Post Ar3NlWZSDNXdHeBEhM by Canevecchio@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #Ar3Ku3TfS87fnPqka0 by interfluidity@zirk.us
       2025-02-12T20:02:28Z
       
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       1. Cut social services to the point people who’ve relied upon them become desperate;2. Protests that can be characterized as disorderly, perhaps even violent, riots emerge;3. Use the riots as pretext for a crushing response that deters future opposition of any sort.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ar3LPpbwXlHY3YsAz2 by eARCwelder@mastodon.social
       2025-02-12T20:08:03Z
       
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       @interfluidity 4. Hollow out the federal government, especially the security services, and reduce military morale.5. Ruin the payments system and create enemies worldwide.6. ???7. Stable autocracy
       
 (DIR) Post #Ar3LbBVDUYCp8Z8kEq by scott@carfree.city
       2025-02-12T20:10:08Z
       
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       @interfluidity you’re an optimist to say step 3 will merely be crushing enough to deter opposition and not full on genocide.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ar3NlWZSDNXdHeBEhM by Canevecchio@mastodon.social
       2025-02-12T20:34:21Z
       
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       @interfluidity How’s that apocryphal quote from Admiral Yamamoto go—something about waking a sleeping giant and filling him with a terrible resolve? Sounds more like something a Hollywood scriptwriter would come up with than a Japanese admiral on the verge of committing his country’s armed forces to an existential conflict, but be that as it may, it does seem an appropriate response to the boasting of MAGA chancers who are so obviously a couple of cans short of a six-pack.