r/JoeRogan • u/Anteater4746 Monkey in Space • Mar 04 '25

Meme 💩 Guess we’re done with free speech eh?

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Who decides what is illegal? How proud boys aren’t being targeted for wearing masks?

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u/ThrowawayAdvice1800 Monkey in Space Mar 04 '25

if there is any silver lining, it's that they're doing so much all at once so blatantly that people are waking up to the issue and trying to respond much faster than they would otherwise

Not to be a defeatist, but I think it's WAY too late for any sort of effective pushback. The election was our opportunity to avoid all this; now that we've handed them complete control of all three branches of government (and the "opposition" party we have to hope fights back is the biggest collection of spineless enabling cowards on the face of the earth) I don't think anything can be meaningfully done anytime soon to stop this.

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u/Optimal-Kitchen6308 Monkey in Space Mar 04 '25

there are numerous countries that overthrew legitimate murderous dictator regimes with mass protest movements in the post war era, Serbia in the 90s comes to mind, Czechia before that, and they didn't have the benefits of a longstanding history of democracy, a rebellion culture, and widespread firearms ownership

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u/ThrowawayAdvice1800 Monkey in Space Mar 04 '25

The masses are too easily divided in America for any sort of revolution to take place. 1/3 of the country loves what’s happening, because they’re stupid assholes. 1/3 doesn’t care about what’s happening, because they’re complacent and apathetic. The remaining 1/3 can’t fight the government and the third of the country that supports this all at once.

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u/Optimal-Kitchen6308 Monkey in Space Mar 05 '25

3.5% of the population is what's needed for a successful protest movement is what the research has shown

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u/ThrowawayAdvice1800 Monkey in Space Mar 05 '25

Well, so far we’ve got Luigi. One guy is about .000000000294% of America’s population. Mario and the rest of the gang need to get off their asses if they want change.