> So unless you're willing to become a literal terrorist organization and die with a bunch of your friends in an uphill battle (not technically unwinnable, but at least lopsided and the casualties will be tremendous), the only option is to cave.

Honestly, the internet has made folks so lazy. It's very ironic that the most "revolutionary" act taken recently (January 6) was actually done by the far-right. Yeah: if you believe in something, you need to actually get out of the basement, grab a gun, and storm the Capitol. And if you take it all the way, a lot of people are going to die. That's how revolution works. Unless we're all LARPing?

But Americans/Westerners (left, right, center) are way too comfortable for a revolution, so for people that are, or have been, actual dissidents (think Arab Spring, or IRA, or ETA, or whatever), this is all just a big meme.

> When the US government decides to label you “terrorist organization”

We really need laws removing the power from the President to unilaterally declare organizations terrorists. At least not long term without their ability to fight the designation in court.

(Same for tariffs. There is no case where one needs emergency power to tariff or sanction anything. If you need to conduct urgent police action, court-ordered asset freezes are plenty.)

Weddings if you’re lucky. They’ll also murder 150+ girls at school.

As a person living in the place you're mentioning, I have to confidently state that you've been brainwashed

I see you get your news from the internet.

> which will go as far as blowing up weddings in your neighborhood to stop you.

And in case the wedding reference wasn't explicit enough, this isn't just Trump, it was also Obama.

It pains me to summon the specter of "both sides" because the Republicans are so much worse. But the majority of national level Democrats aren't inherently good. They are just less bad (and on some issues they can be close to equally as bad).

> not technically unwinnable

Most should take those odds over giving up another inch of freedom.

> you are now targeted by the most potent state actor on earth

Well, it is a mafia. See the international court investigating war crimes is also targeted by the orange clown-brigade mafia.

> the only option is to cave

Objectively speaking you are correct, but I don't think this has to be the case. For instance, why is that orange mafia so powerful? That is the thing that has to be fixed on every level, not just by taking back what their billionaires stole from us.

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