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Steve Bannon finished his speech with another Nazi salute, and these people lap it up. It's time for the remnants of the USA to start actually fighting these fascists. Trump just put loyalists in charge of the military, so resistance needs to start now if it's going to start at all.
I'm Canadian and it would be really nice if Americans would start to fight back before Trump's military invades us.
Realistically, Trump is gearing up for a ‘Reichstag Fire’ moment in which he will blame antifa leftists and justify implementing martial law and a police state to suppress any attempts at protest or resistance. Because even a George Floyd sized protest can be squashed.
A few things need to happen simultaneously.
There has to be a schism within the military if we have a chance, but Trump is making sure the only people left are true believers who will fall in line.
Local grassroots resistance movements that practice mutual aid and direct action.
Foreign military/militias aiding these grassroots movements via trade networks. This last one will be mighty difficult and will require people who have access to such channels to begin with (ports, borders, etc.)
Lol American liberals couldn't even be bothered enough to go to the polls. The fuck makes you think anyone is fighting back against the orher 50% of Americans who support taking over the wildlings from the north?
Ask how NSDAP members felt in 1933.
It isn't a golden age for them. They're gonna get fucked as hard as many, many others. It may interrupt them laughing about it happening to somebody else.
If a golden age starts, it's with destruction and not an election. The Dark Ages started with the fall of the Eastern Roman Empire. The Golden Age started with the fall of Western Roman Empire. Not Istanbul, but Constantinople. The fall of western Rome sent the highly educated people as refugees into the rest of the world where they started writing, reading, and making art. So... Are they excited for the coming destruction, or did I miss a great nation falling and highly educated refugees piling up...
The other way around: first the western empire fell (476 traditionally), much later the eastern empire (1453).
That thumbnail 🤦♀️ Not only are they joking about deportation, they're taking memento photos of themselves at the display. I wonder if they'll feel so giddy about it when it becomes real for them.
