The actions were stated in the edit of my previous comment, but I will place them here as well. It’s simple, the current power play can be stopped if the American people put pressure on the government. Protests work too. So does getting involved in your local community and changing your purchasing habits to cut out the corporations as much as possible.

Recapture the means of existence for yourselves, and take down the corpo-kleptocracy in the process.

You have the right to alter and abolish your government as the people.

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Fight misinformation with action. Edit: Why am I getting downvoted? It’s simple, the current power play can be stopped if the American people put pressure on the government. Protests work too. So does getting involved in your local community and changing your purchasing habits to cut out the corporations as much as possible.

Recapture the means of existence for yourselves, and take down the corpo-kleptocracy in the process.

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The Ministry of Truth (DOGE) is operating as expected.

The solution is to remember the Declaration of Independence, and act accordingly.

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I’d feel bad for them, but they wanted to be cops.

Right there in black and white.

Interesting statement from the individual who refused to see police officers as human beings.

I don’t call the cops. I call my friends. The last thing I want when I’m “in distress“ is for a bunch of stupid, authoritarian, armed thugs showing up to make everything 1000 times worse, possibly by murdering everyone around them just because they felt like it that day.

This entire comment of yours is a hallucinatory coping mechanism, since you seem to think that your group of friends won’t revert to the same barbaric behaviour that you accuse all law enforcement officers of.

But you can still be involved! Get on the community oversight boards, or volunteer.

Yes, I was more thinking that rebellion can come as a direct result of an increasingly fascist state, a form of blowback against authoritarianism.

I find government a necessary evil, but left to its own devices, it will follow the Second Law of Thermodynamics, and create increasing chaos in society in attempting to maintain its own order.

What do you call societal rebellion against an unjust government?

Then if you find the cops bad, why not become one, despite your distaste for the profession? Someone needs to do the work, better a conscientious individual such as yourself.

Alternatively, create a better system of crime mitigation on a local level and lead by example. It would be better for society as a whole for people to stop being so complacent, and change things in their local community.

It is odd how prophetic the first Matrix movie was, despite being a part of the machinery itself. Btw, it’s worth reading “Simulacra and Simulation” as the first movie is a decent film representation of the premises in the book. Warning, it’s a heavy read philosophically. Free your mind.

Your statement implied that you don’t support the state having a sole monopoly on force, as law enforcement is representative of that. Hence you support the people having the right to use any and all force necessary, as demonstrated by your statement about calling your friends. The Second Amendment gives anyone the right to bear arms, therefore implying they have the right to use said force when necessary. Therefore, your implied support.

You are the one who is hallucinating. You’re playing your role very well.

Do you disagree that Trump (ORAGNE), the chimp (Musk), and Poopy pants baby (Putin) are purporsefully fomenting war?

So, in essence, you believe in the Second Amendment, as you think that the government shouldn’t have a monopoly on force.

Edit to eliminate a double negative grammar error.

The two have in common the fact that a part of their identity (regardless of choice), is being attacked for no other reason than that. Demonizing people is demonizing people.

Are you going to demonize or mock someone who has chosen to be a cleaner or a fast food worker? Are you going to demonize or mock someone who believes in God, and is living peacefully with their neighbours?