How about something from Project Wingman, featuring an energy-producing nation fighting for independence from an imperialist NATO-analogue

They also hold a strong western chauvinist line about colonialism and the national sovereignty of Indigenous people in North America.

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IIRC in China they type in pinyin and then basically have an autocorrect algorithm that generates the characters

Here’s the actual law. It’s just a system of restrictions for people doing business crimes and such. People don’t get banned from riding trains or getting good schooling opportunities for having low “credit scores” (something that is never mentioned in the actual law), but from refusing to do something a court has ordered them to do.

Being restricted from leaving the country is another one people bring up a lot, and it’s untranslated on that site, but according to Google Translate, it’s also for judgement defaulters, people who haven’t paid their taxes, and military deserters.

We’re in the rapids now. It feels like we’re sliding into open fascism, but I have hope that they overplayed their hand and tied themselves too tightly to the current establishment.

Very true…

Being Jesus, he’d forgive them

this is far too reddit an image but i couldnt find one without the glowing eyes

go back to /c/doomer

show trials for every NYT editor

Exactly

Very good point

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not discounting a mostly-“peaceful” (as in non-violent) revolution as something that can happen. My issue with this idea is that I feel like the US is, like you said, very different from anything ever dealt with before. Specifically, the systems in place. Could a toppling of the government in the vein of the February Revolution happen? Yes, absolutely. But I find it hard to believe the beast would just roll over and die. The US already has a chain of command in place in case the central government is destroyed, and even if there was no central leadership, I can’t help but feel that the military and the second military (police) would fight back.

I suppose this view is also influenced by my belief that there’s simply no way the military could be turned to even be neutral towards socialism. That belief is certainly being tested right now as discontent about dying for Israel grows, but I still think if something happened, the military would either splinter into a bunch of fash factions that all bomb the fuck out of the commies, or be firmly on the side of the Greatest Economic System. I fully recognize this might be informed by some lingering USAmerican brainworms about the “power” of the US military, though.

Very open to hearing counterpoints to this (though I think saying this might not be necessary? I’m not used to online platforms where good-faith discussions happen )

Anything works, really.