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A heavily militarized Rambo circle-jerking police force more than happy to unleash the dogs of war is a pretty good deterrent.
pretty much every cop is a right wing fashy thug, too.
Have to be.
anyone else would be too educated, too moral, and to much a threat against the institutional corruption.
Will the police side with Trump if the CEO of Ford, Boeing or McDonalds support the strike? (on behalf of the owners)
But even if it is only one billionaire, there is no need to confront the police. Unlike before people don't have to meet but can organize online. If everybody stays home, there is no threat from the police.
Besides, why would the police side with a Russian asset?
It doesn't make sense. All the rich old men grew up with Russia being bad. Just the president being compromised should make them act. The president actively dismantling their power in the world is beyond accepable. And yet, nothing happens.
They grew up with communism being bad. Russia stopped being (nominally) communist a generation ago. The greedheads are fine with a fascist kleptocratic Russia.
And a president controlled by Russia? That doesn't make sense.
The problem is that to do anything of consequence, those people need to leave their homes and take action. And they'd rather juat sit at home and continue "organizing" online...
No, they don't have to leave for consequences. If they don't leave and don't go to work, civilization will stop and Trump cannot continue. Then if there is a joined demand for a new election, it either gets ugly if Trump tries to sit it out or a new election will happen.
But there needs to be a billionaire leader who pays for the expenses because people on their own are stuck in their routines.
What expenses? If everyone is on a general strike, there's nowhere to spend money.
And honestly, your suggestion sounds like we're trying to trade one evil billionaire dictator for another evil billionaire dictator on the off chance that the new one won't destroy the global economy as thoroughly. That's not actually an improvement.
People have to be convinced to go on a general strike. USA spent $5 billion in Ukraine, so with 10 times the population it will take $50 billion to get things going.
You always trade billionaires. People don't act on their own so there is always essentially one rich group fighting another.
The fascinating thing is that there is no billionaire group opposing Trump. So there must be a convincing argument to keep everybody in line.
Cops will absolutely side with Trump over billionaires.
Trumps giving cops everything they want.. which is a country where they can do whatever the fuck they want, without repercussion. They'll fight and die for him against anyone and anything else.
Because there's a way for them to make money out of it.
There must be diversity among billionaires.
Also most of them are losing money and will lose even much more money. If it is all about money they must do something now.
You perceive your place in the world relative to others. Billionaires have reached the level where there is literally no amount of money that will make their lives better than they are. So the only way left for them to feel they are making progress is to make everybody else’s life worse. That’s what they are doing now. As more and more people in the world in the world become food insecure, homeless and scared, they can continue to feel like their lives are getting better. Trump is helping them acheive that - the amount of money they are losing doesn’t meaningfully impact them.
If China takes over, China will most likely end hunger and they will dominate all markets. Even if billionaires thrive on misery, they will not thrive for long if the USA declines.