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      You wouldn’t. Everyone would keep being brainwashed into accepting reality. It’s happening now.

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    In my opinion, it depends on the kind of dictatorship and your status of power. I assume that you’re an average US american looking at the election rn - then there isn’t really anything we can do here. The system is simply too strong, and Donald Trump has too much institutional authority to be stopped.

    However, I ask you to keep in mind that dictatorship isn’t an authoritarian monolith and that we as common citizens have a possibility to influence and undermine authoritarian governments. Nazi Germany immediately comes to mind; many citizens disobeyed the government, may have leaked information or sabotaged important projects, even into the highest ranks (Stauffenberg and Schindler are prime examples). A dictatorship is only as effective as the bearers of power in a certain region. For example, police officers, but also common citizens (just keep in mind that a significant amount of Germans provided shelter for Jewish people).

    It seems from my perspective that the authoritarian train cannot be stopped. So I’d do my best now to prepare for what is to come. Educate yourself about the key political players in your concrete region, if you decide to stay. Understand who holds the essential components of power - the council, the police officers, school district. Who supplies the common goods? Especially local producers often are connected strongly to the people and can be a major influence in the region. With this knowledge, you will be able to in turn exercise influence yourself and be able to help yourself and people who will be victims of Project 2025. We have a certain strength here - we know what it coming. Many people don’t. Use this knowledge for the good. Even if you cannot stop a “global” transition to the authoritarian regime which is to come, you can mitigate its effects on the local community by participating and influencing the bearers of decisions.

    I hope it makes sense. If you disagree, feel free to reply - I’d love to get more input on this topic. If any further questions arise, don’t hesitate to ask :)

  • BougieBirdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    I read the question as “why would you stop a transition to a dictatorship,” and the answer to that is to stop a transition to a dictatorship. Like, duh.

    But for real, I don’t really have the answers. Things aren’t that dire yet where I live, but the best time to start on mutual aid is yesterday - and the second best time is today.

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    Well, first I’d fight off speech censorship. We effectively did that through one man, so in that sense we were very lucky.

    Look at England right now. They’re ahead of us a few years into censorship because they didn’t have the guy we do. People going to prison for social media posts. Wild

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      Tf are you even trying to say? Use some details. Who’s we? Who’s the one man? Who’s us? The guy I’m assuming is the one man from earlier??? Who’s going to prison?

  • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    If you mean the current US election, absolutely nothing. Americans need to suffer at least for a short while to truly understand what they have done. Once the American people are willing to accept reason then any method of resistance from civil disobedience to revolution becomes acceptable.

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      I’m not as optimistic about that as you are. The average person only knows what they’re told and as long as the right controls the narrative in their homes they’re going to think ‘liberals’ and ‘illegals’ and ‘trans’ are causing their pain, no matter how bad it gets.

      Maybe some pain is what they need to snap out of this, but they also need a trusted voice to tell them the truth about who is doing it to them. Right now that person doesn’t exist in a vast swath of American homes.

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      If history is repeated isn’t it more likely that it results in a one party nation that isn’t taken down unless a foreign country intervenes militarily?

      These type of movements seem to lean towards one that as reflective of what the people of the country want with the initial stages more downplaying people’s worst criticisms until power is successfully seized from all corners of that country’s government.

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      Americans need to suffer at least for a short while to truly understand what they have done.

      Americans need to suffer at least for a short while

      to truly understand that they are victims of a deeply, deeply flawed electoral system that can only result in fascism in its current state.

      FTFY

      polarization is a feature not a bug in FPTP elections.  UK will lose NHS for the same reason.

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    I would get into fierce arguments on the internet to insist that we must vote for the lesser of two evils every election so that we get that dictatorship a little later instead of right now.

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      If Trump had lost, second time in a row, it could have well been the end of him. Big enough loss and it could have been end of the whole movement. Republicans could have come back to the centre. If you didn’t vote Harris, Trump is your fault. The system is completely broken, but it’s still what you have. Campaign for a better system while voting for the least bad. Enjoy your Trump.

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        I voted for Harris, but obviously that didn’t work out, did it? If you honestly think republicans would go back to the center after trump is gone then you don’t understand republicans.

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          I think a lot of people say out this election. They can’t then complain they got Trump. I don’t understand Trump Republicans, but that’s not all Republicans.

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      I can’t tell if downvotes because people don’t did understand the s or in spite of it.

      reading comprehension aint people’s strength online tho