uvalde)

      Arm yourself and train your family. Be silently ready for anything, don’t make yourself a target

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        Here’s the problem with that, though. It’s not going to be like there will be roving goon squads going from door to door snatching away your wives and daughters or anything. Even the MAGA-heads are just barely clever enough not to form themselves into any kind of entity that you could physically fight.

        Instead, they’re going to chip away at everybody with asinine laws and legislation, selective enforcement and remote harassment, by filing mountains of frivolous lawsuits, etc. They’ll seize property. They’ll get you fired from your job. They’ll kick you off of your health insurance and freeze your bank accounts. Those responsible are never going to actually expose themselves in any capacity in which they can get got, because they’re cowards; they’re going to hide behind their desks and layers of security and fences and metal detectors and cops and the secret service. If it turns to outright violence vis-a-vis war in our own cities, it would be monumentally stupid for them to send troops marching down the street, and they won’t. They’ll just remotely bombard an entire city block and blame all the collateral damage on “leftists” or “wokeism” or whatever. And idiots will believe it, and then blame the victims.

        “That’s ridiculous,” you say. “The government would never bomb anyone on US soil.”

        You want to bet?

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        Top brass seem to swing the other way though. These are generations that tangled with Russia and china for decades now. They see much more behind the curtain than others do.

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        If the US military was overwhelmingly in support of Trump Jan 6 would have gone completely differently.

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      Dems are chasing Repubs, so either party winning won’t really change this fact.

      With Dems we’re delaying this outcome. With Repubs we’re accelerating it.