• DrakeAlbrecht
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    If you can’t beat 'em, rig the elections.

    If that doesn’t work, throw 'em in jail.

    Straight out of the autocrats’ playbook.

    • OwOarchist@pawb.social
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      If you can’t beat 'em, rig the elections.

      If that doesn’t work, throw 'em in jail.

      And if that doesn’t work, start prepping your military for the inevitable civil war.

      • LemmyBruceLeeMarvin@lemmy.ml
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        Or buld out your own new Independent Criminal Enterprise army that is anonymous, removes their license plates, can sweep anyone off the street based on profiling, whisks them away to a private for profit detention center without due process and answers only to dear leader

        Oh vait

        • Mirshe
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          Don’t forget “is getting their own airline operating 24/7 specifically for deportations and transporting people to international blacksites”.