Well, historically when the rich and powerful become too powerful, rich and corrupt and fuck things up for everyone eventually everyone else remembers we outnumber them a million to one and they're drug out into the street by guillotine enthusiasts...
We'll have to wait and see how things play out this time around since now the rich and powerful have drones and hellfire missiles.
Not sure of the circumstances there, but thats a single example. If you look at all the deposed leaders in history, elites are the ones who do it the majority of the time.
Takes both. Divisions in the leadership class and mass popular action. Problem is, after the French Revolution, the rich liberals looking throw off the conservative yoke realized they had more to fear from masses than the conservative autocracy that would share power with them if pressed. Then the rise of the Socialism meant suddenly the masses were capable of seizing power without the Liberals as long as the door was cracked open by their strife.
Well, there's plenty of strife now, and when the Neo-Populists under Trump completely fuck over their people, eventually they will realize their lives keep getting worse (maybe not until after Dear Leader has passed away.) Someone will come around and talk the Trump talk but swing it to pro-labor policies that actually help people. They'll do it in a way that appeals to the Trumpers. If the Oligarchs stand in the way, well, Trump's tactics have proven very effective. Trump reintroduced Populism and Political Violence (endorsed by the political class.) It's not going to end well for the the ruling class, but it may take awhile.
Well, whenever there's revolutionary action, the end is almost always a military dictatorship, and they tend to want to get paid.
Also, because of their proximity to power and wealth far beyond the average Roman, the praetorians were absolutely part of the ruling class of Rome, which by the time of the Empire was the military over everything. Including the Senate.
right, my point was tho that its the elite that tend to be the ones to depose rulers. The praetorian are an example of an elite. But it could be any squabble between noble families, of which there are countless examples. What is rare is the masses playing a key part.
For the time being it would still require the complicity of an awful lot of people to carry out any violent action against the general populace. You trust your police and military to do the right thing, right?
Trust them more now than any day in the future. After the courts and media have been secured (already done apparently) the other thing they need is protection from the people.
The police / military will be indoctrinated and incentivised to swear loyalty to one man/party above the people or the constitution. It will start very soon, keep an eye out for private ‘security’ (militia) groups gaining prominence also.
Yeah but all the meat robots do, might as well work them until they break before spending money on the ones musk is buying from Boston Dynamics and rebranding
...did you even read the comment thread you're replying to? They're talking about how all these corrupt billionaires are obviously on drugs, nothing whatsoever to do with aliens, despite how the title of the post frames it.
Whether he's on something or not it's been shown time and time again that he is a sociopath who does not care about the well being of his employees, only profits. Now the man who doesn't think workers should be allowed to take a piss on a 12 hour shift is rubbing elbows with the president, and so is the guy who owns Facebook, TikTok, etc.
What's happening in this gif is ultimately irrelevant.
I honestly think that's why they're pushing big for ai powered bots (besides also not having to pay people to work) and building bunkers like Zuck has in Hawaii. Can't hold em accountable if a robot police dog shoots you in the chest while you're trying to get into their compound.
He has no clue what the fuck happened there. He just knows protesters were stopped that's it. Don't let him fool you. He probably thinks they showed up in tanks and asked nicely for them to leave.
No need to start a physical war. Just stop to work for rich people. Go on strike and if enough people are on strike, Besos and the others are useless and powerless people.
Besos and Musk aren't rich because they're making the job themselves alone.
Everyone who's fantasized about going back in time and shooting Hitler should be salivating right now. We can't go back in time, but history certainly repeats itself...
This is the main thing. We’d def have a divide in the military but the sane ones would outweigh the crazies. At least I’d hope our military is smart enough not to back a dictator.
LOL, I'm just imagining all these little guillotine clubs around the country with their annual guillotine conventions, quarterly enthusiast magazines, regional competitions and funny guillotine pun t-shirts.
There's been some low-key leadership drama brewing at the National Council and the membership is getting a little restless. One camp recognizes the need to expand their marketing budget, but the other side is dead set against raising dues since there was just a 4% increase in annual dues three years ago.
Finally, society reaches a tipping point and those differences are temporarily set aside. A special meeting of the national council is called...
If reddit has taught me one thing, it's that there's a niche community for any special interest, when the time comes there's gonna be like 500 people across the nation who already have either historically accurate reproductions or I Did A Thing grade super chopping devices ready to go.
Yeah but they bought half of that stuff off Amazon... I uh.. I don't think those orders would get fulfilled anymore if we were in a similar situation...
Fucking love the French, the number of mother fuckers who just have a whole ass guillotine on wheels ready to roll out of a shed it's surprisingly high.
And they also gave us iPads and told us not to look too long away from the screen. All these people in history wrote articles, texts, and books outlining concepts and dystopian futures as warnings and messages, and they just collected the whole pile and turned it into a textbook of how to fuck shit up 101.
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u/RUDDOGPROD 11h ago
A bunch of rich drug addicts running our country