• RedditWanderer@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I was being facetious. You’re supposed to “protest”, not get a permit. These people in these other countries also aren’t allowed to protest, often with much harsher penalties for doing so.

    Permits! Go stand for your country whatever they say. The only reason you need a permit now is you didn’t do that last time. The longer America waits the worse it will get. Once Trump gets voted in you won’t even have the right to vote.

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      See that’s the thing, we crow about how “free” we are, but our police are militarized. You don’t get a permit for an ineffectual fake protest that won’t disrupt commerce, and suddenly we are no different than Iran or Hong Kong, and our police WILL kill us for “lawless” actual disruptive protest.

      When you cut through the intentional bullshit layers they point to to convince us we’re “free” our capitalist owners are just as willing to kill us to maintain power as Xi or any other totalitarian regime, our totalitarian regime is just a consortium of private shareholders who realized it’s easier to convince their slaves they volunteered through propaganda.

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        5 months ago

        That’s what these other countries face to. Death. Hell they don’t bother militarizing the police, they just send the military.

        All im saying is it only gets tougher the longer americans wait

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          Agreed. In 5-10 years, the owners who already own fhe means of production/propaganda/state violence will ALSO have armies of multipurpose humanoid robots they’ve used to replace the workforce they exploited and left in poverty defending them from us.

          If not now, when? It’s maddening.