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How do you suggest we do that?
We might look to France for inspiration
Brutal colonialism and installing an emperor within a couple of decades of demanding an end to authoritarianism? Slaughtering proto-socialists when they establish a commune in the capital? Treating Brown people with disdain and like perpetual foreigners? Demanding that African nations keep the bulk of their specie in our central bank? Cooperating with CIA operations where innocent people black bagged and tortured because they might have information on communism?
In a way that will realistically never happen in such a large country that arms it's police like they're military.
I'll happily arm up, call the people I train with, and get to work. unfortunately without large scale organization that simply isn't allowed by the alphabet squads because "domestic terrorism" or any number of made up bullshit claims (any leftist/progressive group. see also: black Panthers) the only thing that would result is 1-15 people dead in the street. Or more likely their beds, because they got raided at 2am and the cops just dropped grenades on their houses/apartments.
I do love how much I've been seeing ".ca" users clearly advocating that the US go through another revolution/civil war/domestic disturbance that causes the deaths of thousands, if not millions.
Why do Americans always jump to guns and shooting the place up? The next step to a disagreement with the government is hard protest, strikes, disruptions and disobedience. You either sit there doing nothing and whining that you don't like it or you think you have to go on a murder rampage. Neither of those are appropriate, but it does explain why there are so many mass shootings. You're brainwashed by your movies and media to think that's the next logical step.
Protest. ACTUAL protest. Not two No Kings parades in 11 months. Sustained pressure on the government is the way forward. Put down your guns and do what the rest of the world does.
We are protesting. There are continuous protests at ICE facilities all over the US. I personally have been going to the one in Otay Mesa. I can't go every day, but I'm there at least 3 days a week, and I managed 5 days a week over the holidays. The media isn't covering them. They are also severely undercounting the large protests.
Strikes require a strike fund or they fizzle once the strikers run out of savings, and who has savings these days? There's already a general strike ready to trigger once enough people commit.
Protests take time to organize. More frequent protests will be much smaller, and therefore easily ignored.
It turns out, organizing millions of people takes a substantial amount of time, effort, and resources.
"You have to protest!"
"no, not like that"
Many countries protest without guns and are very effective with it. I know you've been brainwashed your entire life to think guns are the solution but they're not.
I challenge the effectiveness of protesting in general. Doesn't seem like it has been effective at all since the 1960s.
Take the Just Stop Oil protests for example: all they have actually achieved is harsher punishments for jaywalking.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/25/protests-effective-history-impact