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A Trumpian Fascistic Coup is Underway—Stop It Before the Terror Starts

www.counterpunch.org A Trumpian Fascistic Coup is Underway—Stop It Before the Terror Starts

Rise up people and fast. Tyrant Trump and his Musk-driven gangsters are launching a fascistic coup d’état. Much of everything you like about federal/civil service for your health, safety, and economic well-being and protections is being targeted. To feed Trump’s insatiable vengeance over being pros...

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Nader is the first I've read who says what I've been thinking: when does the killing begin?
That will seem like an extreme statement to some, but a campaign of terror is absolutely coming.
- Technically the killing has already begun, but the deaths probably are incidental to Musk randomly turning off shit.
  That's still structural murder.
- Not extreme at all. Fucking Trumpies stormed the capitol over conspiracy theories - why aren't we doing the same for our rights and freedoms?
  Guillotine the motherfuckers.
  
  Because since we believe in reality, and we're not in a cult, it's a lot harder to get us organized for anything.
  It's why cults are so fucking dangerous in a democracy. How do you even fight people who refuse to compromise or accept reality?
  I mean, how many COVID deniers denied it up to their literal last breath? Plenty.
  We have skepticism and stepping back for self-reflection and considering other options. They have what their God Trump tells them, and that's it.
- I mean, it either starts because nobody in power is listening or because people have already been stripped of what they're afraid to lose.
- what kind of terror?

I don’t know what I can personally do to make effective change, but what I have done since the inauguration is to let my close friends know I’m there for them since I can’t be the only one who feels defeated.
In the past I’ve hung hundreds fliers in the street for other causes, and I might do that again. It’s old school, gets people attention, and gets me out into the street and maybe interact with people.
Any ideas for an eye-catching poster? I was thinking “OUR DEMOCRACY IS DYING, WHAT CAN WE DO?”
- develop community alliances
  establish encrypted communications
  buy guns and train
- I suggest more radical slogans, like "Eat the rich", "Free Luigi" or "Shoot your local fascist".
- Democracy isn't dying. It's actively being taken apart.

Musk’s poisoned Tusks have even reached Laos, Cambodia, and parts of Vietnam where mine-clearing efforts have been cut off.
Did... Did Ralph Nader just pull a fucking Rick & Morty reference? He was "Elon Tusk" on his appearance on the show.
We live in the most fucking bonkers ass timeline.
Who writes this reality, Bobcat Goldwaith?
- Reality jumped the shark in 2012. Everything that happened after that is just the ones running the simulation seeing how far they can stretch things before it all goes topsy-turvy.
- No, he didn't.
- Love bobcat! Meat Bob is a classic!

There’s only one way ever that has worked to end fascism, authoritarianism, or a tyrant’s power. Only one.

The time to stop it was a few months ago. Make exit plans.
- As if you can hide from a fascist America.
- I decided in 2021 that I would leave the country if he was reelected. Even took a phone interview in my chosen location. But I got into a relationship since 2021, moved in together in an amazing place, changed jobs to one that’s incredibly low demand. I announced to my partner that I’m staying only on Monday.
  You can go. I don’t think we need your energy in these threads.
- coward

Well written. This is so mad

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