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You know, DOGE, fascist president and corporations dictating what people can do, institutions being ruined, laws being ignored. Is there any way out of that or is it over? Is the USA done?

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[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

"screwed" seems a little mild to describe it

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 11 points 7 months ago

Not necessarily.

There are still legal routes, the chances of congress not laying down on the job, etc.

Then, you've got the first line of citizen action, protests and non violent direct action combined with people helping each other until the legal stuff has a chance to work.

Beyond that, right now, across the country, small groups are trying to organize. Most of them as a form of more assertive resistance and/or a safety net for trans people, immigrants, and other targets of the current administration.

There are also smaller groups than that organizing for the possibility of having to fight.

That does include people just as batshit as the more rabid right wing, but most of them are less eager than the crazies to get involved in an asymmetric civil war. So they aren't very visible.

But there are people working at all levels to resist and turn things around.

The way out is for everyone that can to be ready. To take risks to protect each other, and to do what they can when they can.

[-] bizarroland@fedia.io 11 points 7 months ago

Nah, but it's going to be a long way back to 2015.

We've been set back to the 40s. Maybe by the next 40s

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago
[-] PanArab@lemm.ee 9 points 7 months ago

laws being ignored

first time?

[-] Aoife 9 points 7 months ago

Nah it's gonna get looted and pillaged and generally go to shit but will be saved by the aheer economic power of being one of the few places left on earth with enough farmland to feed billions when the other breadbaskets start getting decimated by ecological collapse

[-] uienia@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It is interesting that you assume that breadbasket will not also be decimated by climate change like the rest of the world. Is that some of that American exceptionalism I keep hearing about?

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[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 9 points 7 months ago

It depends on the will and strength of mind of the populace. The politicians are laughing all the way to their Swiss bank accounts.

[-] HighFructoseLowStand@lemm.ee 8 points 7 months ago

Unless there's a coup when the Supreme Court finds against Trump and he ignores them and Republicans keep Congress from holding him accountable the only way the Court will let them.

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

As you failed to prevent fascism at the voting booth, you will have to learn how to stop it now. This is the situation the second amendment had been written for. After being abused to allow criminals and mentally retarded to get access to weapons they should never have, you can now put them to good use.

[-] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It depends on if Barron Trump is like his father or not.

Because that is who Trump has chosen to lead once Trump dies.

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[-] SabinStargem@lemmings.world 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I would say so. The only question is whether the good guys win a civil war. My money is on 'yes', since Yarvin's Cabal is hellbent on exiling all of the competent people from their society, along with being jackasses who have alienated many peoples. It will be a bloody struggle, but I think that Dogey America will ultimately receive the Old Yeller treatment. I only hope that every member of Yarvin's Cabal are executed - Elon, Thiel, ect.

Let's not make the mistakes of the 1st Civil War, 1st Business Plot, and 2nd World War, where many high ranking members were permitted to escape justice.

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[-] ecvanalog@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

It’s fucking toast

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