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Its funny how dunking on both PRC and the current US administration is being a "brainwashed American" ๐คฃ
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God, speaking of that phenomenon, my 'favorite' example is of Soviet citizens ~~unrolling a banner in~~ supporting the Soviet right to assembly in 1977(?), and getting arrested for it.
How many months away are we from that here in the States, do you think? My bet is on ~12, but the timetable is already faster than I expected, so I might be a bit optimistic with that number.
Zero. The particular specific circumstance in your example hasn't happened yet (as far as we know...), but protesters are already getting, arrested, charged for RICO and/or terrorism, deported, etc. for nothing but their peaceful political speech.
Arrests for a meta-protest could happen tomorrow; it's all down to the random chance of some jackbooted thug's mood.
Yeah but I'm asking for the super-ironic version outlined in my example.
got a link about that banner stuff? sounds like an interesting read
Found what I think was the incident - no banner mentioned - maybe I'm confusing incidents.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/December-10/soviets-arrest-dissidents-on-united-nations-human-rights-day
incidents.
funny how that's a plural huh
Why do you want the US to be Authoritarian?
Want? On the contrary, I'm terrified of the route we're going down.
When I say "12 months may be optimistic", the potential optimism in that statement is that the resistance of US society and institutions may be overestimated in that timetable.