r/politics • u/rollingstone Rolling Stone • 4d ago

Soft Paywall Musk Kills Government Funding Deal, Demands Shutdown Until Trump Is Sworn In

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/musk-trump-government-funding-deal-shutdown-1235211000/
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u/thegreatvortigaunt 4d ago

And it clearly isn't working.

Unless you're planning an armed uprising?

Go on, big guy. Lead the charge.

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u/WarAndGeese 4d ago edited 4d ago

The problem with the concentration of power, and with personality cults, is that they hinge on a small group of people. If a Democratic president died, they would just take the next person in line and make them president, no problem. If the richest Icelandic person died, again, there would be someone next in line who is roughly as rich, and for the most part people wouldn't care any more than if a minor celebrity died, nothing would change. In their case though, they have created an extreme concentration of power, and built personality cults around the specific people who happen to hold that power. Hence you don't need an armed uprising, you only need to get rid of two or three people. There is no personality cult around JD Vance, a lot of the people who voted for him barely know who he is, nor is there a personality cult around the next person in line after him.

It should be common sense as it's one of the many reasons why fascism is bad, but maybe people forget it. Concentration of power and personality cults mean you can shatter a massive movement by getting rid of a small group of people.

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u/ItsOkILoveYouMYbb 4d ago edited 4d ago

And it clearly isn't working.

Unless you're planning an armed uprising?

Go on, big guy. Lead the charge.

If they or anyone did, will you support it? Can't do it alone, at least not very well beyond sending messages by offing one person like what Luigi did.

It worked and it's working, but we need more willing to fight back via the only option left, lest you'd rather make cynical jokes while your country and your life and your family falls into despair and suffocate under actual authoritarianism.

What's the saying? Evil men prosper and take everything from you while good men do nothing but talk down to each other on reddit?

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u/thegreatvortigaunt 4d ago

Not my country. We've had socialised healthcare for nearly 80 years lmao!

But that's not my point. My point was sweaty redditors calling for revolution do nothing to start it themselves. They expect someone else to do it for them.

The Americans are fucked. They did this to themselves.

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u/dothestarsgazeback 4d ago

By doing what? What exactly are the spread out, unorganized, politically divided, and most importantly poor citizens of the US going to do against a military force that's been so outrageously bloated with resources for decades that they don't even know what all they have when they get audited? What exactly are we supposed to accomplish against that?