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I've seen some hope. The protests we've got going on in Minnesota have had huge turnout, without any major mistakes on the side of protestors (read: violence)
I'm seeing more and more apolitical, for lack of a better word, people speaking out against what is happening now. Technology Connections included a very frank political discussion in his most recent video, as an example
People in my personal life, who were previously dismissive of my concerns around Trump, have changed their tune
The situation is not great, but there are rays of hope
Can confirm. I live in a bellwether city, whoever we voted for has been the president for the last... 8 times? 10 times? idk, quite a few times.
The city previously had quite a number of Trump flags on houses. During his first term, the "Trump trains" would routinely roll through town, and you would hear them honking for a good 3 - 5 minutes as they all drove by. They came in from other cities mostly, but still, there would be like 50ish "I need to compensate for something" type trucks with Trump flags on the back.
Now, even the flags are rare. My neighbor who literally flew a Confederate flag for a while - in California, mind you, my joke being "Southern California will rise again" - took his Trump flag down after the first round of Epstein stuff and it hasn't gone back up yet. The "Trump trains" are gone. They tried them a few times during the start of his second term, maybe a few months in, but having a "train" of only like 5 people just feels more pathetic than impressive, so they quit that. Haven't seen one in months.
Also, the Trump administration simply appears to be way less competent than the (original) Nazis were. The second season is scarier than the first, but that's a large part of what saved us during the first season too.
However! Let's not forget that the Democrats waged an internationally-recognized genocide against the Palestinian people because they're also owned by Zionazis and corporate interests. The people don't "win" unless both corporate-owned, pedophile-and-or-genocidaire-run parties are completely removed from power. NOT reformed, removed.
Man, this just gave me an idea. Print off a bunch of copies of the new pages about the allegations against Trump, then start mailing them out to houses with Trump flags up. No additions or alterations, other than to include "published by the United States Department of Justice, January 30th, 2026" along with a direct link to the pages on the DOJ site (or maybe an archive.org link to it, since they already took it down once)
Edit to respond to your whole comment:
I agree it seems less competent -- Hitler actually wanted to improve the living standards for Aryan Germans; whereas Trump wants to enrich himself and his billionaire sycophants -- we also have no realistic chance for external factors to bring down the regime as happened with the Nazis. There is zero chance the US would ever be invaded. No country will want to go to war with the US. They'll simply stop doing business with us, like Russia or North Korea
That's a pretty good idea lol. I've been thinking of just printing out particularly egregious pages and slapping them up on stickers.
You're right, there are "rays of hope" I suppose, but I'm in the twin cities metro and we in my circle of friends and family aren't feeling particularly hopeful. It's hard not to feel crushed by the brutality that has been going on. We've been volunteering to get groceries for people and to pick up kids from school whose parents are afraid to do so, but we have our family situation doesn't really allow us to be away from the house much. Many of my daughter's friends are full remote for school now even though they are citizens because of their ethnicity. It's just rough and it has been hard to not feel like we're barreling towards a full nazi experience.