As the president’s attacks are met with a distinct lack of resistance, critics warn that freedom of the press is eroding in plain sight
The media surrendered in advance
They were purchased. The NYT is the best example. They threw away a century of prestige to become the Post with more readers.
That was not surrendering, that was actively participating
the really horrifying part is the number of people who will believe anything, everything, and only what he tells them to believe
Well, the point in time where it was maybe possible to defend against Trump and his cronies normally or legally is already over. Now they have gathered too much power and also already pretty much operate above the law. The Supreme Court is on their side I guess, not on the side of the constitution or the laws anymore. So it’ll only get worse from now on, and quickly. Only regime-approved media will soon be left over, i.e. media distributing the regime’s propaganda even further. And they will soon throw all of their opponents into concentration camps, not just “illegal immigrants”. That’s just the low-hanging fruit they needed for initially starting building concentration camps and expanding other jail space and their ICE army massively. Technically they would only need jail space for themselves and all supporters of this fascist regime, but they will jail all others they can get their hands on instead.
You will have an actual fight on your hands if you want to revert all this. Either just from the inside, or both from the inside and the outside once they start waging war on former allies like Canada or Denmark (Greenland). You should probably create local communities of people who are ready to help each other vs. ICE raids. Create logistical and resource problems for them. Make it hard and costly for them to destroy people’s lives. If you let them kidnap too many people, you will not have enough people for resistance anymore.
Trump is attacking everything and everyone is either helping him or ignoring him.
Is that a surprise when he owns the courts?
This could be an opportunity for decentralized applications such as the Fediverse, which are not so easy to bring into line. But I fear that the apathy of the majority will make it impossible for people to recognize this alternative, even now. They will not take action on their own, even if it only means showing a little initiative and perhaps giving up some convenience. Instead, people will continue to be lulled into complacency and pretend that everything is fine, thereby forming the widely visible majority that serves as an excuse for their individual irresponsibility.
This vicious circle is the most frustrating thing: All this is only possible because the majority allows it to happen.
That were Putin’s babysteps
Using DEI is often a good thing, but DEI president is not
