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I know. Ditching fascists can take upwards of two decades and effective loss of sovereignty for almost a century.
I’m sorry it’s your turn now. But you need to get to it. It doesn’t get better with time.
You say that as if there aren’t massive protests in the US.
There's a lot of people that talk a big game here.
"Just go in and end this shit already, will you?"
I see the same message parroted 100 times over, but not a single person has a realistic notion for what to do. Should I, an average citizen in the Midwest, buy a bunch of guns, bombs, whatever, and just go assassinate the president of the US, arguably the best protected individual in the world? Let's say that through some miracle I do that, then what? Couch fucker takes the ~~reigns~~ reins, SCOTUS continues to enable fascism, and Congress is still fascist controlled. Am I supposed to just keep popping off people through the line of succession and also take out at least two supreme court justices, a handful of house members and a couple senators?
We can resist, protest, and fight back against this, but it's not something that has a quick solution. It's us citizens vs the US government, Russia, many State level governments, billionaires, and by proxy a huge disinformation and propaganda campaign.
Reins, not reigns. Common homophone error but the phrase comes from the name of the straps used to control a horse.
But in this case either of the homophones works.
No, reigns would be incorrect.
It was supposed to be a joke (but only a semi-joke), because 'reign' is what monarchs and authoritarians do.
Which is why that error in diction shows up so often.
I definitely knew it was reins, but I don't know that I knew that it is spelled differently than reigns.
Unfortunately, he would also be reigning, so I wasn't to far off for both spelling and context.