• humblearrogant@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Most people can’t afford a general strike either. We ourselves are having our liberties surpressed. The only ones able to lash out against the oligarchy are those who have already lost everything to the machine, and even then some of them end up too broken to be able to do something meaningful. Luigi is a rare case where action actually resulted in change and it spoke to the majority of the country who is tired of being abused like indentured servants.

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      3 months ago

      In this case, I am convinced that the U.S. will become a full-blown autocracy like today’s Russia sooner rather than later.

      The regime has already laid the groundwork for this, and if it decides to do away with even the pretense of democracy - which I consider more likely with each passing day - resistance will effectively mean that those who have the courage to resist will vanish without a trace.

      That’s how it was in my home country back when the Nazis took over Germany. Here, too, people were convinced that things would somehow work out on their own- what actually happened is written in the history books.