Right now, they know that openly ordering a massacre on protesters will result in the military turning on them. And the protesters know that if we push them too far, we’ll be the first casualties in a civil war that could turn literally fire-in-the-sky nuclear overnight.

You do realize we’re trying to fight back against the largest military on planet Earth, right? Carefully calculated risk assessment and lawfare is our option right now. Eventually, it’ll be like two tectonic plates grinding at a fault line. Something will slip. And when it does, it’ll be an earth-shaking catastrophe. All of us are just… waiting. Waiting for the other shoe to finally drop.

Right now, most people I know here are drafting exit and escape plans because we are that scared of our own fucking neighbors. If you know anyone in Eastern Europe, ask them how things worked out for their families when the USSR broke up. And promise me you’ll do something nice for them afterwards, because digging out that PTSD means you owe them for bringing it up at all.

Honestly? Justified assessment. I gave up on making excuses for this empire and its lies a decade ago. We were never the good guys. And if we ever were, it was by accident.

If you see an American flag, I am asking you, as an American, fucking burn it. Cut all ties with every American corporation. Never buy anything made in the US again. Never watch another American movie. The only language that my oppressors can even fucking speak at this point is Corporatese.

Boycott, Divest, Sanction. Starve them out. Those of us at the very bottom will survive, somehow. We’re humans. As a species, we’re cockroaches, just like you; we can survive anything, it’s kinda the story of humankind. If our oppressors run out of cash, they’ll start falling apart. That might be the only way we’ll get a chance to finish them off.

America is too big to govern like an autocracy. It can’t be like North Korea. It’s already cracking under the strain of trying. Don’t be a scab, stick to the boycotts.

Yank here. I would rebut by pointing out that Canada has bloodied its hands on Native Canadians and participated in American imperialism as a toady. But honestly? It would nakedly be the pot calling the kettle black. And the kettle’s at least started scrubbing off the char.

I plan to keep fighting my government, any way I can. But I feel so isolated and desperately outmanned and outgunned. Other nations that have successfully overthrown their oppressors didn’t have to battle the surveillance and military industrial complex up close and in its own house. As awful as our abusers-in-chief have been to the world, people tend to forget that the first ones they every abused were us. It’s the difference between growing up next door to the abusive psychotic gun-waving alcoholic father and being their child. He doesn’t even have to get off the couch to beat us.

It feels like suicide to fight back, but the few of us who have humanity left are doing it anyway, even though we know that we don’t have a chance. Not unless a chunk of our military decides to exercise an iota of independent thought and remember that part of their oath and a heap of our national myth was meant to give them permission to shoot the President himself if it came down to it.

Please, save us. I’m begging you, save us however you can. We’re already suffering. It’s going to get worse no matter what we do at this point, so fight them while we have time. Please.