• I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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        10 hours ago

        Survival, discretion and having plans matters. Martyrs can only do so much to rally people to a cause. What’s the point of being yet another body in a Russian gulag if the govt manages to effectively erase you and everything you stood for? Loudly complaining and going to jail, with your family and friends being censored and monitored by the govt, will help how?

        • inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          As an American I’m using my freedom of speech until they forcibly try to take it away. And then I will die fighting. We are currently witnessing a fascist coup in real time over here and there’s no real opposition to it either, the democrats are completely neutered and self interested in jockeying for the best positions under the fascist regime.

          It’s sickening, and I’ve seen this coming for decades, shouting at the top of my lungs about where we were heading, only to be at best ignored or at worst mocked as hysterical. The Cassandra curse is real.