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At least people will understand why we are revolting. Convincing the world of your cause is usually the hard part.

Trump lost the popular vote last time but still got enough state victories to win with Electoral College votes, and he is less popular now than then, but his base is very vocal and with so many adults disassociating themselves with the Republican Party it makes it a very bottom of the barrel pool for candidates.

The problem is there is only one other national party with any chance of winning, and their candidate just gave more weapons to the nation currently bombing children's hospitals and refugee camps.

So while the average US Citizen might be better than this, our ancestors built a system and our elders corrupted it to the point where a large enough coalition of below average people can destroy the nation. Yes, we're really that stupid.

My sister in law: Ahem, fake news. Checkmate librul.

Your average American voter is apparently a goldfish.

Its even retarder than that

About 40% is yes...which is enough to cause serious issues.

There's a good documentary on this - Idiocracy.

Yes. Kill me, please.

Fascist power fantasy. No need to sugarcoat it.

a conservative power fantasy

Yeah, but if people think this is harmless and don't go vote, this might become true anyway

I think I'm missing some context.

That's what I hate so much about our "liberal media" system. They keep both sidering stuff like Biden's age vs. donnie's overt appeal to fascism.

Dailybeast does a "doomscroll" load next article thing. That paragraph is from that. Its on the same page, so the bot likely just fucked up. Here's the article name if y'all want context:

Inside the Mean-Girl Army Going to War for a Celebrity Dietician

That might be the point. Deploy the military in a low stakes situation to see who listens. Kick all the defactors out of the military. Then, when you actually need them, you are left with a military full of loyalists.

Because, as we've seen, Trump would totes follow the Rule of Law...then again, who needs silly things like Laws when you become the self-declared Lord Emperor after "fixing" America.

"abuses... during the Civil War and the Reconstruction", as if there wasn't a bunch of states that not only rebelled, but refused to enforce Federal law after the civil war.

Cute that you think Trump believes he's beholden to the law.

It's obvious that 2016 is the branching point of where we deviated from the prime timeline. There it's just too much foreshadowing about Hillary being the first female president, and everything seem to go wrong when we killed that gorilla. He Quantum immortalited it so he only died in this shitty timeline

And yet not a single person with the power to do anything right now - is doing anything right now.

Motherfucker is still outright disrespecting our entire system of justice - or whatever is left of it for the rich.

Correct. That's the plan

Not to start a conspiracy but I was wondering if the single GOP member holding up all military promotions was all him taking the fall/ getting ready for only promoting those who will follow suit. Hopefully it can't work like that, but it would make sense

The first part maybe, but the second - no.

There might be pockets of small arms fire and a few civ x mil casualties, but anything beyond that is pure fantasy. It would quickly become a question of "are you willing to go on a kamikaze guaranteed suicide mission to be heard and die at the hands of the US military, now, today, in protest?"

"They can't stop us all!"

True, but you don't have "us" all. You think my 99 year old grandmother is going to fight the US military? What about my friends 5 year old? What about my father in law who cares for another elderly relative and is their only hope of survival? What about my wife who needs regular medication?

There are so many of us who, despite our extreme ideological opposition to fascism simply wouldn't be effective infantry. Hell even most people who regularly hunt deer and shoot guns daily at the range will fall to military tactics, because hunting a garrison of soldiers in vehicles, with air support and explosives, who shoot back, and have been trained in how to reinforce their positions etc is very different to shooting a static paper target that's not behind cover in a straight line ahead of you at eye level.

I reckon, if I got the jump on an unsuspecting soldier who wasn't expecting it, and I was armed, I'd have a 55% chance of murdering him. Add just one other person watching his back and I'd be dead before I could do more than bruise him.

The 2A Fantasy of fighting back against a tyrannical government requires a well-organized militia. Which means putting Sunday school teachers, middle managers, dentists and retail workers through months of boot camp training. During those months, who's fighting?

Just look at Israel / Palestine. We'd be Palestine. Yes, a few guerilla tactics would kill dozens of soldiers, who'd then retaliate and kill thousands of civilians, while the rest of the world goes, "Oh no."