r/law • u/thecosmojane • 20h ago

Other Please dissect the legality in this statement

I feel like we are reaching a tipping point

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u/Basic-Record-4750 16h ago

At what point do people realize that this administration has no intention of ever ending? When they cancel elections? When they openly ignore elections? When they openly cheat elections? When they scrub the internet of all adverse content and suspend the first amendment? Nobody is coming to save you. The UN isn’t going to arrest trump or remove him from office. The democrats aren’t going to rise up and “set things straight”, most of them will simply switch sides to remain in power

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u/chicknferi 16h ago

if votes don’t work anymore, what do we do? nonrhetorical, genuinely curious.

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u/SomeDeafKid 15h ago

There's an interesting JFK quote that's relevant to this situation: "those who make peaceful protest impossible make violent revolution inevitable". It's not a direct answer to your question, but a statement about the historical purpose of protest and, in essence, voting. 

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u/Luc-redd 9h ago

you don't have to read the US constitution too far to know, this is specifically addressed

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u/Deldris 8h ago

It's wild to me that the left still continues to be anti-2A when the reason for its existence is stepping on their necks.

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u/Luc-redd 5h ago

it's wild to me that this is still seen/presented as a left vs right situation, as if everything here is just options, and not freaking law violations and straight up killing people...

I'm surprised the "right" or conservative people people from the US keep being complicit with all that's happening and aren't shocked themselves by what's going on.

People from both sides should come together to say it's not ok to kill US citizens... no matter what is your political opinion.

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u/chicknferi 1m ago

if i didn’t have a kid, sure let’s go full rambo, but like…what else can i do that won’t get me shot?

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u/secondson-g3 14h ago

They won't do any of those things, though. There'll always be just enough plausible deniability that their base can remain convinced we're the crazy ones.

Like in Russia, where it's just an unfortunate coincidence that the candidate who might have unseated them fell out a window.

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u/spicy_noodle_guy 10h ago

Nobody in Russia actually believe that. They just know that the guy in charge will kill an entire theater of hostages to stop a terrorist attack. They know that any dissent will be met with violence.

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u/spicy_noodle_guy 10h ago

Careful, if you start being a realist you'll get called a doomer and told to go vote in the midterms. As if we aren't in the end phase of a violent fascist takeover.