• KittyCat@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    “And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?.. The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation… We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

    Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

    • Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      8 days ago

      While I agree with the spirit, I have to stop you here

      But had understood they had nothing left to lose:
      https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-threatens-to-use-insurrection-act-to-put-down-protests-in-minneapolis

      You should be asking yourself why doesn’t he just do it? What does he need to threaten to escalate? What is he waiting on?

      Clearly, he’s antagonizing because he wants the military to carry out what his illiterate army of Nazis is doing. What you have to lose now is that you would be handing him exactly what he wants.

      It may be inevitable, but what do you accomplish by making it any easier on him?

      Make him keep begging for it. Make him keep showing the whole world what a pathetic greasy little orange shit stain he and his storm troopers are.

      Let history remember how pathetic and disgustingly passive aggressive the most “powerful” man in the world and his army really were in their war against America.