I’m wondering if I should just delete lemmy to stay under the radar. 🤔 (I’m a US Citizen currently residing in the US, and moving out of the country is not really an option)
I feel so conflicted on this. On one hand, this is kinda like giving in to authoritarianism, but on the other hand, dissenting is kinda dangerous. 😓
I mean, its hard to calm down after reading the news about Mahmoud Khalil. Sure, online comments is not the same as a protest, but I feel like its only a matter of time before they start digging through the internet.
Consider this: Like the “Storm Area 51” meme where they said “they can’t arrest all of us!” if all of us keep dissenting and never stop, well… they can’t arrest all of us.
Literally 45 million people are registered Democrats, and while the USA has the largest prison population per capita, that tops out at 2 million. There’s about 1.5 million Law Enforcement Officers in the USA. The US military is about 3 million people, and a bunch of them are stationed worldwide, not here at home.
So tops they could have 4.5 million people trying to arrest/disappear 45 million people. They currently don’t even have the facilities to hold that many.
I repeat, they cannot arrest all of us.
Also, all the massively democrat areas are… the big cities… the economic powerhouses of the country. They’d be literally shooting themselves in the foot and getting rid of all their competent knowledge workers. They would have to massively increase immigration to replace them. Even Elon Musk doesn’t think it’s worth training the dumbfuck MAGA crowd, he wants to import Indian labor.
Nobody said that doing what’s right would be easy. Or safe. Only that it’s worth doing.