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[–] Monkeyshinerbot3000 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

How much of this shit do you think the American people will tolerate? Actually a serious question, at some point I do see the nation giving the media the backlash they deserve.

[–] noob_tube 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I think most Americans will either go the camps "trusting the plan" or to "flatten the curve".

And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.

― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

[–] Monkeyshinerbot3000 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Do you think the internet would have helped them then? I know its a hypothetical question but things have certainly changed since. I do believe that maybe we can avert that outcome this time around if we can at least see it coming.