That's why people are going to jailbreak their cars. That's why people are going to modify everything they own. That's why brands will go bankrupt.

Really wish people realized this 20 years ago when we actually had a chance to stop it.

Everyone sounding the alarms over the past two decades ago were ridiculed. Arguments seen as over reacting or a "my brand vs your brand" thing (really about the infrastructure and consumer rights).

Lets make some Lazer Megaphones to help those who forgot how to listen by unreal not-paper talisman. Oh, but Heath Ledger's Joker was the "bad" guy for being funny on the big show demo of that whole shebang.

I mean Sirius, Lee Camp nails it down to excessive detail and even they ask for the same sucker talisman tricks. Good Pornographic Luck.

Fascism is the inevitable result of all government. Government is an accumulation of power, and it continues to accumulate power throughout its existence. Over the generations, it acquires more and more power exponentially.

Protesting is legal.

You are describing a chilling effect. Those weapons are not used at all protests and that is the point. They want you think twice before going to protest. Still though, in general, it's not criminal to attend or organize a protest.

It's good that you and everyone here knows that these things are happening. If the twitter post was just speaking to the choir, then what's the point? Circle jerk to make us feel better? Retweets and upvotes aren't going to save us.

If the post is trying to reach people and wake them up, then they are speaking to people who are not aware of the story you cited. To them it just seems like OP is lying and the post does nothing to help anything.

Either way, neither argument is the same as "no protests".

Sure, but my point is that if that's what you mean then that's what you should say. It's important to keep a message simple, but not at the expense of honesty. Otherwise a lot of people tune out.

this nerdy declaration of facts serves what purpose?

They are using people, who don't understand that words have meanings and the nuances in institutions and laws, to take advantage of the laws that have existed for decades for their own authoritarian gain.

Your entire comment is playing right into their handbook.

right-wingers don’t care about facts

Again, this is very simplistic. The real changes in government aren't the white house reconstruction, the kennedy center naming, or pulling down signs at National Parks (all real and important issues yes) but the things that actually reshape our entire country are happening on paper. It's in policy changes and directives. Court rulings.

The right wingers making this stuff happen do care about legal facts and they know the laws/procedure well enough to exploit them on a daily basis without most of the mainstream population even noticing.

never accomplishes anything

Solutions and plans cannot be developed if we do not have an understanding of what is going on. What makes competitive authoritarian regimes so successful is that they can keep 40-60% of the population convinced their is a democracy by allowing opposition speech and holding elections. You only need about 40% of the population to go along to keep the machine going.

If you find knowing the difference between authoritarian regimes and how they are implemented as pointless or "nerdy", that's fine if you just want to 50501 protest for the next few years (those have an important place in the movement), but others are in the field developing legal plans and reforming institutional structures from local to federal.

My first plan is going to be trying to ask them for an itemized list of services I think. I think with medical debt you can also work out repayment on a much smaller scale because they know they other option is you being like “fuck it.”

So, about poland if someone want to know:

• democracy and poland xD in the best case, it's anocracy. Sorry but poland is closer and closer to russia and belarus, especially since russian invasion
• free speech? It's complicated. I mean, you can do and say more if you're right wing (or just fascist). If you're in opposition (leftist, anarchist or just non-right winger) or if you're immigrant (especially Ukrainian now) then...you better watch out. Let's say we can use quote of goddamm idi amin "There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech"
• corruption? Well, they say it's solved but it's hidden and poland pretends "no, we're fine. Anywho, look at ukraine, it's so bad there about corruption"
• healthcare? In theory we have it but it's underfunded and corrupted (we just have another corruption scandal...again) and if you want to get much faster, you have to pay and use private healthcare. If you live outside city, good luck then

Well, it's not as bad as usa but...it's not good either

Anyway, fight dystopia, folks

I'm actually curious, what compelled you to look a whole month back into my post history?

direct result of unfettered capitalism. The more the wealth gets concentrated into the hands of fewer and fewer people

I'd say it's lack of political will to fix issues. Poland wanted to access common EU market and all the benefits, so we introduced high quality law and law enforcement along with strong anti curruption framework. Additionally if state fucks you, you can do a complain to the EU Tribunal of Justice. The end result is that we effectively have more capitalism than the corpocracy of US. And it works, capitalism is really good if it runs along with high quality legal framework. It's not a perfect system, but I by all means prefer it over US

Capitalism is hell when done properly. Socialism is good when done properly.

And the inverse can also be correct then, which is my entire point, although I word it more that any system can work correctly if the right people make the right decisions.