Words look so cool when strung together to make a rallying statement of intent to act, don’t they.

But you all seem to always fall short of action.

There was supposed to be an uprising in November, December, January, February, March, shall I go on?

You all are so quick to climb over one another to be the first to pat yourselves on the back for typing up the coolest words to inspire OTHERS to act. You all salivate at the idea of bringing all types of violence to Nazis, the upper classes, the CEOs… yet, nothing. Words.

Here I’m only speaking the truth. I’ll make no apologies that you don’t like it or that it’s unpopular. Im too old and too tired of pretending to believe that any of you have the strength of conviction to leave your houses let alone begin a grassroots movement to make change. So forgive me for not buying into this make believe army of yours.

For fuck’s sake. Tend of thousands of you couldn’t be bothered to tick a fucking box to save democracy.

Now you’re wanting everyone to believe you’re willing to lay down your life for it? Pretend all you want bud. But don’t get mad when people call you out.

Fucking LOL.

Yes. I absolutely do. There’s a reason Trump fired military commanders.

To be fair some did try but there was surprisingly little resistance

I mean, you can see this to some degree in cities like LA or Chicago or even Houston. Collective resistance efforts happen. You can - and people occasionally do - throw rocks or fire guns or even just fling their sandwiches at the occupying paramilitary.

But much like with the occupation of Iraq or Afghanistan or the capture of Syria or the bombings in Yemen or the invasion of Ukraine or the militarization of far-right governments in Guatamala and El Salvador and Honduras and Argentina, the state can bring a lot more violence against a nascent resistance movement than the movement can repel.

Without an active armed ally - like the French during the American Revolution or the Soviets in Vietnam - a government with the benefit of mass surveillance and air power and armored infantry is very difficult to dislodge.

Just look at Cuba, a country that's been suffering the armed occupation of Guantanamo Bay for 60 years. Or Gaza, for that matter.

Weapons are for the weak.

Ahh. So you’re a troll that’s entirely irrelevant to the discussion. I wish you had said this earlier. I wouldn’t have wasted my time.

commanders don't really matter if the soldiers revolt

Yeah. So. I’m not sure what your damage is, but it’s not my business. There’s clear something going on there and it’s not my problem.

You’re derailing the conversation to illustrate that you get some sadistic joy from the suffering of others and I don’t believe giving you the platform to continue is healthy for anyone involved, so I’m blocking you.

Be sure to come at me with your sock puppets so I can block them too.

I think it’s just better for everyone.

your life is a waste of time

For all of our sakes, I’m sure we won’t have to worry about it because it’s not going to happen anyway.

lol… it’s not the 1940’s. You know this right? It’s important that you know this.

Best of luck.

some sadistic joy from the suffering of other

LOL
The majority of the world wants you violent imperialist mass murdererd gone.
It's a joyful event.
No crocodile tears for any of you or your kind.

Of course, nobody could even imagine the absolute horror of the Holocaust.

The Armenians could. As could the Nambians. As could the residents of Nanjing, China and Gando, Korea.

But these mass murders were so chronically under-reported - even deliberately suppressed - in media controlled by the political opposition and its allies, that it was possible to never know they'd happened much less consider they could happen locally.

I would also note how the Israel assassination of journalists across Gaza and the West Bank has gone a long way towards suppressing the size and scale of their genocide, particularly at the upper reaches of western media. You absolutely can talk to people in DC or London or Berlin who will (either deliberately or out of their own cloistered media consumption habits) not recognize the scale of atrocity.

But even if you could have convinced someone staring into a cattle car in Poland or Austria that this was the beginning of the end, what would you expect this person to do? Surrounded by armed men who were, in turn, surrounded by tanks and supported by bombers, how were they expected to respond?

The countries had already been defeated. Their people had already been broken on the wheel of war. They were civilians without the training, much less the materials, to mount any kind of guerrilla campaign. They had no Che Guevara or Ho Chi Mein or even a Huey P. Newton to rally them. There certainly wasn't a Mao on hand to lead them in a Long March for their survival and eventual return.

They'd put their trust in the established state lords. Those lords had failed. And now there was nothing standing between them and the gas chambers. Feels trite to say they all should have rushed the guards in a mob, when the Charge of the Light Brigade was the last famous incident of such epic folly.

The soldiers are people who looked at this and said "sign me up".

Has the sheep made any plans for this resistance? Have they made any preparations for it? Formed any organizations? No? They just expected all the other sheep to suddenly form themselves into an army, do all the work themselves, and then praise the guy who said "we should mount a resistance" as a great visionary hero?

The second sheep is right. That isn't the time to say "we should mount a resistance". It's the time to actually resist using whatever means you have available. Of course, that would take actual effort and sacrifice, so they'll just march to the slaughter wondering why the revolution never came.

If you did have a time machine, how would you get everyone to vote?

We had all that under Biden too, and Kamala promised to do what Trump had been doing, but more competently.

Oh there’d be no way I alone would be able to move that mountain. The concept I spoke of involved everyone from right now, going back to 2024 knowing then what we know now…. for a do-over.

But the more I read through the comments, the more I have to accept that many of the people here would chose not change a fucking thing.

There’s tons of people here who were here during the election that were crying and shouting for everyone to not vote blue.

Every single one of them that haven’t run away or rolled an alt so as to return to play the victim of their own decisions- are still going on about that shit. Not a single one admitting they made a mistake and that they wished they could have helped stop this. Not ONE. Yet you don’t see anyone wishing they hadn’t voted against Trump. Even if they (like me) had to plug their nose to do it.

So at this point, I think the collective ignorance has reached such a profound level, that it would be impervious to any form of modification via time travel. It’s so much a part of our fucking culture now, that there’s no chance we wouldn’t just take that shit back there with us. Hell, I’d go so far as to say that our ignorance so fucking prevalent within us that I honestly believe that at this point- it’s embedded into our evolutionary process- essentially….

stupidity is in our DNA.

I don’t debate of even bother with people that make shit up in order to be a part of, or stay in the discussion.

Either play within the margins of reality, or go home.

For all of your sakes, I hope you're right, but what is happening right now is literally every single right is being stripped away. Even the right to vote is in a thin line. Is it worth fighting if you're no longer allowed to vote? If not, the american people are as spineless as I always thought they were.