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'I wish' but I'm certainly not going to hold my breath.
I'm not confident there will be significant resistance from within the US anymore. I feel like it's more likely the US collapses into fascist authoritarianism, festers and grows until it spills over and the rest of the world manages/is forced to unite and clean up this mess. (ie actual full blown WW3, at the scale of previous world wars.)
I would love to be proven wrong though.
I'm so scared that you're right. I have been sitting here watching the "don't let games die" movement just explode with support in what feels like a week and feeling bittersweet about it. I'm really happy that the movement is getting so much attention, but in contrast https://generalstrikeus.com/ has slowly crept up 100,000 new signatures in the months since I became aware of it.
It's depressing that something so important can't even approach the movement that keeping old video games around already has.
For starters, stop killing games is European.
It also doesn't involve likelihood being fired from your job and potentially being made homeless, while also being harrassed and assaulted by police (and going into medical debt to recover from it).