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We should quit paying our taxes
The government can just print money, they don't actually strictly need your taxes (see MMT). The only actual path is withholding labour and mass protests (with at least a credible threat of violent escalations).
Printing money is how you get hyperinflation. You cant just print money without it flooding the market. If you do that too often, the money becomes worthless.
Fuck it! Either the dollar fails because no one wants to come to the US.. or you just keep printing money. Either way you’re fucked.
Yeah, I don't see a lot of ways this ends well. Maybe a prolonged national strike. But even that isn't likely to happen.
I haven’t contributed to the economy in any meaningful way and have managed to make money without working any real job since the last place I worked at shuttered in 2020, withholding my labor. I’ve been doing my part. And I’m only one person so there’s not much else I can do unless more people are also doing it.
Or leave. Stop supporting the country in the most literal sense.
Leaving would make it worse. Every single person who wants to leave as a result of this is the opposition. Without us, they have free reign.
If the majority of the intelligencia class leaves the US will be critically harmed in one of its most lucrative areas. The US has done an excellent job of attaching to talent over the past century, if that talent simply up and leaves it places the US at a disadvantage economically, socially and intellectually (importantly including science and engineering fields).
This is incredibly bad logic that you have constructed so that you can have the reality you want.
Your simple solutions are like that of Elon Musk suggesting a submarine for a cave rescue just because you think it would be a cool way to do it. It has no backing of reality behind it.
You're totally right, no other dictator has ever taken an oppressive position to their intelligentsia and those that remained in fascist nations have been super effective at degrading it from within... Just look at the USSR, Italy, Spain or Chile under their fascist leaders. They all were super supportive of their institutions of higher learning and those that remained stopped all kinds of atrocious government actions. They were all better off for staying put. /s
I think you may be underestimating just how many engineering folks have zero morals and find it 'fun' to build bombs and missiles and sensors. They don't require ethics courses for a reason
Even if everyone left, he's still got a bunch of nukes and other powers that could affect the rest of us.
It's status quo at this point. It's either leave or gear up for civil war.