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> If Americans were deeply, deeply bothered by the government spying on them, they'd have burned down this government by now. Right now stuff is happening that

> If Americans were deeply, deeply bothered by the government spying on them, they'd have burned down this government by now. Right now stuff is happening that does deeply bothers Americans, and what do they do? They walk around with signs, they file legal papers, and maybe some other forms of peaceful, albeit useless, protest... a lot of other countries truly would be burning down the government right now if something like Elon happened there, but so far America has just been saying they don't want it, in as many ways as possible, but while still continuing to fully let it happen.

fshr 2y ago
Can you give an example of a country where you think the population would do something violent or upending if they had an Elon?
- LoganDark 2y ago
  There are quite a few countries out there that don't just do peaceful protest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coups_and_coup_attempts_since_2010 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coups_and_coup_attempt... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_riots#2020s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_riots#2020s In the US it's looking like the main aggressors are Trump supporters and most of everyone else is not actually out for blood, just Peacefully Unhappy. Elon is 100% out for blood, he's practically a modern-day Nazi. On many social media platforms you can see a lot of people from the UK, EU, etc. being totally bewildered that all the US is doing right now is useless peaceful protests. There are also a bunch of people potentially even from the US who post things like: https://old.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/1j822ah/cmv_most_protests_do_nothing_in_the_united_states/ https://old.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/1j822ah/cmv_m... Maybe eventually something will happen that changes things, or maybe eventually things will reach a tipping point, but right now at least they are still stuck in some peaceful protest limbo.

fshr 2y ago

Can you give an example of a country where you think the population would do something violent or upending if they had an Elon?

LoganDark 2y ago
There are quite a few countries out there that don't just do peaceful protest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coups_and_coup_attempts_since_2010 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coups_and_coup_attempt... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_riots#2020s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_riots#2020s In the US it's looking like the main aggressors are Trump supporters and most of everyone else is not actually out for blood, just Peacefully Unhappy. Elon is 100% out for blood, he's practically a modern-day Nazi. On many social media platforms you can see a lot of people from the UK, EU, etc. being totally bewildered that all the US is doing right now is useless peaceful protests. There are also a bunch of people potentially even from the US who post things like: https://old.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/1j822ah/cmv_most_protests_do_nothing_in_the_united_states/ https://old.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/1j822ah/cmv_m... Maybe eventually something will happen that changes things, or maybe eventually things will reach a tipping point, but right now at least they are still stuck in some peaceful protest limbo.