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Simultaneous purging of the chief generals of all three branches.
They are ensuring the military has no cohesiveness to stage a future coup against the Executive Branch, and are replacing all control with their own loyalists.

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[–] freebee@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 day ago (10 children)

This shit is moving so fast. And any pushback initiative to the insanity moves so slow. I hope there will be real elections again in a few years, but it feels like game-over tbh

[–] CMahaff@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Yeah, people abroad are wondering why Americans won't just stand up, but the reality is that the country is massive and you need an incredible organizing effort to offer any real, organized resistance.

And sure, some groups have tried, but you really need your opposition party, or some kind of major celebrity, or someone else with major reach to organize something that reaches every American and pulls them together to action.

And that just hasn't happened. Some people have spoken out, but nobody has been willing to lead that next step and really lead a movement. Words aren't gonna be enough to counter this.

[–] Krik@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 day ago (5 children)

but the reality is that the country is massive and you need an incredible organizing effort to offer any real, organized resistance.

That's no problem.
The protests that brought down East Germany weren't that much organized at first. People went to the street every monday and that was it. Internet and instant messenger didn't exist back then. Most didn't even had a telephone at home and TV was censored by the state.
Children were pretty successful too. The whole worldwide protest grew from a single child.

The USA is big, yes, but the population live in the cities not in between them.

Now you know what to do:
Pick a day and go protest every week on that day in your city. Politics eventually will feel the pressure.

[–] Zron@lemmy.world -3 points 18 hours ago

ITT: Europeans thinking they know what a big country is.

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