• DandomRude@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    History provides many examples of peoples who have shaken off oppression largely without resorting to violence: one of the most prominent examples is India, which freed itself from brutal British oppression largely through mass civil resistance - and this was a colonial regime of violence that the British had established there.

    What I mean, however, is that there is currently only comparatively mild repression in the US, but that will change, which the regime is obviously working on.

    In short: now or never, seems to me to be the motto. Now would also be the right time in terms of public sentiment, because people are angry.

    Nevertheless, I cannot say how likely it is that US citizens will use the time they have left – probably not very likely, but it is certainly possible.