Pro@reddthat.com to politics @lemmy.world · 9 days agoWe’re walking into a trap: Why Trump is goading Americans to protestwww.thenewhumanitarian.orgexternal-linkmessage-square40linkfedilinkarrow-up161file-text
arrow-up161external-linkWe’re walking into a trap: Why Trump is goading Americans to protestwww.thenewhumanitarian.orgPro@reddthat.com to politics @lemmy.world · 9 days agomessage-square40linkfedilinkfile-text
The protest movement in the United States is growing, but so is the global authoritarian playbook it’s up against.
minus-squareTropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up104·9 days agoThe idea being promoted here is that Americans can sit on the sidelines. In-fact, if you look at recent history, the ONLY things that have stopped authoritarians is mass protest.
minus-squaremeeeeetch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up29·edit-28 days agoIf we protest he’ll send in the troops so that he can have his goons grab people off the streets. If we don’t protest, he’ll have his goons grab people off the streets. Seems like protesting puts an obstacle and the goons grabbing.
minus-squareTropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up25·9 days agoProtesting also prepares communities to escalate resistance when necessary
minus-squareBossDj@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up26·edit-29 days agoInvasion and occupation by another country has a decent track record, too
minus-squareDreamButt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·9 days agoLook if Canada wants to save us from ourselves no one will stop them
minus-squarePhoenixz@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up4·9 days agoThe US armed forces might want to have a word about this tho
minus-squareOutlierBlue@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 days agoIt’s more likely to go the other way. The US is 1930s Germany and Canada is Poland.
minus-squareBubbaonthebeach@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 days agoWe might be making notes on how to be Vietnam or Afghanistan instead. Americans are our friends, unless they decide not to be.
minus-squarethe Howling North@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 days agoWe’re too bitter about Florida winning the Stanley Cup twice.
minus-squareCubitOom@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·9 days agoThere are more options too. 198 methods of nonviolent action The updated list - Civil-Resistance-2.0 I also recommend this book. From Dictatorship to Democracy
minus-squareJeeBaiChow@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 days agoYup. Same as all those fearmongering ‘YOU WANT A WAR WITH X?!?’ each time a post critical of X is raised.
The idea being promoted here is that Americans can sit on the sidelines.
In-fact, if you look at recent history, the ONLY things that have stopped authoritarians is mass protest.
If we protest he’ll send in the troops so that he can have his goons grab people off the streets.
If we don’t protest, he’ll have his goons grab people off the streets.
Seems like protesting puts an obstacle and the goons grabbing.
Protesting also prepares communities to escalate resistance when necessary
Invasion and occupation by another country has a decent track record, too
Look if Canada wants to save us from ourselves no one will stop them
The US armed forces might want to have a word about this tho
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It’s more likely to go the other way. The US is 1930s Germany and Canada is Poland.
We might be making notes on how to be Vietnam or Afghanistan instead. Americans are our friends, unless they decide not to be.
We’re too bitter about Florida winning the Stanley Cup twice.
There are more options too.
198 methods of nonviolent action
The updated list - Civil-Resistance-2.0
I also recommend this book.
Yup. Same as all those fearmongering ‘YOU WANT A WAR WITH X?!?’ each time a post critical of X is raised.