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The half heartedness of the military in this parade suggests that they will be half hearted in their enforcement of the regime too. This would make it much easier to resist and overthrow the regime (or at least enforce rule by mass civil disobedience) as large sections of the military are likely to make only a token effort to suppress it.

Stalin was still a capitalist. What he did was eliminate the competition in a particular violent way.

The National Guard should release all arrested protesters, return to base and tell the Governor of California that they are "reporting for duty". If not, they are traitors (already before but then even more so).

Yes

It's much harder to take pot-shots from the side of you are even slightly on the left. The elite won't give you a microphone.

It's not just reactionaries though, it's the entire political and media establishment.

Time to make that a reality.

The issue with that oa that they would then lose the support of the bourgeoisie and so could get coup-ed.

What he really needs to do is kill Donald Trump and install JDVance as a puppet of the tech oligarchy.

I'm not saying to kill them necessarily but certainly remove them from their positions, jail them for any crimes they have committed, seize their assets ect.

Well, we need to purge every person associated with the Heritage Foundation after the revolution.

And set up a conflict between the bourgeoisie and the Trump administration.