News: How to Topple an Authoritarian Regime

Eat a dick Pam. How many protests have you attended in the U.S.? I guarantee I've been to many more than you, and why don't you call? Too cheap? Or is sending spam email just how you roll?

 

You dodged his question.

 

Just what an English authoritarian would do.

 

You are a very simple thinker.

 

Not sure why you think we don't know that? I'm in a ski resort town with oodles of fresh snow and consequent foreign visitors.

But we're up against the greatest difficulty imaginable-- our populace voted for this crap. With malice aforethought and substantial forewarning they endorsed this, to the point of empowering this in all three branches. Until a substantial portion of the complaisant and compliant decide this is not what they meant, being in the streets won't achieve anything much at all.

MAGA don't care.

 

I gather your degree was basically mathematical? Because you don't seem to read very well? I said nothing about the hardcore.

 

Aren't there nuances? I mean, those who have analyzed authoritarian regimes with repressive systems have shown that people's attitudes aren't binary. For example, the concept of 'non-consent' to a repressive situation was created to describe these gray areas. It refers to the largely invisible mass of people who are neither complicit nor passive.

 

Actually it was the misinformed (complacent) and the careless or axe-to-grind (compliant) as I saw them .And that mignt be just about your 4%...

It is when those people decide they actually are concerned about whether the apple cart remains upright that street action might pry enough others loose to get somewhere. But hard core MAGAs believe that rain falls up and that the earth is round and flat simultaneously.

 

You need to be committed

 

It seems to me that he found the thing that he was going to do anyway...leave...and somehow rationalized it into the best, main, and only course of action. Nevermind that he's still paying federal taxes and keeping his citizenship. Then he bitches that everybody else isn't doing enough.

Kind of a dick move if you think about it.

 

Taking to the streets massively and repeatedly is always a good thing and may have an impact, but it's not enough. The crux of the matter is money. Money is the only language the elites speak, the only thing they understand, money is untouchable. The elites don't give a damn about people protesting outside of working hours. Paralyzing the country and making the elites lose money is often the only way to get things moving.
But that reminds me of this comment I read from an American:

"kinda realized after getting hundreds of liberals and leftists alike howling at me for saying a general strike would accomplish more in a few days than decades of peaceful marches, that we are nowhere near ready for a proper movement"

And indeed, the famous American dream, this concept of capitalist leaders, has worked very well for so long : why have national unions that defend the rights of workers and citizens when *anyone* i.e everybody (you, you, and you, also you and you ...(lol)) can become a billionaire !
Now is maybe too late.

 

Source/link? This article from Politico says 5 million in June 2025 and 7 million in October 2025.

 

Back of the passport math...340M 'Mericans...4% need to march per AM rules...that's 13.6M. C'mon! Only 2% of youse bums are marching.

 

Maybe most people is just waiting for slightly better weather? I imagine that it is difficult to stage a protest with a snowstorm every week, not to mention that it is more difficult to get millions out win coordinated protests when the country spans half a continent…

The next no-kings rally scheduled for March 28th if you’re interested…

 

The Iraq War was world-wide so you'd expect millions more. And it didn't stop the war. Fascists rarely care about public opinion.

 

Nobody’s mad at you. You’re just an insufferable, conceited, pretentious, narcissistic asshole and people respond accordingly.